The Canvey Island Magazine's April 2014 Edition by Essex Business & Leisure Ltd

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April 2014 Edition

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Hi there, Welcome to our April edition. The dry weather has finally arrived, let’s hope it lasts. It’s lovely now the sun has started to shine and we can get into the garden. It’s the month of Easter, and many of us will be doing DIY and spending time with our families, Stay and play will be having an Easter Egg Hunt on Friday, Sunday and Monday for the children with egg give away’s. There is no additional charge for this. Please see our center pages for details.

We had a fantastic response this month with our quizzes, if you wasn’t lucky this month then please try again. Quizzes this month, you can win a pair of tickets to see The Sound of Music at The Place Theatre, and for the children you can win a Party for 10 children at the popular Stay & Play children’s indoor play area in Basildon. www.stayplay.co.uk 01268 491511. Last month’s Quiz winners were Carole Watts from Kollum road, Canvey Island, who won a party for 10 children at stay and play and Mrs J Palmer, Hallet Road Canvey Island, who won 2 tickets to see Soul Legends at The Cliffs Pavillion.

We have a great gardening section for you with everything you need for a perfect garden, so please take a look and use your local businesses. Danny Green’s fund is our sponsored charity again this month and there is a monthly update for you to read on page 16.

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Community Safety Update Page 26

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Gardening Section

• Consider planting flowers which may be dried for winter arrangements. Some of the best are strawflower, statice, celosia, and globe amaranth. • Do not restrict yourself to buying plants in bloom. Petunias that bloom in the pack are often rootbound or overgrown and, after planting, will actually be set back and cease to bloom for about a month. Plants without blossoms will actually bloom sooner and will grow better as well. • To extend the blooming period of gladiolus, plant early, middle and late season selections each week until the middle of June. Choose a sunny location and plant the corms four to six inches deep and six to eight inches apart. • Scatter annual poppy seeds in flower borders. The fine seeds need no covering. The plants grow rapidly and provide colorful flowers in early summer.

April’s Monthly Gardening Tips Spring may be showing little evidence but daffodils and tree blossoms are starting to bloom. Expect the inevitable ‘April showers’ this month but sunny albeit chilly days too. It’s an exciting month, with indoor-sown seeds well into growth, and it’s also time to start sowing outdoors. Here’s a few tips you may want to consider. • Consider planting flowers which may be dried for winter arrangements. Some of the best are strawflower, statice, celosia, and globe amaranth. • Do not restrict yourself to buying plants in bloom. Petunias that bloom in the pack are often rootbound or overgrown and, after planting, will actually be set back and cease to bloom for about a month. Plants without blossoms will actually bloom sooner and will grow better as well.

• In a sunny location with poor soil, plant nasturtiums for a colorful show. They require warm soil to sprout and start blooming in about 50 days. Too much water and fertilizer produces excess leaves and few flowers. • When chrysanthemums show signs of life, dig up and divide large plants. Discard woody portions and replant divisions 12 to 15 inches apart. • Cut flower stalks back to the ground on daffodils, hyacinths, and other spring flowering bulbs as the flowers fade. Do not cut the foliage until it dies naturally. The leaves are necessary to produce strong bulbs capable of reflowering. • Don’t add organic matter to the soil when planting trees. It does not help the plant become established and it may create conditions that encourage the roots to stay inside the planting hole instead of spreading to surrounding soil. Do dig a large planting hole, but fill it with the original soil removed from it.

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Accountants Need an Accountant? 26 Airport & Seaport Transfers Airports 2000 22 Blinds Specialist Home Smart Blinds 10 Marts Blinds 25 Bouncy Castles Go Wild Bouncy Castles 19 Car Breakers Canvey Auto Breakers 14 Car Repairs Canvey Auto Repair 27 Cooters 9 Cash 4 Clothes EZ Recycling Back Cover Childrens Play Area Stay & Play 14 & 18 Cleaning Specialist Molly Maids 25 Webbs Cleaning Services 4 Courier Deliveries & Removals D & R Clearance & Couriers 4 Cycle Shop Les’ Cycles 2 Dog Grooming Fur Kutz 2 Pampering Pooches 1 Dog Microchipping Dog’s Trust 3 Drain Specialist Flushed Away 19 Driveway Cleaning Webbs Cleaning Services 10 Driveway Sealing Sealing Technique 13 Driving School Easy 2 Pass Driving School 19 Electrician Lewis McCarthy 9 RT Electrical 4