Gardeners Calendar - March
General Garden Care
- Keep an eye out for pests
- Mulch the borders
- Start to cut the grass with blades set high
- Plant hardy perennials
- Plant roses
- Move shrubs
- Sow, Sow, Sow
Vegetables and Herbs
- Prepare seedbeds for direct sowing
- Sow Tomatoes, peppers, globe artichoke, lettuce, cabbage, cauliflowers under glass
- Plant out vegetables already hardening off in the cold frame
- Harden off early sowings of hardy vegetables
- Begin regular direct sowings of beetroot, broad beans, cabbage, endive, lettuce, parsnips, peas, radish, spinach, spring onions, turnips,
- Plant early potatoes, onion sets, asparagus crowns
- Feed winter lettuce
- Keep an eye out for pests and disease
- Keep weeding with a hoe
- Harvest spring greens, chicory
- Prepare seedbeds for winter crops
- Prepare a runner bean trench
- Prepare a celery trench
- Sow hardy herbs outside such as chervil, chives, dill, fennel, marjoram, coriander, parsley
- Plant out new mint, French tarragon, thyme and rosemary plants which are difficult to raise from seed.
- Divide chives
Perennials
- Cut down any growth left for winter interest
- Take basal cuttings of achillea, anthemis, delphinium, gypsophila, lupins
- Plant new plants
- Divide primula after flowering
- Divide overgrown summer flowering perennials
- Protect Delphiniums and hostas from slug damage
- Get stakes in early for a more natural look
Annuals and Bedding
- Sow and plant out sweet peas if weather permits
- Sow hardy annuals direct
- Harden off hardy annuals sown under glass
- Sow half hardy annuals under glass
Trees and Shrubs
- Move evergreen shrubs
- Feed winter flowering heather
- Plant bare rooted trees [last chance]
- Prune rose bushes
- Prune Eucalyptus
- Prune Dogwoods
- Prune Shrubby Willow
- Prune late flowering shrubs
- Layer shrubs for new plants
- Plant bare rooted hedges [last chance]
Fruit
- Protect peaches, nectarines and cherries from frost damage
- Protect peaches, nectarines and almonds from peach leaf curl
- Hand pollinate peaches and nectarines if there's no sign of pollinating insects
- Feed all fruit with potash
- Spray apples and pears to prevent scab
- Tie in blackberries and loganberries
- Prune autumn flowering raspberries and gooseberries if not yet done
- Plant bare root plants [last chance]
- Cloche strawberries for early fruit
Under Glass
- Clean up the glass for maximum light
- Ventilate on sunny days
- Keep an eye out for pests and diseases
- Feed and water regularly
- Prune and pot on tender perennials such as pelergoniums
- Take cuttings from overwintered tender perennials such as fuchsias, heliotrope and pelergoniums
- Harden off hardy annuals
- Pot on seedlings sown last month
- Sow Vegetables such as Tomatoes, peppers, aubergine, globe artichoke, lettuce, cabbage, cauliflowers.
- Sow half hardy annuals
- Sow tender bedding plants such as salvias and gazanias
- Start of Cannas
- Lay out grow bags to warm up
- Hand pollinate forced strawberries if required, feed with potash
Lawns
- Get the lawn mower serviced
- Start mowing the lawn with blades set high
- Feed the lawn
- Scarify
- Repair damage to edges
- Finish preparing soil for new lawn
Bulbs
- Take cuttings for Dahlias
- Deadhead daffodils
- Plant snowdrops in the green
- Plant summer flowering bulbs if weather permits
- Start of Cannas under glass
- Plant out bulbs that were forced inside
- Plant begonia and gloxinia tubers
- Feed and water hippeastrums after flowering
Containers
- Plant up containers with hardy shrubs, trees, climbers perennials and annuals
- Add water retaining gel/crystals
- Feed with slow release fertiliser
Ponds
- Take netting off ponds
- Test out any pumps or lighting systems
- Begin feeding fish, little and often
Climbers
- Plant new climbers
- Prune late flowering clematis [last chance]
- Prune climbing roses
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