The month of March seems to have sprung up on me from nowhere. Don’t misunderstand me, it is a welcome surprise but it reminds me that now the gardening season really starts No time for dilly dallying now. Time to get stuck in and motivated, To help you all along, here are a few jobs to keep you motivated and organised
Jobs to do………in March
- Continue to plan what you intend to grow this year and order seeds before your favourites become unavailable
- Harden off and transplant autumn sown cauliflowers and cabbages
- Finish digging all of the vegetable beds, cultivating the soil weekly to produce a fine tilth in the soil
- Finish any construction work that you may have left to do as your time will be needed more for the plants in the coming months
- Lift the remaining leeks and parsnips that have been left in the ground
- Continue to chit your potatoes in a frost free place to encourage strong shoots
- Warm areas of your soil with clear polythene, carpet, cardboard or black plastic
- Check that shallots in the ground are still firmly in place and not been pulled up by the birds.
- Continue to save the cardboard tubes from toilet and kitchen rolls and newspapers to make your own biodegradable pots for seed sowing next month
- Harden off vegetables that were sown in January or February in the cold frame
- Make sure pots and seed trays are cleaned ready for sowing
- Prune fruit trees while still dormant such as apple, pear, currant and gooseberry
What to sow………Indoors (Heated or Unheated)
- Aubergines
- Broad Beans
- Lettuce
- Peas
- Chillies
- Parsley
- Melons
- Celery
- Onions and shallot seeds
- Kohl Rabi
- Kale
- Tomatoes
- Cucumbers
- Brussels Sprouts
- Winter salads
- Summer Cabbages
- Summer Cauliflowers
- Calabrese
- Early variety peas
- Parsley (curly leafed)
- French beans
- Leeks
- Spinach
- Radish
What to sow………Outdoors (Under Protection)
- Spinach
- Salad Leaves
- Lettuce
- Rocket
- Brussels Sprouts
- Sprouting Broccoli
- Red Cabbage
- Summer Cabbage
- Autumn Cabbage
- Tomatoes
- Early Cauliflower
- Leeks
- Calabrese
- Spring Onions
- Herbs
- Radish
- Mangetout
- Calabrese
- Early Peas
- Early Carrots
- Early Beetroot
- Broccoli (Summer variety)
- Broad beans
- Onions
- Parsnips
What to plant………in March
- Plant rhubarb sets
- Fruit bushes
- Jerusalem artichokes
- Asparagus crowns
- Bare root container-grown trees
- Horseradish
- Strawberries
- Early potatoes
- Garlic
- Onion sets
- Shallots
Crops in season now
- Broccoli (Sprouting)
- Spring onions
- Spring Cabbage
- Spring Cauliflower
- Chicory
- Endive
- Jerusalem Artichokes
- Kale
- Lettuce
- Parsnips
- Spinach
Happy diggin’
Debb
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