Garden Calendar - March
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March sees spring bulbs out in force with days often being bright and sunny, if a little windy. Buds are appearing all over the garden, as are the weeds!
Be warned that frosts are still likely so be careful not to put anything tender at risk. Now is a good time to pay a little attention to any crowded perennials in your borders, dividing and replanting as necessary.
The lawn is likely to show real signs of growth this month. Start mowing with blades at their highest settings and slowly lower over the next few weeks to prevent stressing your lawn. Now is a great time to start making repairs to any worn or damaged areas of your lawn.
Fruit and Vegetables
- Prepare ground for sowing by removing weeds and applying a general fertiliser such as Growmore Garden Fertiliser
- Start to sow veg seeds outside including carrots, radishes and lettuces
- Plant out onions from sets
- Plant sprouted first early potatoes
- Feed tree fruit and soft fruit bushes and mulch with organic Farmyard Manure
- For an early crop of strawberries, cover established plants now with cloches and protect the plants from slugs using Slug Buster
- Keep the vegetable and fruit beds weed free
Jobs Around the garden
- Prune bushes and shrubs to encourage new growth
- Sow hardy annual flower seeds outside such as calendulas, cornflowers, love-in-a-mist and californian poppies
- Sow Sweet Peas
- Plant Gladioli corms and Lily bulbs around the garden borders
- Plant a spring container
- Clear debris and old stems from beds and borders as well as weeds and follow with good mulch of compost or bark
- Divide and replant congested perennials
- Dead head any early spring flowers and bulbs as they die off
- Now is the best time to move deciduous trees and shrubs
- Start to mow lawn regularly, start with blades on the highest setting
- Remove weeds and reseed lawns if needed
- Spring clean paths and driveways removing stubborn weeds
- Check/set up water butts
