March has quickly come around meaning Spring is on the way! This month we can finally start planting some colour into the garden.
Flower Garden
- Plant container grown trees, shrubs, climbers and roses
- Prune and tidy up bush, patio, climbing and ground cover roses
- Plant and divide perennials
- Brighten up your pots with pansies, primulas and spring flowering bulbs
- Move any deciduous trees or shrubs with as large a root-ball as possible before they start into new growth
Kitchen Garden
- Prepare the soil and then make the first sowings of lettuce, rocket, radishes, spring onions, leeks and early varieties of carrots and peas
- Plant early crops of potatoes in pots undercover; plant first earlies outdoors towards the end of the month
- Plant rhubarb, container grown fruit trees and bushes and strawberry plants
- Sow hardy herbs and plant and divide perennial herbs
Greenhouse
- Keep heating the greenhouse and water sparingly
- Sow tomatoes, chillies, sweet peppers and half-hardy annuals / bedding plants in a heated propagator
- Pot up plug plants and young plants as soon as you have purchased them
- Plant early crops such as summer cabbage and cauliflower in pots
The Lawn
- Deal with worm casts and molehills
- Make the first cut if dry enough and continue to mow regularly, gradually reducing the height of the cut
- Redefine lawn edges
- Lay turf before the end of the month if you didn’t in the autumn
General Advice
- Remove weeds and moss on paths, patios and drives
- Spring clean the garden, fork over the soil in garden and borders, weed and mulch
- Clean pond filters and pumps and begin to feed fish if weather is warm enough
- Continue feeding the wild birds, ensure you clean feeders regularly and provide a fresh water supply