March in the garden

Ornamental Garden:

  • Lightly rake lawn if mild and not waterlogged to remove moss & repair any damage. 
  • Remove any dead, diseased or damaged growth from trees and shrubs. 
  • Finish mulching if not done in autumn. 
  • Put manure/rose feed around all roses and check for dead, diseased or dying shoots. 
  • Deadhead bulbs regularly. 
  • Plant new perennials and summer-flowering bulbs. 
  • Re-pot or top-dress all containers.
  • Weed regularly. 
  • Edge / define all borders.
  • Plant roses. 
  • Sow hardy annuals for summer colour. 
  • Harden off hardy annuals sown under glass. 
  • Cut back any remaining growth from herbaceous / grasses leftover from the winter.  
  • Divide summer-flowering perennials like Astrantia.
Vegetable Garden:
  • Prune gooseberries and red and white currants. Remove deadwood and then spur prune all side shoots back to 2 – 3 buds from the base. Shorten branch tips by one quarter. 
  • Plant shallot and onion sets. 
  • Harvest the last of the winter crops and compost any un-diseased debris. 
  • Sow aubergines, cucumbers, tomatoes and chillies in an indoor heated propagator but only if you have a heated glasshouse for growing on seedlings.

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