Monthly Garden Advice for March
Vegetables and Salads
always taste better straight from the garden. Sowings can be made direct outdoors once soil conditions allow. Sow broad beans, peas, carrots, turnips, parsnips, kohl rabi, spinach, lettuce and radish. Try miximg some coriander seed with the carrots to deter carrot root fly. Sow tomatoes and peppers in compost, maintaining the temperature at 18-20C for optimum germination.
Pot Up
Herbs to provide fresh leaves for salads and garnishes. Select from our attractive range of containers. Fill with multi purpose compost and plant one variety per tub. These could make an attractive arrangement close to the kitchen for easy harvesting. Mints and parsley will cope with shade but the others will prefer some sunshine to produce their wonderful aromatic foliage.
Bedding Plants
can be sown now using heated propagators. Alternatively look at the wide range of seedlings now available in the garden centre. These are at an ideal stage to move on into 9cm pots or 12 or 24 module trays. Give maximum light and average temperatures of 12-15C.
Quick Tips
- move snowdrops in leaf as flowers fade.
- complete winter pruning of deciduous fruits, cane fruits and ornamental shrubs.
- plant berrying trees and shrubs to attract birds.
- cut back penstemons and ornamental grasses where top growth has been left for winter protection or interest.
