March

In March make the most of the longer days and warmer weather to prepare your garden for the upcoming growing season.

Spring usually arrives by mid-March and the frequent sunny days provide the opportunity for an increasing range of gardening tasks. It’s time to get busy preparing seed beds, sowing seed, cutting back winter shrubs and generally tidying up around the garden.

Trees, shrubs and flowers

• Invigorate perennials
• Move Shrubs
• Deadhead Daffodils
• Weeding
• Repot House Plants
• Lawn Care
• Christmas amaryllis

Fruit, Vergetables and Herbs

• Plant asparagus
• Harvest Spring Cabbage
• Prune Figs
• Prepare for sowing
• Divide perennial herbs
• Final fruit pruning
• Strawberry beds

Greener Gardening

• Essential pond care
• Sow annuals
• Check for pests
• Plant comfrey
• Mulch bare soil
• Let it go wild

Top 10 jobs for this month

1. Protect new spring shoots from slugs
2. Plant shallots, onion sets, and potatoes
3. Plant summer-flowering bulbs
4. Lift and divide overgrown clumps of perennials
5. Top-dress containers with fresh compost
6. Mow the lawn on dry days
7. Cut back Cornus (Dogwood) and Salix (willow) that is grown for winter colour
8. Hoe and mulch weeds to keep them under control early
9. Start feeding fish and using pond fountain. Remove any pond heaters.
10. Prune bush and climbing roses