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Your Monthly Guide: March

WATCH OUT:

 

  • Fickle weather – frost

  • Weeds starting to grow.

TO DO LIST:

 

  • Start planting summer flowering bulbs

  • Start sowing summer bedding

  • Dead head early spring flowering bulbs

  • Hoe weeds

  • Plant shallots, onion sets and garlic

  • Plant early potatoes

  • Put up supports for runner and climbing beans

  • Dig in overwintered green manures.

WHAT SHOULD YOU SOW NOW?

 

  • Chillies

  • Peppers

  • Tomatoes

  • Spring cabbage

  • Broccoli

  • Cauliflower

  • Parsnips

  • Red cabbage

  • Peas

  • Onions.

The British summer time at the end of March provides an extra hour of daylight to facilitate gardening time. 
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