Top jobs for March include harvesting your first rhubarb of the year. The last sprouts, celeriac, parsnips and swedes should be harvested too.
Sow a few seeds outdoors if you’ve covered the bed in preparation to warm the soil. Seeds such a broad beans, cabbages, leeks, lettuces, onions, parsnips, peas, spinach, spring onions and sprouting brocolli.
Or sow indoors or under cloches or cold frames. Beetroot, carrots, cucumbers, lettuces, radishes, rocket, salad leaves and turnips anew all good contenders.
Plant first early potatoes, shallots, and garlic by the end of the end of the month.
Bare root fruit trees and bushes should be planted now, trees in large pots. Next month when they’re no longer dormant, it’ll be too late.
Finish winter pruning gooseberries, blackcurrants, blueberries and autumn raspberries.
Apply fertilisers to boost the nutritional content of your soil before sowing and planting begins.
Let’s hope the sunshine continues and the rains stay away so we can get cracking.
Don’t forget the usual things about Manure being a £1 a barrow load and please keep the gate locked. The gate code changes on 1 March 2025.
Lucinda