✿ MARCH ✿
✿ FLOWER GARDEN ✿
- Mow the lawn.
- Plant summer flowering bulbs, and hardy perennials.
- Sow hardy annual seeds.
- Watch out for plants in containers drying out as the weather warms up.
- Renew the top layer (1.5cm-2.5cm) of compost in containers to renew the goodness and provide a mulch to supress weed seeds. You can also mulch beds and borders too. Keep an eye out for weed seedlings breaking through still and pick them out when they are small.
✿ VEG GARDEN ✿
- Veg seed sowing starts now. Practically all veg can be started in March.
- The more tender veg need to been sown and grown indoors for a few weeks, then get hardened off by taking them outside in the day, then giving them shelter at night for a couple of weeks, and by the end of that process the risk of frost should be passed to they can be planted out into a veg bed, or border, or container.
- Some veg are hardy enough to be planted straight outdoors now. These include:- beetroot, carrot (early varieties), spring onions, mangetout, peas, leeks, parsnips, salad leaves, and kale.
- If you are sowing peas, as soon as the first shoots are up provide them with some support to grow up. That could be a few twiggy sticks pushed in next to the plants, or a net stretched out between canes.
| ✿ WILDLIFE ✿ - Garden birds are starting to build nests. If you’re doing any pruning and have some small twigs available, put them in a small pile somewhere in the open and the birds will come are raid them for their nests. - You can also put out softer nesting material like wool which they will use to line their nest. You can put this in a peanut feeder and they birds will pull bits through the mesh. - If you want to attract frogs, but haven’t got room for a ‘normal’ size pond, you could always use an old washing up bowl. Half sink it into the ground in a shady spot, and build a ramp of stones, or use one large stone, as an exit out. | 
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