March Jobs Calendar

Vegetable Beds

Depending on weather - don't sow anything too early if it is still wet and cold. A traditional test - if you can drop your pants and sit your bare bottom on the soil, without feeling the cold, it's warm enough to sow seeds!

• Prepare seed beds for brassicas; sow
• Sow swede, turnip in final beds
• Plant first early potatoes (week 4?)
• Sow early peas, broad beans, carrot, radish
• Dig up mint plants and replant (to keep them under control and avoid rust)
• Leeks taking up space can be lifted and heeled into an odd spot; saves space, stops them bolting, but keeps your supplies fresh.
• Thin spring cabbages and use as spring greens
• Garlic can be planted now
• Spring clean herb bed
• Take heel cuttings, and grow on in pots of compost
• Most herbs can be sown now direct - but sow Basil in pots in house
• Divide large clumps of mint, lemon balm, chives, sage - split in two and plant the other elsewhere
• Sow Tomatoes in pots in house

Fruit

• Feed bushes and canes (not strawberries)

What's in Season?

• Broccoli - Sprouting
• Cabbage - Spring Greens
• Kale
• Leek
• Spinach
• Swiss Chard
• Turnip tops