March Job List

- Remember to ventilate greenhouses on mild days
- Sow undercover cucumbers (if warm enough) courgettes and aubergines
- Sow outdoors (weather permitting) – early carrots, parsnips and beetroot
- Plant Onion sets, Shallots and early potatoes
- Harden off seedlings of hardy annuals
- Feed roses – we sell bespoke Rose Fertiliser, plus Violet Farms Horse Blend is an excellent mulch/feed
-Tie in raspberry canes
- Mow lawns on high settings
- Avoid cutting hedges and disturbing nesting birds
-Keep an eye on those temperatures still … WATCH FOR FROST!
- Plant summer flowering bulbs such as Lilies, Dahlias
- Lift & divide overgrown summer-flowering perennials
- Cut back Cornus (Dogwood) and Salix (Willow) for colourful winter stems
- Top-dress containers with fresh compost – consider a full re-pot if your potted plants have been a little neglected