March

March

In the greenhouse

• Bring compost and growing bags into the greenhouse to warm up before use
• Keep glazing clean both inside and outside to let in as much light as possible
• Open vents on warm days to reduce condensation
• Cover young plants on benches with fleece on cold nights
• Sow tomatoes, cucumbers, melons, peppers, chillies, okra and aubergines if you have a heated greenhouse

Fruit and Vegetables

• Place seed potatoes in trays in bright frost-free positions to develop shoots
• Plant shallots and onion sets
• Finish winter pruning of fruit trees and bushes
• Bring potted strawberries into the greenhouse
• Sprat new peach and nectarine leaves with copper fungicide to prevent peach leaf curl
• Plant up new asparagus beds
• Sow summer leeks, cauliflowers, celery, celeriac, herbs and tomatoes in a warm greenhouse
• Crops to sow outside under cloches during February and March include beetroot, early carrots, broad beans, salad onions, peas, spinach, lettuce, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, radish, parsnips and turnips.