Jobs In The March Garden 

By mid-March, its time to welcome the start of spring, a busy, hopeful and happy time for us gardeners.

• Fertilise your beds, we suggest fish, blood and bone.
• Add supports for climbers.
• Feed your roses – we suggest Westland Rose Feed.
• Continue to plant summer flowering bulbs.
• Keep an eye out for slugs as the weather warms.
• Prepare ground for laying turf which can be done now.
• Check pot grown plants and repot if root bound, using fresh compost.
• Begin weeding as the weather warms — it’s easier to control weeds if you remove them while young.
• Deadhead daffodils, leaving foliage to die back naturally. Divide clumps of
• snowdrops, replanting at the same depth elsewhere to increase stocks.
• First early potatoes can be planted in the second half of March, weather permitting.