Monthly Garden To Do List
Things To Plant in March
Flower Plants:
Achillea (Yarrow), Butterfly Weed (Asclepias), Blue Daze, Cigar Plant, Columbine, Copper Plant, Coreopsis, Dianthus, Lamb’s Ear, Lantana, Mexican Heather, Hibiscus, and Salvia.
Vegetables:
Early-Mid Month: Asparagus Crowns, Collards, and Turnip
Mid-Late Month: Corn, Cucumber, Eggplant, Peppers, Pumpkin, Watermelon, and Squash.
All Month: Beans, Lettuce, Mustard, Radish, and Tomato plants.
Herbs:
Basil, Bay, Borage, Catnip, Chives, Cumin, Fennel, Germander, Horseradish, Lamb’s ear, Lavender, Lemon Grass, Lemon Verbena, Oregano, Parsley, Rosemary, Sage, and Thyme.
Fruit:
Grow fruit, nut trees, vines, and bushes in containers till the last freeze passes.
Tips:
- Protect your plants from the freeze!
- Feed your transplant a liquid plant food weekly for the first month.
Things To Do in March
Fertilize:
- Feed hibiscus monthly after pruning.
- Start a rose feeding schedule.
- Feed and Spray Camelias.
- Begin to feed azaleas after they bloom.
- Start to fertilize established fruit and nut trees.
Diseases/Pests To Look For:
- Keep an eye for aphids on new growth.
- Check for spider mites on older leaves.
- Watch out for cutworms for young plants.
Prune:
- Hibiscus
- Begin to prune spring-flowering shrubs and trees after they bloom.
- Prune and train vines.
- Go ahead and shape spring-blooming shrubs with a light pruning after they bloom.