With March brings Spring , the primroses are blooming, bulbs are bursting into bloom, the lawn is starting to grow, and it’s beginning to get a little warmer. So it’s time to get your spring gardening underway. Caring for the lawn, preparing the soil and planting vegetables, pruning roses, and starting seeds head the list of things to do this month.
- Aerate lawns to revitalize grass. Over seed bare spots. Eliminate moss by liming, improving drainage and creating more light through pruning.
- Return your planters and hanging baskets to Port Kells Nurseries for refilling.
- Sow radish, spinach, fennel, parsley, cauliflower, cabbage, potatoes, broccoli and carrots.
- Sow grass seed or lay turf for a new lawn. The best seed for coastal gardens is a mixture of 60 per cent perennial rye and 40 per cent blend of creeping red fescue and blue grass.
- Plant new perennials, shrubs, hedges, vines and trees.
- Divide large clumps of perennials by lifting and cutting them into two or more pieces. Replant immediately.
- Plant summer flowering bulbs such as lilies, eucomis and acidanthera.
- Mulch to suppress weeds, reduce evaporation and maintain soil moisture. When you see forsythia in loom, do the final pruning of hybrid tea and floribunda roses.
- Pull weeds and hunt for slugs.
