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March 2018
Details of what was sown/planted in March
Archive for previous years' diaries dating from 2007 can be accessed by clicking here
This diary is a summary of our garden activities. The links are to blog posts that often give more detail.
1 - 4 March
No gardening this week - mostly confined indoors due to snow and freezing conditions
Full time job keeping bird table topped up and bird bath thawed
Everything on hold - hope the flowers have survived under the snow
Started to thaw Sunday resulting in mist
Before and after the snow arrived
Good news - meteorological spring has arrived
Our of the freezer and into the fridge
5 - 11 March
Snow returned but didn't stick around
Most of the flowers seem to have survived
Pollinated the apricot blossom
Seed potatoes moved back into the greenhouse and summerhouse
Broad beans sowed
Visited the plot
Tidied some more beds including making a start on perennial bed
Pruned roses and sambucus niger on the plot
Picked some sprouts
Visited North Yorkshire Moors
Apricot flowers and unwanted visitor
Apricot flowers in the snow - video
Plot tour and thoughts early spring - video
12 - 18 March
No outdoor gardening again this week - we keep thinking that we have seen the last of the now and back it comes
Sowed leeks and lettuce
More apricot flower pollination but petals are now falling
Nectarine flower buds are showing pink petals - there are more than I thought
Peach buds swelling
The watercress was surviving bit for how much longer.
Watercress experiment - a success
Some decent weather urgently required
I should have moved our potatoes
19 - 25 March
Snowed again
Planted Casablanca potatoes in bags in the greenhouse
Sowed sweet peas
Daphne flowering and first couple of flowers on the red camellia
Bought yellow clivia, birds nest fern, dahlia tubers, pot of parsely, mint and coriander
Recovered last year's dahlias from the garage
Managed three afternoons on the plot
Weeded and fertilised perennial bed.
Tidied fruit beds and started tidying beds for planting up
Picked sprouts
Nectarine flowers open so I started to pollinate
Native primroses starting to flower
Cut back autumn fruiting raspberries and mulched summer fruiting ones
Trimmed apples
Tulip leaves on the plot have been nipped by the cold
Mulched cardoons
At last we get to work on the allotment
Lots of digging - March week 4 - video
26 - 31 March
Continued pollinating peach and nectarine
Broad beans growing well
Tidied and prepared beds on the allotment
Planted out hardy annual plants
Planted shallot and onion sets
Harvested small cabbage and leeks
General tidy up in garden and garden greenhouse
Early brassica plants arrived and potted up.
Canna repotted
Ferns cut back
Most of roses pruned
Trimmed dead from hostas and trimmed faded heathers.
Trimmed pebble bed plants
Pieris is flowering
Frogs have arrived
They'll arrive when they are good and ready
Unpacking our early brassica plants - video