March Vegetable Garden Plans

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March Vegetable Garden Plans

One of the most difficult tasks in your March Vegetable Garden Plans will be to start things at the proper time, and yet the success of your March Vegetable Garden Plans depends on the thoroughness with which it is done.

The following gardening tips for operations, given month by month, will serve not only as a timely reminder of things to be done, but as the basis for such a check list. The importance of the preparation is obvious in all matters of your March Vegetable Garden Plans.

March Vegetable Garden Plans Calendar

March Vegetable Garden Plans

Hotbeds.

If not made last of February, should be made at once. Some of the seed sown last month will be ready for transplanting and going into the frames; also lettuce sown in January. Radish and carrot (forcing varieties) may be sown in alternating rows. Give much more air; water on bright mornings; be careful not to have them caught by suddenly cold nights after a bright warm day.

Seed-sowing under glass.

Last sowing of early cabbage and early summer cabbages (like Succession), lettuce, rhubarb (for seedling plants), cauliflower, radish, spinach, turnip, and early tomatoes; towards last of month, late tomatoes and first of peppers, and eggplant.

Sweet peas

These often find a place in the vegetable garden; start a few early, to set out later; they will do better than if started outside. Start tomatoes for growing in frames. For early potatoes sprout in sand.

Planting outside. 

If an early spring, and the ground is sufficiently dry, sow onions, lettuce, beet, radish, (sweet peas, smooth peas, early carrot, cabbage, leek, celery (main crop), and turnip. Set out new beds of asparagus, rhubarb and sea-kale (be sure to try a few plants of the latter). Manure and fork up old beds of above.

Fruit.

Prune now, apple, plum and pear trees.

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