March Gardening Tips for Your Region

It is time to get out into the garden. How great it is to be talking about the outdoors. I will be getting my outdoor wooden furniture ready to be put out on my deck. Starting to think about cleaning my decorative birdhouses. But thoughts of cleaning are being replaced with the desire to get in my garden.

So upon surfing about on the web I found great information on Better Homes and Garden's Website. I am summarizing below the tips for the Northeast Region. The other regions I have put link for you to go to.

1)Planting Vegetables

• Plant cool season vegetables such as radishes, peas, cauliflower, lettuce and broccoli as soon as you can work the ground this month
• Plant seeds of warm-loving varieties such as such as tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers indoors under fluorescent lights.

2)Clean up Your Garden

• Perennials or grasses that you did not cut back last fall or winter, cut back the dead stems before or as the plants put out new growth- cut back to 3 or inches so you know where to expect new growth

3)Prune

• Fruit trees (including apples, pears, and cherries) and fruits such as raspberries and grapes.
• Summer-blooming shrubs such as butterfly bush and rose of Sharon. DO NOT PRUNE SPRING BLOOMING BUSHES.
• Roses. Typically, you'll want to cut back to about 6 inches tall. Tips for pruning roses
• If your trees need pruning, now's the month to do it, all except oaks.

4)Tool Care

• Make sure your tools are in good working order before you need them. Using a metal file, sharpen the edges of your shovel.

5)Divide Your Perennials

• Divide later this month as they start to emerge from the soil. Most perennials do best when divided every two to three years or so. (more info on dividing perennials)
• Do not divide peonies until fall.

6)Early Spring Lawn Care

• If annual weeds such as crabgrass are a problem, apply a pre-emergence herbicide. Watch for your forsythia to bloom -- a good indicator of when it's best to treat your lawn for crabgrass.
• Even though your grass may be starting to green up, it's probably too early to fertilize. Wait a month or so until your grass is actively growing before feeding it.

Below is the links to the March Gardening tips for the other regions of the country

If you live in a different region of the country go to Better Homes and Garden's Gardening by Region... select region and then select month

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