Provided is a list of tasks you need to perform in your garden during March. Please understand your gardening zone which is identified in the menu above. Look for Hardiness Zones.
Zone 1
- Order indoor seed starting kits and seeds
- Cut back on feeding houseplants (do not feed dormant houseplants)
- Water indoor cymbidium orchids weekly until theybloom
- Sow seeds indoors for tender perennials and annuals
- Clean, oil and sharpen tools
Zone 2
- Order seeds and seed starting systems
- Sow seeds indoors or cold frame
- Remove mulch from early bulbs
- Cut back on feeding houseplants (do not feed dormant houseplants)
- Sow seeds for cool-weather vegetables
- Sow frost-tolerant perennials indoors
- Clean, oil and sharpen tools
- Order or construct a cold frame for starting vegetables outdoors
Zone 3
- Order seeds
- Sow seeds for hardy spring-blooming plants
- Remove mulch from early bulbs
- Cut back on feeding houseplants (do not feed dormant houseplants)
- Sow seeds for cool-weather vegetables
- Sow frost-tolerant perennials indoors
Zone 4
- Plant bare root trees
- Cut back on feeding houseplants (do not feed dormant houseplants)
- Sow seeds for cool-weather vegetables
- Sow frost-tolerant perennials indoors
Zone 5
- Plant dormant, hardy container and balled and burlapped plants
- Sow seeds of warm-season annuals indoors
- Remove winter mulch, lightly cultivate soil if thawed
- Prune out winter damage
- Apply dormant spray to fruit trees
- Plant or transplant frost-tolerant perennials
- Sow seeds for tender perennials indoors
- Plant bare-root roses
- Plant bare-root trees, shrubs, and vines
- Prune winter-blooming shrubs and vines just after bloom
- Plant bare-root perennial vegetables (asparagus,rhubarb etc.)
- Plant seedlings of cool-season vegetables
- Sow seeds for cool- and warm-season vegetables
- Protect tender plants from frost
Zone 6
- Sow seeds of warm-season annuals indoors
- Prune out winter damage
- Feed cool-season lawns
- Remove winter mulch, lightly cultivate soil if thawed
- Sow seeds for cool-weather vegetables
- Sow frost-tolerant perennials indoors
- Divide and replant summer- and fall-blooming perennials
- Plant bare-root and container roses
- Prune roses (when temperatures remain above freezing)
Zone 7
- Sow seeds of warm-season annuals
- Set out summer-flowering bulbs
- Plant fall-blooming bulbs
- Plant balled-and-burlapped, container, and bare-rootfruit trees
- Apply dormant spray to fruit trees before buds swell
- Spray apples, peaches, and pears that have been affected with canker problems
- Plant bare-root perennial vegetables
- Plant seedlings of cool-weather vegetables
- Sow fast-growing warm-season vegetables
- Sow seeds for frost-tolerant perennials
- Sow seeds for tender perennials
- Plant container and bare-root roses
- Plant balled-and-burlapped, container, and bare-roottrees, shrubs, and vines
- Plant summer-blooming shrubs and vines
- Plant frost-tolerant trees
- Plant conifers and broad-leaf evergreens
Zone 8
- Prune winter-flowering shrubs and vines after bloom
- Plant summer- and fall-flowering bulbs
- Spray for peach leaf curl, peach leaf blight, and canker
- Plant permanent ground covers
- Plant or repair lawns
- Plant ornamental grasses
- Plant bare-root and container roses
- Plant or transplant warm-season annuals
- Plant fruit trees
- Feed houseplants that are growing or blooming
- Plant heat-loving perennials
- Plant ornamental and evergreen trees, shrubs, andvines
- Prune spring-flowering or tender shrubs and vines during or just after bloom
- Plant warm-seasoned vegetable seedlings
Zone 9
- Set out warm season annuals
- Plant summer-flowering bulbs
- Plant container fruit trees
- Prune fruit trees after bloom and fruit setting
- Spray for peach leaf curl, peach leaf blight, and canker
- Repair or plant lawns with warm season grasses (Bermuda, St. Augustine etc.)
- Plant ornamental grasses
- Plant fall-blooming perennials
- Prune tender deciduous shrubs and vines
- Prune spring-flowering shrubs and vines during or just after bloom
- Prune flowering fruit trees during or just after bloom
- Sow seeds for warm-season vegetables
- Plant seedlings of warm-season vegetables
Zone 10
- Get ahead of the bugs by hand-picking or spraying with organic preparations
- Fertilize oleander, Bauhinia, hibiscus and citrus while in bloom with a low-nitrogen plant food
- Mulch with at least two inches of decomposed hardwood material such as pine bark, pine needles, or cypress bark to conserve moisture in flower and vegetable beds
- Plant avocados, papaya, breadfruit and mango, tababuia and tibuchina trees
- Plant seed, seedlings, or rooted starts of herbs and vegetables such as peppers, okra, cantaloupe, watermelons, peanuts, sweet potatoes, luffa, chayote, lemon grass and mint
- In drought-prone areas, install simple drip-irrigation systems to take care of summer watering needs
Zone 11
- Get ahead of the bugs by hand-picking or spraying with organic preparations
- Fertilize oleander, Bauhinia, hibiscus and citrus while in bloom with a low-nitrogen plant food
- Mulch with at least two inches of decomposed hardwood material such as pine bark, pine needles, or cypress bark to conserve moisture in flower and vegetable beds
- Plant avocados, papaya, breadfruit and mango, tabebuia and tibuchina trees
- Plant seed, seedlings, or rooted starts of herbs and vegetables such as peppers, okra, cantaloupe, watermelons, peanuts, sweet potatoes, luffa, chayote, lemon grass and mint
- In drought-prone areas, install simple drip-irrigation systems to take care of summer watering needs
