- Prune winter-flowering vines and shrubs after blooming.
- Plant summer and fall blooming bulbs.
- Spray fruit trees and roses with dormant oil if you haven’t already done so. (Please note that Linda Gilkeson doesn’t spray dormant oil or lime sulphur routinely because they kill beneficial mites and insects. However, if a tree had a pest or disease problem in the previous growing season that could be controlled with dormant sprays, then she does spray that tree.)
- Plant ground covers, grasses, roses, fruit trees, perennials, shrubs, trees and vines.
- Plant warm season vegetables.
- Start feeding your houseplants with an organic fertilizer.
- Start feeding your trees, shrubs, perennials and vines with an organic fertilizer.
- Prepare vegetable beds by working in plenty of compost or manure. Lime two weeks later if needed. Continue to clear and weed flower beds and mulch with well-rotted compost or manure.
- Continue to lift and divide perennials.
- Prune forsythia and grey-leafed plants like lavender, lavender-cotton and senecio.
- Prune roses and apply organic rose food to soil.
- Sow radish, garlic and broad beans when it gets warmer.
- March 16-31 (or when it gets warmer) begin successive sowings of peas, spinach, leaf lettuce, Chinese vegetables, onion sets, turnips and shallots.
- Sow tomatoes indoors.
- Plant new strawberry plants and feed established plants.
- Feed rhubarb with rich organic material.
- Sow seeds of annual herbs and prune established herbs such as sage, rue and thyme if they have become leggy.
- Plant ground covers, grasses, fruit trees, perennials, shrubs, trees, vines, roses and repair lawns.