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March – MrT’s Gardening Year 2026 – Episode 03
March, as the month progresses we pass through both the equilux and the equinox. The days are getting longer and spring really is upon us.
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Relatively dry:
To be honest we could do with some rain. Lots of dry, grey days! There has been sunshine, there has been some rain but not enough of it!
March sees the garden at its best. There are the flowering bulbs following on from the snowdrops and crocus. Magnificent yellows, whites and creams from the daffodils, vivid colours from the hyacinths and the blue and mauve of the grape hyacinths and anemone blanda.
The bulbs in pots have been really magnificent and the daffodils in grassy areas have put on a much better show than in the past few years.
The primroses are at their peak. All self seeded and spreading beautifully. Meanwhile the Bachelors Button is a glorious mass of yellow.
Vegetables and fruit:
We’re still eating last year’s carrots. We need to get them finished so that I can clean out and disinfect the raised boxes that I grow them in to minimise the damage caused by carrot fly. Once that is done I can fill them with new compost and sow this year’s seeds.
The rhubarb is growing well in it’s pot. Mrs T may well have a serving of rhubarb in the near future. Personally I can’t stand rhubarb!
Elsewhere in the garden:
The sweet peas are hardening off in the cold frame and the tulips in our main border are promising a good show this year.
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