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THINGS TO DO IN YOUR GARDEN IN MARCH
• Here is a link for things that should have been done in February, just in case you are still catching up!
• Click here for Central NC Planting Calendar for Annual Vegetables, Fruits, and Herbs. • Plant hardy woody vines like clematis. • Divide and replant daylilies, hostas, peonies, shasta daisies, asters, boltonia, phlox, rudbeckia and chrysanthemums when new growth is 1-2 inches high. • Cut back liriope monkey grass before new growth begins. • Deadhead daffodils when the blooms fade, but allow the foliage to die back naturally to store nutrients for the next growing season. • Cut back plants that were left for winter interest, including grasses and seed heads. • Cut back dead and old foliage from ferns. • Turn over soil in vegetable beds and add plenty of organic matter. • Plant cool season crops – i.e., lettuce, chard, kale, spinach, peas, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, radishes, and beets. Cover them if temperatures dip below freezing. • Start tender vegetables, like tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers, indoors. • Prune summer-blooming plants like althea, buddleia, vitex and crepe myrtle. • Prune deciduous azalea, forsythia, flowering quince, spiraea and viburnum after blooming. • Prune roses, raspberries, blackberries if you haven’t already. • Remove old camellia blooms to prevent spread of petal blight. Clean up any dead blooms from the ground. • Repot houseplants and begin putting them outside on warmer days.
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