March in Your Vegetable Garden

WOW! NO WINTER AT ALL THIS YEAR, FOR THE MOST OF US…

March plantings are not much different from February’s, but the important thing is this:

MARCH IS THE LAST BIG PLANTING MONTH FOR THE SPRING SEASON.

With April’s warmth, the number of things you can plant drops drastically and then in May, June, and July there are really very few things you can plant at all… you need to have the plants growing already.  Heat and humidity will affect plant growth and productivity – and so will the bugs and diseases!!

So here’s the list for March

COOL WEATHER PLANTS

  • Beets
  • Carrots
  • Collards
  • Kohlrabi
  • Lettuce
  • Mustard
  • Onion – multiplier, bunching
  • Peas
  • Radish
  • Turnip

WARM WEATHER PLANTS

  • Beans – bush, pole, lima
  • Cantaloups
  • Corn
  • Cucumbers
  • Eggplant
  • Okra
  • Southern peas
  • Peppers
  • Sweet Potatoes
  • Pumpkin
  • Summer Squash
  • Winter Squash
  • Tomatoes
  • Watermelon

Remember though, this is just a generic list.  At your house in your gardening, things aren’t going to be generic.  Yours may be warmer, cooler, sunnier, shadier, dryer, moister, more fertile, different pH, more organic matter, yadda yadda yadda… than the average generic garden.

Look around your garden world.  Observe what and where things are growing, sprouting, the color, the health, moisture, disease… and use this information combined with a little common sense to guide your garden planting decisions.

4 thoughts on “March in Your Vegetable Garden”

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    This happens every time I plant tomatoes. Bottom branches die and it works itself up to the top. Tomatoes never get a chance to ripen. No apparent insects. Thanks!
    Wayne Hickey

    1. Hey Wayne,

      Your pic didn’t come through but your description sounds like one of the blights. I would treat it with a product containing Bacillus subtilis. Serenade Garden Disease Control is the product I use.

      Be forewarned that blight is hard to treat.

      Good luck

  2. Any recommendations for keeping squirrels and other veggie-loving critters out of the garden? Seems as though every time my plants start to make progress, the squirrels get to them.

    1. Hey Kyle,

      Oh gosh Kyle, squirrels are just so darn cute and smart and rascally that I’ve just learned how to live in harmony with them.
      Here are some things you can do:
      – cage the plants, or garden, they like… tomatoes for instance. You can use 1 inch chicken wire fencing for this.
      – plant lots of extra
      – plant just for them – a perimeter stripe of things they like — maybe they will fill up on those and leave yours alone LOLOLOL
      – pick veggies, like tomatoes, at the very first sign of ripening and let them ripen inside.
      – encourage hawks and owls to hunt in your yard – they do a reeeeeally good job

      Good luck

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