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From YouTube: Garden Chores - March
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Keeping up with the seasons in your garden can sometimes be tricky. When do you plant for Spring? When do you harvest your vegetables? How do you keep those critters out of your garden? Learn to improve your green thumb with the answers to those and much more.
Join Master Gardener Linda Blue of the North Carolina Office of Cooperative Extension for need-to-know gardening tips and chores for the month of March. For more information you can call the office of Cooperative Extension at (828) 255-5522.
A
By
the
time
we
get
to
March
gardeners
are
really
ready
for
spring.
So
it's
a
good
thing
that
in
March
we
can
actually
start
some
early
planting
in
the
vegetable
garden.
As
a
matter
of
fact,
if
you
got
out
early
and
did
some
planting
in
the
last
week
of
February
or
early
March
of
things
like
your
edible
pod,
peas
and
spinach
well
by
the
very
end
of
March,
it
is
just
like
a
spring
tonic
to
see
these
seedlings
coming
up
out
of
the
ground
for
the
spinach
for
your
peas.
A
What
else
can
you
plant
in
March?
Well,
you
could
plant
things
like
your
lettuces
spinach,
any
of
your
leafy
greens
like
kale
and
chard
and
so
forth.
You
can
also,
by
the
middle
of
the
month,
to
the
end
of
March,
on
through
April,
be
setting
out
your
transplants
for
plants
like
cabbage,
broccoli
and
cauliflower.
A
Now,
don't
let
this
make
you
get
overly
optimistic
for
some
of
your
summer
crops
we're
away
off
until
May
before
it's
time
to
plant
your
beans
and
your
tomatoes
and
so
forth,
also
in
the
month
of
March,
by
about
the
middle
of
the
month,
if
you
want
to
plant
potatoes,
you
can
go
ahead
and
start
your
potato
bed.
If
you
have
wanted
to
start
an
asparagus
bed.
A
If
you
want
to
plant
fruit
plants,
March
is
an
excellent
time
to
plant
fruit
trees
and,
if
your
berry,
bushes,
like
blueberries
and
blackberries
and
raspberries
as
well
as
strawberries,
if
you
already
have
any
of
those
kind
of
plants,
this
is
a
time
to
do
your
pruning
on
your
fruit
trees
and
your
berries
and
so
forth.
It's
also
a
time
to
fertilize
fruit,
trees,
blueberries
blackberries.
What
you
do
not
want
to
fertilize
in
the
spring
is
your
strawberries
in
the
strawberry
bed.
A
You
might
actually
also
want
to
be
doing
a
little
weed
control
pretty
soon
it'll
be
time
to
pull
the
straw
covering
off
the
top
of
that
strawberry
bed,
if
you
put
it
out,
but
the
weeds
often
start
to
come
up
this
time
of
year
as
well
course.
This
is
also
the
time
to
take
care
of
some
lawn
care
chores.
A
March
is
a
time
to
be
getting
started
or
finishing
up
some
of
those
lawn
care
chores.
If
you
have
not
done
your
spring
fertilizer,
yet
slow
release
fertilizer
off
to
beyond
by
the
first
week
of
March
once
you're.
Beyond
that
time,
you
can
still
fertilize,
but
I
would
use
something
quickly
released
like
a
10,
10
10
or
an
8
8
8.
A
Right
now
take
a
look
and
see
if
there's
a
lot
of
winter
weeds
out
there
like
chick
weed
and
hen
bit
and
that
sort
of
thing
you
have
the
options
now
of
going
and
just
pulling
them
while
they're,
very
small
weeds
or
here's
one
of
the
broadleaf
weed
killers
to
just
go
around
and
give
an
individual
squirt
to
each
of
those
weeds.
The
other
thing,
of
course,
is
that
you
probably
are
cranking
up
the
lawn
or
about
now
it's
a
good
time
to
get
that
mower
blade
sharpened.
A
A
March
is
a
good
time
to
be
doing
some
planting
in
the
landscape,
whether
you
want
to
plant
some
new
trees,
shrubs
or
even
some
of
your
perennial
flowers.
You
can
do
some
pruning
now
as
well.
Your
evergreen
shrubs
such
as
your
Hollies
and
any
of
your
needled
evergreens,
can
be
pruned.
You
can
also
prune
rose
bushes,
preferably
starting
about
the
later
part
of
March.
Things
like
these
shrub
roses,
really
don't
need
much
pruning
except
to
reduce
their
size
and
maybe
thin
them
out
a
little
bit.
A
Hybrid
teas
require
much
more
care
and
upkeep
and
more
stringent
a
type
of
pruning.
What
you
do
not
want
to
prune
right
now
is
your
spring
flowering
shrubs,
for
example,
rhododendrons
and
azaleas.
You
can
readily
see
that
they
already
have
the
flower
buds
on
them
that
are
going
to
be
ready
to
bloom
this
spring.
So
you
want
to
wait
until
after
those
have
bloomed
before
you
do
your
pruning.
A
The
exception
would
be
that
if
you
need
to
do
some
really
severe
pruning
to
renovate
big
overgrown,
shrubs
right
now
would
be
an
excellent
time
to
go
ahead
and
take
care
of
that
job.
If
you
have
shrubs
that
you
feel
like
need
a
little
bit
of
fertilizing,
this
would
probably
be
the
best
time
of
year
to
go
ahead
and
use
a
little
bit
of
slow
release.
Fertilizers
around
those
types
of
plants
as
well.
A
Houseplants,
like
a
lot
of
other
things,
are
getting
ready
to
put
on
their
spring
growth
as
they're,
starting
to
get
more
sunlight
this
time
of
year.
So
this
is
a
good
time
to
do
things
like
repot
houseplants.
This
is
the
time
to
dump
these
plants
out
of
the
pot
and
see
if
they've,
not
gotten,
pretty
tight
in
there
and
ready
to
pop
these
up
into
another
larger
pot
or
at
least
take
the
soil
off
of
this
plant
and
give
it
some
fresh,
potting
soil.
It's
also
a
good
time
to
start
new
plants.
A
You
remember
the
cuttings
that
we
took
of
our
coleus
last
month
have
already
got
excellent
root
systems
on
them.
So
this
would
be
a
good
time
to
go
ahead
and
pot
up.
Some
of
these
plants
go
ahead
and
get
these
once
they
have
are
well
rooted
like
that
either
into
individual
pots,
or
if
you
want
to
make
a
great
big
basket,
you
can
put
several
cuttings
into
one
larger
pot
and
you'll.
A
Have
wonderful
plants
ready
for
your
deck
in
the
spring
also
check
over
those
houseplants
carefully
to
make
sure
that
they
have
not
accumulated
in
the
insect
problems
during
the
winter
month
that
you
might
want
to
start
taking
them
outside
to
give
them
a
spray
to
get
insects
under
control?
If
you
need
to,
if
you
have
other
questions,
need
more
information
about
your
lawn
and
gardening
questions.
Give
us
a
call
at
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kaen,
County,
Cooperative,
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