March is a great time to start preparing your garden for Spring.
To help you, I’m counting down the key tasks I do in March, taking you through each one, step by step. From adding soil improver to your borders to planting new potatoes to sowing your favourite seeds, this is one of the busiest months for us gardeners and if you garden along with me, I’ll help you get the best out of your outdoor space.
ALAN IS USING:
Soil improver, multi-purpose compost and ornamental bark mulch from Melcourt – https://rb.gy/f57db8
Fork, spade, hand trowel and hand fork from Spear and Jackson – https://rb.gy/6wl4lh
Hose and multi-functional sprayer from Gardena – https://rb.gy/ud9afv
Spring Plants from Blue Diamond Garden Centres – https://rb.gy/0ehb4p
1.8m deep root planter from Forest Garden – https://rb.gy/6tf9ug
Summer flowering bulbs and seed potatoes from Taylors – https://rb.gy/pvahhs
Flower Seeds and potato sacks from Fothergills – https://rb.gy/rvkrp6
Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
0:18 Job 1 – Mulch Your Beds and Borders
2:09 Job 2 – Plant Summer Flowering Bulbs In Pots
3:40 Job 3 – Plant Your Favourite Flowers From Seed
5:15 Job 4 – Plant Early Potatoes
6:55 Job 5 – Create a Spring Planter
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40 Comments
Beautiful garden alan nearly spring time 🌿🪴
again its all very well saying add mulch , and that's really fine for a smallish area but for a large area you havent a chance , gardening for the upper classes !!!!
I really can't wait for Spring! The winter feels to have been so long, and dreary this year. I planted some random things in my windowsill about two weeks ago: some Lobelia, Rudbeckia, Parsley, Akila, and one or two Foxgloves (don't ask) and most of them have started to grow really enthusastically now. It's such a small thing, but here more than anywhere perhaps it will be very relatable what a warm joy it is to finally see the start of new life. Spring is such a hopeful season. 🙂
I love being in my garden, there is always something to do.
Greetings from sunny S Florida. My plantings and schedule is nothing like yours, but I still like to see what’s happening in blightey. An expat and keen gardener.
Glad to hear feet and inches still exist.
Spring is just around the corner and always a pleasure to share it with Alan !
Nicely explained Alan. Informative content
Hi Alan good video but not everyone lives in your lovely climate we have a pile of snow here in Canada! We are at least a month away from getting outside! So although I enjoy your videos I have to add on a good month or two to your timeline. Also your peat free mulch isn’t even available here in Canada!
I’ve not grown potatoes for decades, after this Alan I’m getting a couple of those bags and having a go. Your crop from last season looked great. Fantastic relaxing presentation as always.
I usually miss mulching out, but I always regret it. This year I've promised myself that when Alan says do, I'm going to do.
Mulching is on the list for the morning
I’ve cleaned all the seed trays and the greenhouse today, ready for some sowing this weekend. Nothing beats sowing in the greenhouse with the birds singing. Just wonderful. P.S I hope you’re well, Alan, I thought you looked a little under the weather at the start of the video.
Hi Alan we mulched our borders this week we got a few compliments too always nice to hear ❤
Thanks for all your advice i do check your gardening year book each month
Only found your channel Alan & delighted .there's a chap over here john lord ,he's brilliant too .could I ask you a question if you don't mind- i have a pittosporum about 5 years old,are they hard to move ❓️cheers all the best 💚🤍🧡
Hi Alan, I love watching your videos. Before I mulch the soil do I need to dig it over a bit? Amateur gardener
My spring bulbs are lovely looking forward to the summer bulbs 😊
my essential job…get/beg Alan to come round and sort my garden 🤣
Great tips & great video, Alan. I agree it's important to condition one's soil with compost and mulch. I have been using mulch obtained from a green waste centre. By combining it with my clay soil, it provides air pockets and organic material for my native Aussie plants. The little greeblies living in the soil love it too.❤🪴🌻🌻🌹🦋🐛🐝🐞🪱🦗
I've just sown a border of cornflowers and cowslips, with a few white 'Tasso' daisies and Japanese anemones mixed in. It's been very mild and moist in my area, so I have high hopes.
I’m reusing empty compost bags as potato growing sacks this year, my potatoes are ready to go in but have had to delay as I’m having frosts here again.
That's reminded me that I'd better nip out to the garden centre after I've finished my cuppa and pick up some seed sowing compost. Then I can get some seeds down this afternoon… Cheers James 🙂👍
Thank you so much for a wonderful and useful program.💐
Such a pleasant video full of hope 😍😍😍
Deligtful,relaxing and informative as always ❤
Thank you, Mr. Titchmarsh! Great list of tasks. I've had an abbreviated Spring for those tasks, as next week, we're having record-setting heat forecast earlier than ever. Never a dull moment, ha!
Daffodils and tulips are flowering and hyacinths…l no l need to get out and tidy up after winter…and use the pressure washer on green bits of fencing and steps….next week it's going to be alot warmer so no excuses…😅
And Lettuce ! – I believe we can sow lettuce seeds in March
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How about using marigolds for keeping bugs off plants
My friend and I used to watch you on Gardener's World. I'm so glad you are back.
I used bark chips on a border next to a paving area. The blackbirds came along and chucked the chips everywhere!😅
You put crocks in your clay pots but it seems not in tbe potato bags, why?
Really enjoyable and helpful video thanks Alan 😊
I just love your videos ! As a botanical gardener, i'm usualy bored by the gardening videos online, but yours are jsut PERFECT. Always usefull tips, and beautiful finally visual. I dream to visit your garden one day ! Keep going and thank you so much !
I can’t use Fish, Blood & Bone with my dog – it’s like catnip to him (along with mature manure!). Also, he may well pick up bark, some of which can be toxic to dogs. So we dog owners need to be super careful with what’s put down and check first to see if the dog shows any interest in a small test patch.
Thanks Alan 🙂
Saved! Going to do a planter! Given up on spuds. Too much space for not a lot of return.
I love all your gardening videos . Definatly going to have a go at growing some potatoes .
I'd like to add more mulch but the cost is absolutely huge and bark is no good in our area due to cats. I've been trying to make more compost.
Will buy some seeds today. My garden needs so much work. 😮 Don’t know where to start. I lov gardening but this is a mammoth task following the worst winter in my memory. I am in Cornwall and Storm Goretti and all the rain. ☔️ my garden is in need of a lot of tidying up. I may take up the stones today and wash them as the sun has finally found its way here. I can then pull out the weeds in that area before placing them back. I have cut back my honeysuckle a little and cut back my passion flower as that grows quickly. My roses had black spot so they have been cut back and treated. They are starting to grow better now. My pond was full of snails so I have fished them out and I need to tidy it up but my fish seem okay. I have the pump on today. Fingers crossed it will look better soon. The water is fairly clear though. My grass is knee height though as the ground has been so wet and we haven’t been able to cut it. We will this weekend though. Just the weeds are so bad. The path needs a clean and we need to go to the dump with a load of accumulated rubbish – broken items from the storm. I need a new trellis as it was destroyed by Goretti.