25 Veggies You Can Plant In March RIGHT NOW!

In this video, I share 25 veggies you can plant in March right now! March is crunch time for starting seeds, because now is when most of our favorite warm weather crops for our spring garden and summer garden are started. These are my favorite garden vegetables to plant in March!

All 25 of these crops you can start from seed in March, but whether you start seeds in early, middle or late March will depend on your climate and the days to maturity of the crop you’re starting. This video contains a blend of vegetables best grown by starting seeds indoors and also by direct sowing outdoors. I break it all down for you in this video so it’s easy to understand.

How To Start Cucurbits From Seed: https://youtu.be/Qgun6DDy_b8?si=y5-juN_XrS54vb3w
How To Grow Sweet Potato Slips: https://youtu.be/0igp5IzO21g?si=df8rn509XMGI1vSn

TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Vegetables To Start In March
0:30 Veggies 1-7
2:34 Veggies 8-9
5:11 Veggies 10-13
6:58 Veggies 14-16
9:10 Veggie 17
10:39 Veggies 18-19
12:08 Veggies 20-22
15:35 Veggies 23-25
18:26 Adventures With Dale

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What’s growing on gardeners it’s Tuesday February 27th and spring is so close I can taste it here on the Southeastern coast of North Carolina on today’s video I’m going to share with all of you 25 different crops that you can plant in March right now for the best vegetable

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Greatly appreciated veggies numbers 1 through 7 that you can start right now are the cucurbit family and that includes crops like cucumbers squash like Butternut spaghetti or Acorn zucchini pumpkins gourds watermelons and other melons like cantaloupe honeydew and kajari melons now these are just examples and some of you may take issue

With the way I laid them out you may be saying zucchini is technically a squash well a zucchini is really nothing like a butternut squash and a watermelon is really nothing like a cantaloupe but cantaloupe and honeydew are pretty similar acorn squash and butternut squash are pretty similar I tried to

Lump them together with what made the most sense so go a little easy on me don’t fall into the Trap when you start your cuer bit seeds here where I live I start my tomato and pepper seeds the very first week of February so they’ve been growing for quite some time but my

Cucur bits I don’t start until the middle of March and that is for two distinct reasons number one your cucurbits germinate in no time and they form transplants in no time whereas a tomato or pepper plant can take up to two weeks to germinate and another 6 to8

Weeks to grow into mature transplants your cucurbits usually germinate in 3 to 5 days and then from there they’re ready to go out in your garden in only 3 weeks second your tomatoes and peppers are subtropical plants that can tolerate cool nights in the low 40s and upper 30s

As long as they don’t get hit by Frost and it warms up during the day and they recover your cucurbits on the other hand are very tropical they don’t like it when the nights drop below 50° F so whereas I bring my tomatoes and peppers out into my garden

Immediately after last chance of frost I don’t plant my cucurbits out until about 3 weeks after because I want it to get nice and regularly warm at night so don’t fall into the Trap and start your cucumbers squash and watermelon at the same time that you start your tomatoes

And peppers if you do your cucur bits will be ready way too early and you won’t have anywhere to place your plants for more detail on growing cuer bits from seed I will drop a link down in the video description that tells you everything you need to know crops 8 and

N are potatoes and sweet potatoes but despite the name they are actually in different families your potatoes are a night shade like tomatoes peppers and eggplant whereas your sweet potatoes are in the Morning Glory family they are actually the tuberous root of a morning glory plant but despite the fact that

They are not in the same family you should start your potatoes and sweet potatoes both at the same time because they both take a while to get going for example your potatoes you actually plant them directly after they begin sprouting so this is a bag of organic potatoes

That I bought from the grocery store and they are developing Sprouts all over them once you start seeing Sprouts that means you can plant them now Wally potato is not tolerant of frost Frost will kill it because we bury them about 6 in underground by the time the eyes

Sprout underground and then the potatoes take root and they make green foliage and it breaks through the surface several weeks have passed so for that reason you actually want to plant your potatoes about 3 weeks before your last frost date that will give them time to get going and begin sprouting

Underground then by the time they actually break through the soil your last chance of frost has passed so I’m going to be planting my potatoes very soon in early March your sweet potatoes on the other hand grow completely differently what you want to do with a

Sweet potato is you want to place it in moist potting mix and then keep it in a high humidity area and keep it nice and warm and the potato will start rooting into the mix and then start sprouting Vines those Vines at the nodes will break off into slips and you actually

Snap those slips and you plant them directly into ground now while your white potatoes they can be planted when it’s still pretty cool out you don’t want to plant your sweet potatoes outside until it’s sufficiently warm at night not until the nights at least hit 50° F because these are super tropical

They don’t like any temperatures below 50 so because of that it usually takes anywhere from about 6 to 8 weeks for your sweet potatoes to root and start producing slips this plant right here is actually a rooted okan sweet potato that I overwintered from last year and it’s

Still producing Vines it’s really upset because it was in my sun room which reaches the 40s at night during most of the winter so you see a little bit of Browning but nonetheless it has stayed alive and this Vine you will actually break off the nodes and plant that

Directly into ground this is what the slips are and if you’re curious on how to root a sweet potato I will place a link in the video description that will teach you everything you know about how to root a sweet potato and plant the slips veggies 10 through 13 that you can

Plant in March are your night shades and that includes tomatoes peppers eggplant and tomatillos now if you’re in the coastal South or the Deep South like me it’s getting kind of too late to start starting things like tomatoes specifically because they don’t do well when it starts getting regularly above

90° during the day and 70° during the night so you better hurry up and get those seeds started if you live in a hot humid climate like I do but if you live well north of me or if you’re Inland in the midwest or in the Upper Midwest or

On the west coast where you don’t get those persistent 90° temperatures now is generally when you want to start your night shades now as I mentioned in the cucurbit segment your night shades tend to take a long time to germinate and grow into transplants generally speaking

They take up to about 2 weeks to germinate when you use a Seedling heat mat that will help make things faster and maximize your germination rate but once they germinate they usually take about another 6 weeks or so before they get large enough to be a fulls siiz

Transplant to go out into your garden so generally speaking if you can’t plant your tomatoes peppers and other night shades out into your garden until April 15th or later you probably want to start all of them around March 1st if you can’t plant them out into your garden well into May you’ll probably

Want to start them in mid to late March after 8 weeks you will wind up with a transplant similar to this this is a dwarf Emerald giant dwarf tomato and it’s 8 weeks old and it just looks absolutely gorgeous look at those perfect Roots I’m probably going to

Plant this out into my garden this very weekend and then run a little Frost protection experiment let’s see if I can get this to survive and then have really early fruit in my garden veggies for 14 15 and 16 are root vegetables carrots beets and radishes now these are all

Frost tolerant vegetables that you can plant out into your garden while it’s still cold out and you’re getting temperatures below freezing but because they are root vegetables they do not like being transplanted you only want to sew these directly into your garden now here in this raised garden bed you can

See a few waves of radishes and carrots these are radishes that I sewed well over a month ago this is a more recent planting of radishes that are just starting to get going and then over here we have lots of carrots and here in North Carolina I have the luxury of

Being able to sew these direct sew Frost tolerant veggies all winter long but some of you will have to wait until the soil warms up adequately to be able to sew these seeds now as you can see I have some fairly lousy carrot germination rates and that’s because I

Planted these in January when the soil temps were maximum coldness so I did not get the best germination rates however I wanted wanted to have an early crop so this is just the price you pay to get going early in my climate however I’m going to now sew another crop of carrots

And radishes because I’m going to get better germination rates in the warmer soil this will be my early crop of carrots and radishes and then I will have a follow-up crop for later over here you can see a planting of beets that I actually planted at the tail end

Of fall the beats are actually in the front the monster stuff is charred in the back charred is more cold tolerant than beets that’s why it’s grown so much larger than the beets and the beets have stayed small beets kind of grow slow as molasses in the middle of the winter

With the weak sunlight and I was able to keep the beets protected under a frost cloth all winter long and they look great so because I was able to keep them alive all winter these are going to be my early beats that I’m going to probably be able to harvest at some

Point in April because the more intense Sun they’re going to really fire off and get going in the stronger Sun then I’m going to plant another crop in about a week that way I will have a staggered Harvest when my April beets are all done

I will be able to harvest the other crop all the way through May maybe even June if we don’t have a really hot spring veggie 17 are peas and that includes shelling peas snow peas and snap peas now peas are best grown directly into the soil not as transplants so because

Of that you need to wait until the soil temperatures become warm enough for the peas to germinate furthermore pee plant are fairly cold tolerant they can take a light to moderate Frost but the pods and the flowers cannot they are actually quite sensitive to hard freezes so I

Have to wait to sew my peas until all chances of hard freezes are pretty much over so that means I really have to wait until March our last frost date is somewhere around April 1st give or take a week on each side of the Season depending on the spring where you’re

Going to have so that usually has me sewing my peas somewhere around the first or second week of March that way they don’t germinate and break ground until about the last week of March the little tiny plants can tolerate a light frost if we get a late Frost no big deal

But then they’ll get going and grow nice and big and tall and strong in the warmth of April now the reason why you want to get your peas into the ground while it’s still cool out is because peas don’t tolerate very hot temperatures above 80° very well let

Alone 90° or more they get stringy they’re not tender they’re just not good so it’s very important for me that I get my pea harvest in in May before it gets really hot you definitely want them to be mature and picked before the hot weather of the summer comes veggies 18

And 19 that you can plant in March are onion sets and shallot sets now unfortunately if you want to grow onions and shallots from seed it is probably too late for you onion seeds take a long time to germinate and turn into adequately sized transplants and onions

And shallots bulb based on the day length they have to be mature enough that they start developing bulbs in June and July when the day length is really long or else you won’t get nice big bulb so if you want to start seed I’m sorry to say it’s probably too late I started

My onion and shallot seeds all the way back in the beginning of January but it is not too late to plant sets so if you go to a seed store a lot of times you can find a big scooper and buy onion and shallot sets by the pound and they look

Something like this now what an onion or shallot set is is a seed grown onion or shallot that they grew and then they started growing and then once they began to bulb they ripped them out they cut the green tops off and then they stuck

Them in a cool dry dark place and they went into dormy and then you buy the started onion or shallot and you plant it directly into the ground and they will generally speaking pick up where they left off so it is a more expensive way to do things but if you’re too late

Into the season it’s really the only way so while I do like growing onions and shallots from seed and I think that I often get better production like that this is a good way to hedge your bets so I really like planting them both ways because you never quite know what kind

Of year you’re going to have veggies 2021 and 22 that you can plant in March are leaks bunching onions and Romaine lettuce now it may seem weird that I clustered these three things together but that is because they are all the exception to the proverbial rule let me

Explain leaks are an alium so they’re in the same family as onions and garlic however leaks you do not Harvest for the bulb so it doesn’t matter what time of year you plant them they’re also very cold hearty and very heat tolerant believe it or not all of the leaks in

This bed are about 10 months old I planted them last spring along determinant tomato plants that were in this bed and all of the leaks are just sitting here hanging out just happy as a clam like in a giant refrigerator waiting for a leisurely Harvest whenever

I want so for that reason I like having leaks in all different stages of development in my garden Garden at all times these leaks were planted many months after the leaks I just showed you so once I harvest all the leaks in those beds these leaks will be taken over and

Ready to harvest so it’s about time I start some more leaks from seed we follow the same technique when growing bunching onions now bunching onions we do not Harvest for the bowl so we can plant them at any time of the year instead we Harvest these as green onions

Or spring onions we just bring out a pair of scissors or we snap them off as we need them for our dish now because you can Harvest these whenever you want I can leave them in my garden year round and keep cutting them down and then when the plants start

Getting tired and Woody you just replace them with new seedlings these are leftover from last year and I just had them underneath this Frost Fabric in this little hoop structure I made they survived two nights at 17 and 19° back to back no problem at all no damage most

People at least down to Zone 7 can grow these all winter long then we have our Roma lettuce well Roma isn’t like most lettuce most lettuce are quite cold hearty like this new red fire variety of lettuce that you see right here this has been out in my garden all winter long

With nothing more than this little agricultural fabric to protect it multiple nights in the teens no problem at all no damage to the lettuce however Roma lettuce is not cold tolerant it doesn’t like frost or freeze it is a warm weather lettuce so I can’t plant

Roma like I do all of my other cold tolerant lettuce my Roma is actually indoors on a Seedling heat mat underneath grow lights germinating they like warmer temperatures and I don’t plant them out into my yard until March when things get warm enough and the frost and the freezes stop in fact this

Head of romae lettuce right here is the only head that survived in my garden all winter long and it only survived because I covered it with a milk jug and then again with frost fabric over these hoops when it got cold so with double protection it still looks terrible it is

All burnt back and pretty much dying in here so don’t think that just because Roma is a lettuce that it likes Frost and freeze it can tolerate a very light frost but it doesn’t do well and it may take damage even then so because of that it’s very important that you treat your

Roma lettuce like a spring and summer vegetable and actually start the seeds indoors and Transplant them out into your garden once it’s nice and warm but once it starts getting above 85° during the day make sure sure you cover it with shade cloth 40% shade cloth is perfect

Otherwise it could bolt or become bitter n veggies 23 24 and 25 are basil parsley and cilantro also known as coriander and while you can start all of these things in March you need to treat them very differently basil of course is very sensitive to frost and freeze you need

To start these from transplant indoors and don’t bring them out into your garden until it is sufficiently warmed up and there is no more chance chance of frost and freeze once you transplant them out they will start growing very quickly now basil germinates pretty quickly especially on a Seedling heat

Mat with a soil temperature of about 80° you’ll probably get germination in only about 3 to 5 days then they will probably be ready to be transplanted out into your garden about a month later cilantro and parsley are both tolerant of cold temperatures I’ve had my cilantro survive below 10° fahr same

Thing with the parsley but they are both sensitive to heat cilantro also known as coriander is one of the most heat sensitive things I have ever seen and I have ever grown It Bolts as soon as temperatures regularly get above 70° so if you want to grow cilantro in your

Garden the window is very narrow I recommend that you direct sew it it will germinate quickly and then you’re going to have that narrow Harvest window now these are younger plants that I sewed directly that are just taking off these are older plants from Fall that are actually already bolting on me because

They’ve reached maturity so pretty soon these are going to be toast and the younger plants are going to start taking over while parsley is very cold tolerant it does not like the cold to the same level as cilantro whereas you saw my cilantro plants growing like weeds all

Throughout the cool weather The Parsley kind of holds still these are parsley plants that I direct sewed into my garden about 2 months ago and they’ve hardly grown at all this is one that I started indoors as a transplant and I direct plant it out but it hasn’t grown

Much parsley is slower to bolt but it still will bolt when gets very hot out so once temperatures regularly Eclipse 80 to 85° F if you cover it with 40% shade cloth or if you grow it as a potted plant and then move it into total

Shade it will do a lot better and it may make it through the summer and that right there are 25 veggies that you can sew right now in March so everybody I sure hope you found this video helpful if you did please make sure to hit that

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