Gardener's Checklist, March

Gardener’s Checklist

March 2021

Garden Maintenance

  • Clean-up beds containing spring-blooming perennials and bubs.
  • Full Wooden Compost BinTurn your compost pile once it has completely thawed.
  • Learn how to trouble shoot your compost pile throughout the year from our Orange County Master Garden Volunteers.

Composting Workshop – Cornell Cooperative Extension Orange County

  • Wait to prune spring-flowering trees and shrubs until right after bloom.

Someone using a pair of pruners to remove a small branch (close-up)Pruning Ornamental Trees and Shrubs – Purdue Extension

  • Prune summer and fall blooming trees and shrubs.
  • Learn more about pruning from our Orange County Master Garden Volunteers.

Pruning Workshop – Cornell Cooperative Extension Orange County

HouseplantsHouseplants

  • Start feeding houseplants again and water more frequently.
  • Continue to monitor your plants for infestations and disease.

Houseplant Problems : Diagnostic Chart – University of Maryland Extension

Vegetable Gardening

  • Clos-up of a sugar snap pea pod growing on the plantPlant peas outdoors as soon as the soil can be worked.
  • Plant cold season crops at the end of the month (onion sets, lettuce, radishes, spinach, turnips, leeks, etc.).

Vegetable Planing Guide – Cornell Cooperative Extension

  • Wicker basket full of lettuce, tomaotes, peppers, beets, turnips,onions and a sprig of mintStart growing seeds indoors for warm-season vegetables.  Start tomatoes later in the month to avoid leggy plants in May.
  • Whether you are a beginner or an experienced vegetable gardener there is always more to learn. Sign-up for a vegetable gardening class.

Vegetable Gardening Classes – Cornell Cooperative Extensions

The ground is still covered with snow, but by the end of the month we should start seeing the first blooms of spring!

Floweres of a pink and white varigated Hellebore
Hellebore