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In most areas, March is the month when sowing
starts to get under way, but if your soil
is still to wet or its cold, warm it up
with cloches, fleece or black plastic, and
delay sowing or you could be wasting your
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We can still be occupied in the greenhouse
sow, Aubergines, indoor cucumbers, indoor
tomatoes, chilli/sweet peppers one or two
seeds in small pots ½ in deep and place
in a heated propagator or greenhouse.
Outdoors we can still sow Broad beans, sow
in double rows spacing the beans 8-9in apart,
sow leeks in a seedbed ½ in deep in short
rows about 8 in apart giving them plenty
of space to develop if you intend to plant
them where you grew your early potatoes.
Sow Basil thinly in pots and put them in
a heated propagator. |
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Brussels sprouts, summer cabbages can be
sown into a seed bed that's been raked smooth.
Sowing them ½ in deep towards the end of
this month. Alternatively, sow two seeds
in a small pot thinning to the strongest
and allowing them to grow on under cover
until they are ready to transplant not forgetting
to harden them of before planting out.
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Sow peas in a flat bottom drill I use a
spade making a drill a least 6 in wide and
2 in deep and then space seeds 3 in each
way allowing the height of the peas between
rows if sowing more then one row.
Now is the time to plant early potatoes
if the soil is workable, plant the tubers
12 in apart in rows 2 ft apart, I normally
make a trench with a spade and fork in some
manure and set the tubers 5-6 in deep, sprinkling
slug pellets in trench to keep down the
black keel slugs.
Cauliflower's calabrese, sow early varieties,
they can be sown in a seed bed but they
often do better if sown in small pots or
modules in a cold frame or cool greenhouse.
Self-blanching celery and celeriac can be
sown in pots in a heated propagator or in
a heated greenhouse.
Sow lettuce in modules every two weeks to
have a continuous supply through out the
growing season, and plant them out 12 in
apart when large enough after hardening
them off.
Now is the time to sow parsnips ½ in deep
, I sow them every 4 inches 3 seeds and
thin them out when they are big enough to
handle, in between the clumps of parsnip
seeds sow a few radish seeds these germinate
quickly to mark the rows as parsnips take
along time to germinate at least 3 weeks,
you can cover them with fleece or cloches
to warm the soil and hasten germination.
Tomatoes
Brussels Sprouts
Cauliflower
Kale
Leeks
Garlic
What are Western Brassicas ?
Month by month diary on jobs to do
Allotment Preparation |
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