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Fruit Jobs in March Fruit trees should be planted at once. Give a mulch of well-rotted manure after planting. Protect apricots and peaches on walls with netting. Grafting is best done this month. Make new strawberry plantations. Limewash fruit trees before the blossoms open, to keep down pests such as green-fly. Hoe between the fruit trees to destroy weeds and make the soil sweeter. Gooseberries and currants sprayed with paraffin emulsion will not be attacked by red spider and brown scale. Cut back autumn-fruiting raspberries to within an inch of the ground and give a top dressing of well-decayed manure. Summer-fruiting raspberries should be tied to supports. Stake all standard and half-standard trees. The tying material should pass between the stake and the tree.

Vegetable Jobs in March Sow broad beans, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and Brussels sprouts in lines or boxes for transplanting later. Sow carrots, leeks, parsnips, kohl rabi, spinach, swede, garden turnips, marrowfat peas and early potatoes in the open. Sow mustard and cress, lettuce, radishes and onions for salads, and the tender vegetables: broccoli, cauliflower, celery, cucumber, and also tomatoes and alpine strawberries in a hotbed. Prepare new beds for globe artichokes. Watercress can be sown now in moist trenches. Potatoes can be planted now. Divide and replant chives.

Harvest in March
Broccoli	- See recipes
Cabbage	- See recipes
Cauliflower	- See recipes
Celeriac	- See recipes
Leeks	- See recipes