March Garden Chores In Texas

Good morning! It is now past the middle of March and I am finally getting around to adding March garden chores...

March garden chores include pulling up any dead plants and roots, cleaning up plant debris left behind from last fall, and testing the soil pH in your raised garden beds. .

Once the danger of frost is past, begin to transplant your seedlings outside. Make sure that you harden them off first!

Prepare and build more garden beds if that is what you were planning to do.

Buy new baby chicks if you will be adding to your flock. I know. Chicks are hard to find this year. If you did not plan ahead and make an order online, you will have to take your chances at the feed store. Everybody wants chicks now because of the high egg prices. Don't get chicks until you have read about how to care for them. 

March garden chores can include stirring compost into your raised beds. Weed garden beds first and then add the compost. Some gardeners add worms into their beds as one of many March garden chores.  As helpful as worms can be, some can eat your garden seeds; insects already in the ground can eat them, too.

March garden chores include cleaning up from last years if you did not do that in the fall. For me, March garden chores include dead heading my rosebushes since I still have not done that.

Also, for me, March garden chores include weeding the flower beds out in front of our Farm Store. There are weeds and also little zinnias growing in the flower beds. I will not pull up the zinnias but I do need to pull up the weeds. After the icy freezes we have had, I did not think anything would come up.

Other March garden chores include taking care of the plants in my greenhouse. Some need to be replanted while others need to be divided and put in other pots.

If you have not yet started planting your cool season vegetables out in the ground, you should. In fact, you are probably a bit late for peas, spinach, lettuce, onions, and broccoli. 

Start the warmer things indoors under grow lights. Of course, if you did not plant your tomato seeds in January indoors, you are way late and you should just buy some plants for spring and start your tomato seeds indoors in July so you can plant them in early September for the fall season.

If you have your tomato plants ready, plant them as soon as the danger of frost has passed. Hopefully, the extreme heat will stay away long enough for you to get some amazing tomatoes this season.

If you will be planting bulbs, go ahead and get those in the ground. We do not carry bulbs, just seeds.