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At Armitage’s, we have all that you need to welcome the new season into your garden and home and some great gift ideas for Mother’s Day and Easter! So here are our top tips for what you could be doing in March!
Feed your lawn
March is the perfect time to start feeding your lawn with a granular lawn fertiliser and if weeds are a problem then save yourself time, money and effort by using a granular weed and feed or one with moss killer if this is an added problem.
Grow plug plants and seedlings
Buy your bedding and patio plug plants and seedlings now for growing on – and produce your biggest and best bedding displays ever. Look out for the latest varieties, including all your favourites for potting up and then planting out after the frosts in beds, borders and into containers and baskets.
Nurture your plants
All garden plants will benefit from being fed now as they start to come into growth. Use a general granular fertiliser or blood, fish and bone – or a controlled-release fertiliser for a once-a-year feed.
Rejuvenate houseplants
This is the perfect time to rejuvenate your houseplants! Start by re-potting those houseplants that need bigger pots to flourish in. And this is the time to start giving all your houseplants a good feed. If you can’t remember to feed regularly, controlled-release fertilisers are a great way to simply feed and forget.
Tend to your roses
Give your roses the perfect start to the year. Hybrid tea, floribunda and climbing roses benefit from pruning during early March. You’ll need a pair of strong, quality secateurs, and good, thorn-proof gloves. Then feed with a granular rose fertiliser to ensure a mass of perfect blooms this summer, and mulch with composted bark or well-rotted manure.
Add some colour
Plants grown for their colourful stems – such as dogwoods, ornamental bramble and some bush willows – will produce more intense colours if the stems are cut back hard now.
Introduce a herb garden
Herbs are not only good to grow for the kitchen – many also have colourful flowers and foliage, so plant some today. They can be planted in a herb bed, mixed in with other plants in beds and borders, or grown in pots on the patio where they’ll be handy to pick and provide excellent colour and scent.
Feed your fruit trees
To ensure bumper crops of fruit this year, give trees and bushes a good feed with a balanced granular fertiliser, then add a good thick mulch of compost, composted bark or well-rotted manure.
Sow bedding plants
If you have a heated greenhouse or similar warm, light place, then you can get a lot of your bedding plants and vegetables off to a flying start by sowing them now.
Look after your pond
Keep your pond looking good this year by spending a little time on it now. Check pumps and filters and replace if necessary, remove pondweed, divide overgrown plants and restock with new plants.
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