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WILL HART'S GARDENING DIARY   MARCH   FRUIT   ·         All planting of trees and bushes completed early in the month.   ·         Prune cobnuts and filberts if not done in February.   ·         Apply potash to cane fruits.   ·         Mulch young trees, bushes and cane fruit.   ·         Apply nitrogen to blackcurrants.   ·         2nd application of nitrogen to pears in grass.   ·         Protect blossom on wall-trained trees if frost; hand pollinate if early flowering - no insects.   ·         Untie and retrain canes of blackberries and related fruits, which have been bundled together against winter damage, train on wires before bud burst.   ·         Prune blueberries.   ·         Plant strawberry runners.   ·         If aphids present spray with a systemic fungicide.   ·         Spray apples and pears against scab.   ·         Spay blackcurrants against leaf spot, mildew, and grey mould, spray for aphids.   ·         Spray gooseberries for gooseberry mildew.     LAWNS   ·         If the weather and ground conditions are good, rake the lawn of any leaves and winter debris, do not rake to vigorously and damage the grass.   ·         If there have been frosts during the winter then the best idea is to lightly roll the lawn.   ·         The first cut of the season should be just a topping with a later cut during this month.   ·         Apply moss killer if necessary.   ·         Using a half-moon straighten all the lawn edges.     GARDENING BY MONTH Gardening in January Gardening in February Gardening in March Gardening in April Gardening in May Gardening in June Gardening in July Gardening in August Gardening in September Gardening in October Gardening in November Gardening in December     The above helpful advice has been reproduced by kind permission of Will Hart, whose experience includes working for Blackburn Rovers FC (as a groundsman at their Training Ground, Academy and Ewood Park), for the Sultan of Oman (at his French residence in Fontainebleau, south of Paris) at the 1999 Martell Grand National at Aintree and for a variety of different sized local gardens and estates.  Impressive credentials I am sure you will agree! Copyright © 2000-2012 Hints and Things All Rights Reserved. No portion of this site may be reproduced or redistributed without prior written permission from Hints and Things. All trademarks & copyrights throughout Hints and Things remain the property of their respective owners. Hints and Things cannot be held responsible for any information given on this site nor do they necessarily agree with, or endorse, the views given by third parties.