The first month of spring is still quite cool, but despite this, it is time to get ready for work in the garden. Even with severe frosts, some action can still be taken.
Work on the beds
Above the beds with crops that were made before winter, as well as those intended for planting early vegetables, install arcs and cover them with polyethylene. Also, if possible, insulate the place for potatoes, areas with perennials: onion, asparagus, rhubarb, lemon balm, sorrel, etc. This will allow the earth to warm up, provide early ripening, which is necessary for faster production of vitamins. Source: www.ikea.com
In a well-lit area, you can build a greenhouse for seedlings, so that it takes up less space at home. It is made in the form of a wooden box. The southern partition is 15 cm lower than the north. Cover with polyethylene or glass.
It turns out the shelter stretched at an angle. The greenhouse is necessary for better heating and draining of the liquid. It can be made from a window frame by fitting a base under it.
If March is not cold, at the end of the month you can sow tomatoes in the greenhouse. In the first days of planting, you need to cover with a second layer of polyethylene. If you suddenly freeze, you need to have a warm blanket on hand to protect the greenhouse.
Work in the room
The main actions of gardeners in March occur in room conditions. The crop yield depends on the quality of seedlings.
First of all, you need to think about boxes for plants. You can use wooden or plastic containers, cassettes. It all depends on what exactly allows you to use the area of the room, on the desire to further dive.
If you plan to grow a lot of seedlings, and there is not enough space on the windowsills, then the plants need to be sown very compactly. It is recommended to use small boxes of wood (in them rhizomes will not freeze, do not overheat) or cassettes. Later, seedlings from them can be dived in cups or in a greenhouse.
Soil mix for sowing can be purchased in a specialized store (better tested, which has already been used). It can also be prepared independently from leafy soil, humus, turf, peat, sand.
Sowing
When pepper and eggplant are planned to be grown in the garden without shelter, they are sown for seedlings in mid-March. And tomatoes in the second decade of the month. With further transplantation into an unheated greenhouse, sowing can be done a couple of weeks earlier.
Last year’s landing containers must be disinfected or at least doused with boiling water to destroy a possible infection.
Put 1-2 cm drainage on the bottom. Pour the prepared soil on top, compact, pour (the mixture of soil is 15 mm below the container walls). Put it near a sunny window or near heating appliances so that the earth warms up.
Deepen the pepper by 1.5 cm, and eggplant and tomatoes by 1 cm. Sowing should be done in a moist substrate. After placing the seeds a little tamp, cover the container with a film. Before emergence, keep containers with pepper and eggplant at a temperature of + 26 ... +29 ° C, with tomatoes at + 23 ... +25 ° C.
In early March, you can sow early cabbage, celery, onions, potatoes for tubers for the next season:
- Fill plastic cups with humus, turf and sand.
- Pour and deepen the seeds 10 mm.
- Put in a pallet, cover with a film or glass, put in a warm place (+ 18 ... +20 ° C) until sprouts appear.
- After biting the first shoots, transfer to a cool place (+ 8 ... + 10 ° C).
- After a week, increase the daytime temperature to +15 ° C, leave the nighttime +10 ° C.
- Pour potassium permanganate solution to prevent the appearance of a black leg.
Seedlings can be replanted in open ground or in a greenhouse, depending on the region, after 1.5 months.
It is also recommended to sow greens:
- parsley;
- marjoram;
- oregano;
- tarragon;
- thyme;
- lemon balm;
- peppermint;
- seedling salad.
Helpful information! Many gardeners are in a hurry to plant basil in March. This is not recommended because he may become ill or begin to stretch.
Seedling Care
After the appearance of the first sprouts, rearrange in a bright place so that the seedlings do not stretch out. After a week, lower the temperature to + 12 ... +15 ° C for tomatoes, to +18 ° C for eggplant and pepper (if possible). This is good to do for a better and faster development of the root system.
Also, seedlings need to be regularly watered so that the soil does not dry out (but avoid excessive moisture).
Turn over the landing containers on different sides periodically so that the sun falls on all sprouts equally.
If there is no dive of nightshade crops, at the stage of 3-4 leaves, you need to make nutrient mixtures. You can use complex nutrition with a high phosphorus content.
Sprouting potato
They begin to do this after March 10, in order to land in April. You need to spread the tubers in a bright, cool room. Pay attention to their condition, they must be healthy, without spots.
The material that gave the thin shoots is better to throw away, because it is likely that he is infected with infections.
February dive seedlings
Cabbage planted in February can be dived into separate cups when forming 1 real leaf. When transplanting seedlings, deepen to cotyledon leaves.
After the formation of 2-3 real leaves, you can dive and February celery. If there is no way to do this, the ranks should be at least thinned out. Crowding negatively affects productivity, and the likelihood of fungal infections increases.
In conclusion, I would like to add that if seedlings planted in March are stretched, the reason must be sought in agricultural technology:
- high temperature (it can be reduced with frequent ventilation, but plants should be protected by covering them from heating devices with a damp cloth);
- lack of lighting (install phytolamps, wash windows to better penetrate sunlight, thin out rows or make reflective screens);
- excessive humidity (water moderately, after drying of the top layer).
Observing these simple recommendations, it will turn out to grow strong seedlings, which in the future will give a rich harvest.
Favorable and unfavorable sowing days in March 2020
When it is possible and undesirable to plant crops:
Vegetables and greens | Favorable dates | Unfavorable |
Tomatoes, greens | 1, 4-6, 13-14, 17-18, 22, 27-28 | 9, 24-25 |
Sweet pepper, dark nightshade (eggplant) | 1, 4-6, 13-14, 22, 27-28 | |
Cucumbers, cabbage | 1, 4-6, 11-14, 22, 27-28 | |
Radish | 11-14, 17-18, 22, 27-28 | |
Greens | 1, 4-6, 13-14, 17-18, 22 | |
Garlic | 13-18 |
In what numbers can flowering plants be planted, and in which not
Good and bad March numbers for planting decorative flowering plants:
Kinds | Favorable | Unfavorable |
Annual, biennial | 2-5, 10, 15, 22, 27-28 | 9, 24-25 |
Perennial | 1-3, 13-15, 19-20, 25, 27-29 | |
Tuberous, bulbous | 10-18, 22 | |
Indoor | 2,7,16,18,20 |
Lunar calendar of gardeners for March 2020
Below are recommendations for the performance of work by date
Legend:
- + high fertility (fertile signs);
- +- medium fertility (neutral signs);
- - poor fertility (infertility).
1.03
♉ Taurus +. The moon is growing ◐
It is not recommended to carry out manipulations that can harm the rhizome.
Gardeners | To flower growers | Gardeners, general work |
In the greenhouse and at room conditions, taking into account the region and the growing season:
| sowing perennials. |
South: planting trees, shrubs, fertilization. Center, North: check shelters, airing as necessary. |
2.03-3.03
♊ twins -. The moon is growing ◐.
Do not moisturize and fertilize.
Gardeners | To flower growers | Gardeners, general work |
It is not necessary to sow tomato, eggplant and pepper. | planting curly and ampelous specimens. |
2nd of March: South: work with roses, grapes, vines, wild strawberries, transplanting, processing. Center: if it has snowed, shed hot bushes from diseases and pests. March, 3rd: South: we prepare beds, form flower beds, dig the soil. Center: prepare greenhouses, check garden tools. You can not do cropping. |
4.03-05.03
♋ cancer +. The moon is growing ◐.
Do not use chemicals.
Gardeners | To flower growers | Gardeners, general work |
Auspicious day for planting vegetables. South:
Center, North: In the greenhouse, indoors:
| sowing of cold-resistant annual plants. |
|
6.03-7.03
♌ Leo -. The moon is growing ◐.
Gardeners | To flower growers | Gardeners, general work |
Under the polyethylene and in the room:
Do not plant vegetables, pinch pinch. | South:
| February 6: Do not trim. South: planting berries. February 7th: can be cut and shaped. Center:
|
8.03
♍ Virgo +-. The moon is growing ◐.
Gardeners | To flower growers | Gardeners, general work |
Vegetables do not plant. | The most successful day for planting any flowers. | Laying potatoes for germination. |
9.03
♍ Virgo +-. The full moon ○. Do not carry out work.
10.03-11.03
♎ Scales +-. The moon is waning ◑.
It is undesirable to soak and germinate seeds and apply chemicals.
Gardeners | To flower growers | Gardeners, general work |
|
| anti-aging pruning. South: planting stone fruits. Vaccination is prohibited. |
12.03-13.03
♏ Scorpio +. The moon is waning ◑.
Not recommended transplant, pruning, dividing.
Gardeners | To flower growers | Gardeners, general work |
| sowing ornamental plants. |
|
14.03-16.03
♐ Sagittarius +-. The moon is waning ◑.
It is undesirable to water, crop.
Gardeners | To flower growers | Gardeners, general work |
In greenhouse and room conditions:
|
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South: scalding gooseberries and currants |
17.03-18.03
♑ Capricorn +-. The moon is waning ◑.
You cannot work with the root system.
Gardeners | To flower growers | Gardeners, general work |
In warm conditions:
| planting of tuberous, bulbous and perennial specimens. |
|
19.03-21.03
♒ Aquarius -. The moon is waning ◑.
You can not water, transplant, fertilize, plant fruit plants (they will not sprout or the seedlings will be sick).
Gardeners | To flower growers | Gardeners, general work |
| work from the list of allowed. |
|
22.03-23.03
♓ fish +. The moon is waning ◑.
It is undesirable to do pruning, work with the ground, apply chemicals.
Gardeners | To flower growers | Gardeners, general work |
Warm:
| planting of any decoratively flowering plants. | vaccination. |
24.03
♈ Aries +-. New Moon ●. The plants are weakened, do not carry out any actions with them.
25.03-26.03
♈ Aries +-. The moon is growing ◐.
It is undesirable to trim and shape, transplant, root, top dress, pinching, watering.
Gardeners | To flower growers | Gardeners, general work |
| permissible work is not included in the prohibited. |
North: sheltering, in the absence of the threat of severe frost. |
27.03-28.03
♉ Taurus +. The moon is growing ◐.
Do not loosen the ground near the rhizome.
Gardeners | To flower growers | Gardeners, general work |
| South Center: transplant perennial. |
South Center: |
29.03-31.03
♊ twins -. The moon is growing ◐.
It is not recommended to transplant, water, feed.
Gardeners | To flower growers | Gardeners, general work |
| sowing seeds of curly and ampelous flowers. |
South: planting berry and ornamental shrubs. Center: Honeysuckle pruning, if there are no kidneys yet. North: preparing greenhouses and hotbeds for planting. |
The best dates for landing are registered, but this does not mean that this cannot be done on the remaining dates.
The main thing is not to carry out manipulations in the full moon and new moon.