pop out planting out . Spring planting begins in earnest this calendar month , both for ornamental plants and in the vegetable garden now that the grease is ready to be worked and the temperatures have regulated .
Do n’t forget to mulch the veggie garden . Once your seedling have emerge , check that you mulch your garden bed with 2 to 4 inches of constitutive matter . Mulch will help fight the weeds that tend to show up in droves this calendar month , while also assist conserve water and regulating soil temperature , which will be essential as our temperatures soar .
Reach out to would - be gardeners . March in the Southern Plains is so beautiful that it tends to be the best time to inspire friends and family to try their hand at horticulture . Or it can be the promiscuous time to recruit helpers for all those leap tasks .
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