Sowing suggestions - March

[FionaH]

This is going to be a month by month sowing thread. Please post what you are sowing each month, along with any good tips. (no discussions whether it is a good plan or not please ) Hopefully this will help new gardeners get to grips with succesional sowing too.
The thread will be cleared each month with the sowing tips posted in the Growing Techniques Forum.
One good resource is the RHS veg growing calender Veg calendar | Royal Horticultural Society.

[chris]

Looks like the Veg Calendar on the RHS site isn't working.. you can't access it via searching for it on their site either.

Going to have a look what I'm sowing later, but just about to plant out some garlic cloves and onion sets.

[FionaH]

Started chitting parsnips and sown some broadies

[Nicos]

Peppers, toms and swiss chard so far.
Spuds chitting away wonderfully!

[ladylottie]

Have put parsnip seeds and celeriac seeds to sprout (hopefully!) on kitchen paper. First time growing celeriac.

[SunnyU]

I have chillies, aubergines and courgettes on the go. Hoping to start some tomatoes and leeks this coming week.

[Jillyreeves]

So far this month I have started off some Chillies and Aubergines in my heated propagator. Peas have been sown in loo roll middles in my unheated conservatory ready for planting out in a few weeks. Also started some first early and salad potatoes in tubs, will earth up as they grow and keep them in the conservatory until the risk of frost has passed them put them out on my patio.

[Bex]

Yesterday I sowed a short row of carrots, parsnips, lettuce, calabrese and broccoli raab under cloches on the lottie. I've got chillis, aubergines, toms and sweet peppers germinating at home. I've also put some squashes and sunflowers in the heated prop.

[ginger ninger]

Tomorrow I'm sowing Peas, according to a friends moon calender that's the best day, I've sown my Leeks, shallots, Swiss chard and extra broad beans, I'm chiting parsnips today on kitchen paper.

[chris]

Hooookay.. I'll be sowing:

Kale.
Baby Carrot (ideal) - for us in containers, apparantly v.fast cropping & can be sowed from Jan onwards.
Turnips.
French Beans (I think they are anyway) - probably this weekend.

I've also done some parnsips (4 different ways - chitting on wet cotton (no kitchen roll!) on a plate covered with clingfilm in the kitchen (light), and again in the airing cupboard (dark), direct sowed, and also in toilet rolls in a heated propagator). Never grown them before, but after searching the forums I've seen so many people have issues with them I thought I'd try every method!

[elsie-scot]

So far:
In heated propagator -chilli and sweet peppers
In propagator on window sill - tomatoes, peppers, alpine strawberries and basil
In unheated greehouse (first year with GH so bit of a trial) - peas, broad beans, onion sets, shallot sets,marigolds, nasturtiums, sweet peas
In root trainers but in sheltered bit of garden - garlic (ground not ready yet)
Planted some fruit trees and bushes

Quite a bit more to do this month!

[Newbie]

This month so far (i.e today!) i have sown Teasel, Sweetpeas, Beef tomato, Basil & Cosmos. Lots more to be sown but going to try & do it in little batches & not all at once like i normally do & flood the greenhouse, kitchen, spareroom etc etc with seed trays!

[Newbie]

Today i also sowed Echinacea, Delphinium & Leeks. Yesterday the cosmos sowed on the 8th made an appearence too.

[tiachica]

I'll be sowing peas and planting my spuds under fleece. As I am out of the country from March 26th to April 14th I'll wait with everything else thereafter.

[ZeroMac]

I'm going to try tomorrow planting onion sets in modules to start them off before planting out on the lottie.

Never tried this before, but it worth a go