March monthly garden work

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It’s spring . The birds singers are flying around . Now they need homes
to hatch. So are there nesting-boxes? If not, hurry up and scold them. Places can be varied. One of them can be tied to a tree, the other nailed to the house vaults or raised above the roof , the third attach to the high cartel – which can be attached to the fence or corner of the greenhouse. Point nesting-boxes to the east or southeast. The rising sun will wake up birds .
Lets stoke the furnace. The heat is good for house, ash for the garden. Collect them. Liquor produced from the ashes – a good way to protect gooseberries, blackcurrants against fungal diseases (trails). It can be made and at home.

Take 300 g of ash, pour a little water and boil for about 30 minutes. Then the fluid has to be removed, and diluted with10 liter of water. Sprinkle or spray shrubs with it. It can be done 2-3 times every week. More ash you can sift under the bushes. They contain potassium, calcium, magnesium and there’s no harmful chloride. Keep some ash and for strawberries. They have to be sprinkled after the flowering.
It is time to spill mineral (potassium and phosphorus) fertilizers. The fertilization rate can be indicated only approximate. For better results, you should determine how much potassium and phosphorus is in the soil. If you don’t have this information, you should remember how the plantations grew last year, to know the composition of soil. Light soil has to be fertilized more with the organic and mineral fertilizers. Therefore, you should break out 4-5 kg of superphosphate, 3-4 kg of potassium on Are (100.m2) ( potassium sulfate should be used for currants).

At the end of the month, you can start to prune the trees, you will need to have sharp tools: saw, pruning knife, clipper. Trees should be pruned from the ladder, because by climbing the tree, you can break off many twigs of fruit, and branches which are needed for whorl. All wounds made during pruning and thinning should be lute with garden ointment. You can buy it in household goods store or make it at home. It’s recommended the following composition: one part lard or oil, two parts of wax and three parts of rosin. Wax can be replaced by paraffin and rosin by resin of conifers.

Obtain and water-based emulsion paint which is used for painting the walls. As mentioned above, using them (diluted to 6-8 times) you can not only bleach tree trunks and thicker branches, but also protect fruit trees from cancer. You should add 2-3 percent fundazol or any other fungicide and lute with it cancerous lesions. In addition, cancer can be treated with nigrol mixed with wood ashes (7: 3).
In March, the seedbed is prepared to sow stratified seeds. You have to make some boxes, put some manure, better horse manure, and on top of it pure the substrate (clean sand). Seedbed has to be covered with glazed windows, or window frame, covered with polyethylene film from both sides. It should be covered with straw at night.
Periodically check the condition of grafts. If there is no snow and ice melted, they can be tied on the string let down in to the well so that the bulb of grafts could reach a water just a bit.
If you have bees, do not forget clean varnish, and if it’s grew warmer to 12 – 13 °, then clean the bottom to, remove the marginal combs and insulate the nest very well on all sides.

If you have no mineral fertilizers, you should buy them in March. If the soil for considerable periods of time was abundant trust of organic fertilizers, it is rich in nutrients available to plants, even without fertilizer the good harvest can be produced. Do not try to fertilize vegetables, as this may give the reverse effect. Let us not forget that many of the vegetables as carrots, cucumbers, onions are sensitive to high nitrogen and potassium salt concentrations. Ample fertilizer nitrogen fertilization of vegetables taste worse, it takes worse in the winter and in autumn it takes long to ripe. In addition,if you fertilize them with nitrogen fertilizers, the production abundant nitrate, which has a negative impact on human health. If the garden soil is not rich with organic material, the order that the vegetables were abundant, it should be enough fertilized with mineral fertilizers. it is sprinkled in the garden with different amounts, depending on the type of vegetables. vegetables growing in 10 m2 should have 0,2 – 0,5 kg of nitrogen, 0.3 to 0.7 kg of phosphorus and 0.1 to 0.6 kg of potassium fertilizer. Planning how much fertilizer you need, remember that vegetables yield per hectare takes about 20 – 40 kg nitrogen, 10 – 15 kg of phosphorus and 30 – 50 kg of potassium-active material, which roughly equals about 100 kg of potassium nitrate and 50 to 90 kg of superphosphate. If the soil is a lot of mold, do not worry about microelement fertilizers – the plants entirely sufficient. If there is a little mold in the soil, the microelement fertilizer increases the yield and improve its quality. Crop production, produced without fertilizers, and more regarded as nutritional assessment.

Do not forget stored potatoes, verify condition and regulate temperature and humidity. Time to sow early Cabbages, cauliflowers, Brussels, and other red cabbage, celery, leek, spice vegetables, then tomatoes, chili and other vegetable witch like warm seeds in boxes. Let us not forget that in the warm weather and insufficient light, the plants quickly spindle, so it’s best to grow below 20 ° C. It is time to sow green vegetables in heated greenhouses. Cover spring greenhouses with polyethylene film that they could gradually go out ambushes, the soil could get warm and dry. It’s time to start sprout early potatoes. Tubers may be added to the thick layer in boxes or ventilated polyethylene bags, even strung on twine and hang in light. Review the garden. Places where the multi-annual and Biennial vegetables (sorrel, rhubarb, onions, parsley and herbs)is growing, accelerate the melting of snow, by removing it from the surface or by sprinkling surface with peat or ash.

Greenhouses planted with Celosia, Verbena, petunia, red-blossom sage, Chinese pink. Celosia likes heat, light and moisture. Sown in boxes, sprout after two weeks. It’s held from 15 to 18 ° C. Sprouts is sown only after danger of frost, in early June. Celosia isn’t sensitive to replanting, friable planted in the fertile land that could be fertilized with manure. Grow well and abundantly blooming in sunny spots. It’s for three months from sowing to flowering. And it’s blooming until first frost. Rainy summer seeds hardly become mature. Celosia seeds ripen starts the first month after blooming start. Matures gradually. Seed germination continues for five years.
Verbena develops slowly, and therefore is sown in the boxes in March. Seeds grow differently. It’s held from 15 to 18 ° C and sprouts after three weeks. If the temperature is higher, for example 20 – 25 ° C they sprout after two weeks. Duration is of 3.5 months from sowing to flowering. It’s blooming until late autumn. If it’s planted in sunny place it’s blooming great even in poor or sandy soils. In Lithuania seed matures in hot dry summer. Seeds begin to mature month after plant blooming is over. Mature quickly passes. One gram holds about 400 seeds. They remain germination for two years.
Petunia is sown in mid-March or at the end of the box. Seeds are small, so easily sprinkled with sand. Sown in a rare distances they get ill if it’s sown near. They sprout in 10 – 12 days. They need to be held in 18 – 20 ° C. When the seedlings grow, reseed in 2 × 3 cm. They start blooming in the 70 – 75 days. Seeds mature. They remain germination from 3 to 4 years.

Petunia tolerate drought well, not demanding to soil, grow well and rainy summer. It’s Blooming till the late frost.
Red-blossom sage sown in boxes in early March. It’s light and moisture loving flowers. Sensitive to frost, frost damages and weakens them. Grow well on light sandy loam and loam soil. It’s lasts for 120 days from sowing to flowering. It’s blooming until the first frost, one bloom is blooming for 3 days. The seed matures and are collected gradually, as the ripe soon pass. Dry summer sage produces less. Seed germination remain till 5 years. The older seeds are, the less germination is produced. In Lithuania variety with red flowers are common. However, there are varieties of pink, white and purple flowers.
Matthiola, godeces, Chinese sweet- are sown at ten-second.
Chinese sweet- loves the light and heat. It’s sensitive to spring and autumn frost. It can’t stand the fresh manure. Seeds sprout after week. Bloom starts after 70 – 90days and lasts till frost. The Blooms are solid, white, dark red, purple. Seed germination remains 4 years.
Penstemon likes a sunny location, heavier fertilized soil. It’s planted in the boxes in March. Flowering last from June to October. It’s reseeded in the permanent location in May, in 20 – 25 cm distance.
In order to have a halo before flowering, it is necessary to sow them in March in the boxes or the seedbed. Before sowing seeds need to soak potassium permanganate (1 g per liter of water) solution for 15 minutes. After that wash them with water and sown. Plants get sick less if there seed is pour with a clean river sand when it is sown. Best germination is reached from 18 to 20 ° C, it sprout after 7 days. Sufficient to grow the plants from 15 to 16 ° C. It’s starts blooming after 4 months. Seed germination continues for three years. One gram is about 300 seeds.
This month reseed Begonias, Lobelias, multiplied pelargonium cuttings, chrysanthemums and a variety of houseplants. Tuberous begonias rather rare breed propagated cuttings.
Houseplants grows intensive. They need to be abundantly watered and fertilized.