March tips in your Garden

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"Whether you tend a 

garden or not, you are the

gardener of your own 

being, the seed of your

destiny."

The  Findhorn Community

Days are starting 

to get longer 

which is truly wonderful.

  

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1. If you don't currently 

have a garden

but desperately want 

to grow something

get some old egg boxes, 

buy some seeds like cress

or parsley and plant 

them in some 

compost on your window sill.

2. Cover them over 

with some cling film 

idealy and leave them 

in the light.

3. Leave them alone 

apart from a little water 

and wait until some growth 

starts to appear 

through the compost. 

4. It is pure delight when 

your little seeds start to show 

through the compost.

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Some helpful tips 

for beginners

Snowdrops, crocuses 

and daffodils 

grow from bulbs.

 

They have to be planted 

during the autumn

 so they will flower 

in the spring.

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5. This is just an example 

of a shrub that I have just 

pruned in my garden.

By this I mean, cut off 

its dried seed heads

and cut it back so

 it looks tidy and

ready for the new 

growth to start over 

again. 

So the leaves you 

see is the new 

season's growth.

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This is a winter herb 

which is healthy but needs 

to be cut back, removing

 the old dead growth

 so it will keep growing well. 

We gardeners like a tidy plot.

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More gardening tips for March

6. As it is still early in the year

if you can't wait any longer,

then buy little vegetable

plant plugs to grow indoors.

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They can be peas 

or broad beans.

But they need to be 

in direct light on 

a window sill 

where they can keep 

growing evenly.

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7. We need to start 

thinking about

using our home made 

compost around our plants.

Here are two compost 

containiers 

which I have in 

my garden. They are just 

for woody stems and 

bigger garden compostable 

branches, raked up grass etc.

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Composting is a really 

importatnt part of 

having a garden.

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If you do not have 

a lot of space you can

 buy large composter bins. 

Like these ones here. 

I have two large 

composter bins which 

I fill up with vegetable 

scraps,egg shells, 

cardboard etc.

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