Order your seeds
Get your seeds ordered and find something wonderful for this season’s garden. Check the seeds you already have on hand before ordering so you don’t duplicate varieties.

Tomato preparation
If you know where your tomatoes will be planted this year, cover the bed with black landscape fabric to raise the temperature of the soil. At planting time, the soil will be a little warmer and that’s just what tomatoes love.

Fruit tree prep
If temperatures rise into the high 40s or 50s, spray fruit trees with dormant oil on a calm day. It will suffocate pests, and it’s a great organic way to deal with them.

Garden planning
Plan, plan and do more planning. It’s one of the fun things about gardening. Draw a sketch of what should go where.

Seed Starting With Doug Oster
Whether you like veggies, herbs or flowers, starting from seeds is fun, rewarding, economical, and probably easier than you think! Everybody Gardens editor Doug Oster will be teaching the keys to starting seeds indoors. His classes are not only packed with great info, they are loads of fun! So whether you’re a seed-starting expert or you would like to try for the first time, you don’t want to miss this class.
6:30 p.m.

Start your lettuce
Start some lettuce or other cool-weather greens inside at the end of the month. It will be fine on the windowsill and can go out in the garden in just three or four weeks. There’s nothing in mid to late March that can stop a cool weather crop like lettuce.