List of Things to do for March

• Fertilize perennials. Lime as soil test shows need.
• Prune roses when vegetative buds swell. Fertilize and lime as test shows need.
• Fend off hungry rabbits with dried blood, a commercial repellent or a mulch of prickly prunings.
• Plant dormant roses, lilies, perennial and biennial plants.
• Enjoy blooming snowdrops, squills, crocus, hellebores, primroses, heaths.
• Start seeds of tender vegetables needing 10 to 12 weeks before settling out.
• Plant hardy seeds marked "as early in the spring as the ground can be worked" as soon as a handful of soil from a spade's depth will crumble rather than making a soggy ball.
• Root cuttings of sweet potatoes on a sunny windowsill.
• Fertilize asparagus.
• Prune, repot, propagate as plants resume active growth.
• Begin fertilizing when active growth begins.
• Keep potted spring-flowering bulbs and cyclamen, cinerarias, calcerolarias where nights are cool, as low as 50 degrees.
• Begin a "rainy season" for cacti, watering once a week, to induce flowering.