This year I’ve started to use my favourite social media channel Twitter / X as my Daily Updates channel. I like this type of social media as in a few sentences and a photo (microblogging), I am able to update any of my followers as to what is happening in the Vegetable Garden in that week and as it happens.

Daily Vegetable Growing Updates

If you would like to see what I’m sowing or potting on in my Greenhouse, on a sunny windowsill and 4 Raised Beds, Follow me on Twitter / X to get your daily dose of Vegetable Growings and Sow your seeds along with me.

Share your sowings

I’d love it if you shared your sowings on Twitter / X with me, I can’t wait to see what you are growing! Follow me and I’ll follow you back – Let’s Grow Together.

My Daily Tweets will be released everyday between 12pm and 2pm GMT London time.

Follow Me on Twitter / X @justmetraceyb

Vegetables Sowed and Growing in March

If the Daily Tweets are not your thing, don’t worry because at the end of every month, I’ll be updating you on what I have been sowing, growing and harvesting in that Month.

The Monthly Timeline will hopefully be a very useful Growing Summary to refer back to it next year and it’s also a great reminder, if you wanted to sow something on the list.

March Growing Locations

I’m currently growing…

In an Un-Heated Greenhouse

• Onion sets,
• Basil & Coriander seedlings,
• Violet (flower) seedlings,
• Leek seedlings.
• Apricot tree in a pot – out in white blossom.
• Peach tree in a pot – out in pink blossom.

On a Sunny windowsill Indoors

• Sweet Peppers,
• Tomatoes.

Outdoors in a Raised Bed

• Broad Beans,
• Winter Lettuce,
• Chives,
• Garlic,
• Autumn Carrots,
• Perpetual Spinach.

In Pots

• Potatoes.

March Sowings Timeline

My Vegetable Garden is located in the South East of England, UK so timings may be different for your area of the UK or world.

My Greenhouse is in the sunniest spot in the garden and it is sheltered on two sides by a fence.

Weekend 10-11 February

• 🫘 Broad Beans sown in root trainers in the unheated greenhouse.

Weekend 17-18 February

• 🫑 Sowed Sweet Pepper seeds on an indoor windowsill.

Weekend 24-25 February

• 🫑 Sweet Pepper ‘Napia’ (red) & ‘Tangerine Dream’ (orange) germinated.

Weekend 9-10 March

• 🫘 Broad Beans ‘Elenora’ germinated in the unheated greenhouse.
• Leek ‘Oarsman F1’ seeds sown in root trainers in an unheated greenhouse.
• 🧅 Planted Onion ‘Hercules F1’ sets in cell trays in an unheated greenhouse,
• 🧄 Planted Garlic cloves in a Raised Bed.
• 🌿 Sown Basil ‘sweet’ & Coriander ‘calypso’ seeds in cell tray with lid in an unheated greenhouse.

Weekend 16-17 March

• 🫛 Peas ‘Twinkle’ sown in an unheated greenhouse – not germinated yet.
• 🫘 Broad Beans Elenora’ Planted out in raised beds. (No Cover).
• 🧄 Garlic rooted and shooting in Raised Bed.

Weekend 23-24 March

• 🍅 Tomato ‘Cherrola F1’ & ‘Orange Cherry’ seeds sown on an indoor windowsill – not germinated yet.
• 🫑 Potted on Sweet Pepper ‘Napia’ (red).
• 🥔 1st Earlies Potatoes ‘Casablanca’ planted in pots.
• Leek seeds germinated.
• 🌿 Basil ‘sweet’ seeds germinated.
• 🧅 Onion ‘Hercules F1’ have sprouted in cell trays in an unheated greenhouse,

Weekend 30-31 March

• 🌿 Coriander ‘calypso’ seeds germinated.

Vegetable Guides written in March:

Sweet Peppers

• Part 1 📕 Origin, Nutrition & Types
• Sweet Peppers Tangerine Dream & Napia have germinated
• Potting on Sweet Peppers with short Video.
• Last years: Timeline of Rams Horn Peppers with photos.

Broad Beans

• Part 1 📕 Origins, Nutrition & Growing Conditions
• Part 2 📗 Free PDF – Comparing Varieties
• Part 3 📘 Free PDF – Sow, Grow, Harvest Checklist
• Next Steps: How to Plant Out your Broad Beans in a Raised Bed with video.

Tomatoes

• Part 1 📕 Pick of the Veg Crops – Origins, Nutrition & Reasons to Grow
• Part 2 📗 How to Sow Tomato Seeds with Short Video
• Part 3 📘- How to Choose a Tomato Variety to Grow
• Next Steps: Setup a Tomato Watering System in the Greenhouse

Onions sets

• How to Grow Onions in cell trays with Planting Video

Spring Garlic

• Mid March – Is it too late to plant Spring Garlic?

Potatoes

• How to Plant Potatoes in a Pot

Vegetables to Sow in March

• Vegetables to sow in March

Let’s Grow Together – Nature Artists

• Things that have caught my eye this week – Natures Artists