What Albuquerque Gardeners Should Do in March:  

• Plant lettuce, radishes, carrots, peas, beets and turnips.  
• Plant cool season vegetables such as cabbage, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts and broccoli mid-month.
• Plant onion sets.
• Plant tomatoes in Early Season Plant Protectors.
• Plant second planting of lettuce after the 15th of March.
• Plant hardy annuals and perennials. Great time to divide summer and fall blooming perennials.
• Plant strawberries, rhubarb and asparagus.
• It’s a great time to plant trees and shrubs. See our planting guide for specifics.
• Water and feed evergreens.
• Water and fertilize trees and shrubs.
• Water and fertilize perennial gardens.
• Fertilize cool season lawns early in March.  Use Jericho’s Sure Green; it has a 16-8-8 formula with iron and sulfur for our New Mexico soils.
• Apply Bonide pre-emergent.
• Re-seed cool season lawns in mid to late March.
• Good time to sod cool season lawns.
• Apply Bonide All Seasons Dormant Oil, if not already done, before bud open. Dormant oil, lime sulfur 3 weeks later.
• Remove heavy winter mulches and replace with fresh cypress or pecan mulch by late March.
• Prune berry and grapes in late March, except Heritage raspberries, which are pruned in fall.