
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.