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Fruit Garden in March
 
Week 9   26th-4th

Take eye cuttings of outdoor or cold house grapes

Week 10   5th-11th

Spray early flowering fruit trees

Apply a fungicide to pears at bud burst stage to control scab disease.

Prune leading growths on peach trees

Feed Blackberries

Mulch outdoor grape vines

Prune plum trees

Week 11   12th-18th

Spray plum trees

Week 12   19th-25th

Mulch sweet cherries with well rotted manure

Plant out fig trees

Feed Black & red currant

Feed Plum tree

Week 13   26th-1st

When frost is forecast protect early flowers on fruit trees with agro- fleece, proprietary thermal screens, or old net curtains.

Mulch wall fruits with garden compost or old manure.

Keep an eye open to ensure newly planted Apple &  Pear trees are not drying out.

Remove all frost damaged fig shoots

 
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