What to sow and plant in March

These are the jobs that come round in March for a garden in the middle of England. If you garden in Cornwall you are roughly a fortnight ahead of this list; in the Highlands you are up to ten weeks behind it, and following a national calendar is how seedlings get killed by a frost that was always going to come.

Sow indoors or under cover

Sow outdoors

Ready to harvest

Plant

Vegetables and fruit to plant out

Trees, shrubs, bulbs and perennials

Prune

How much March shifts where you live

Where you are	Average last frost	Average first frost	Growing season
South West Coast and Cornwall	late March	early December	260 days
South Coast and Channel	late March	late November	240 days
Greater London (Urban Heat Island)	late March	late November	250 days
South East and Home Counties	mid April	early November	215 days
East Anglia	mid April	late October	195 days
Midlands and Lowland Wales	late April	late October	190 days
Wales and West Coast	mid April	mid November	210 days
Northern England	early May	late October	175 days
Scotland Lowlands and Central Belt	early May	mid October	165 days
Scotland Highlands and Islands	late May	late September	120 days
Northern Ireland	mid April	early November	205 days
Channel Islands and Isle of Man	mid March	early December	250 days