I keep a note in my diary regarding the weather conditions each day and although it seemed that we had quite a few sunny days actually we also had quite a lot of rain at the beginning of the month (an extension of a rather stormy February). The full moon in March is apparently called the Worm Moon because it's supposed to be the time when worms become active in the earth and start to turn the soil over. The moon seemed to have an orange glow. Perhaps it was due to particles of sand in the atmosphere as some people have recorded that they had sand dust settle on the ground and on their vehicles? There have been sand storms in the Sahara Desert.
Here in South Yorkshire there have been occasional nights of frost although on the whole the weather has been quite mild in the daytime. Thankfully we have the covered yard to protect many of our plants in pots. Mr P started to transfer some tomato plants into the greenhouse this month. In the vegetable plot he's growing chard and purple sprouting broccoli, but he's now limited for space there. However, every little helps to supplement our diet especially green vegetables.
Christmas/Easter Cactus in the hanging basket,
pots of Dog tooth Violet or Erythronium 'Pagoda' and Fritillaria 'Uva'
I bought a small camellia the other day which Mr P has repotted. It needs to be grown in ericaceous compost. The nectarine sadly has leaf curl disease so probably no nectarines will develop this year.
Hyacinths and 'Paper White' narcissi growing in the garden.
