Get a head start in the garden this month with our top gardening jobs for March.

🌱Cut back any perennials and ornamental grasses to make way for new growth.

🌱Dig a layer of compost or farmyard manure into your beds, and work in a fertiliser such as chicken manure or fish, blood and bone.

🌱Plant summer flowering bulbs.

🌱Trim winter flowering heathers once they have finished flowering.

🌱Deadhead daffodils as the the flowers finish, but let the foliage die down naturally.

🌱Top dress containers with fresh compost.

🌱Cover the prepared soil of vegetable beds with polythene to warm up the soil in preparation for planting.

🌱Prune bush and climbing Roses if not done so already.

🌱Cover strawberries with a cloche to encourage earlier fruiting.

🌱Plant shallots, onion sets and early potatoes.

🌱Feed ericaceous shrubs such as rhododendrons and camellias with an ericaceous fertiliser.

🌱Mow the lawn if needed with the cutting blades set on the highest setting.