How do you know you are ready for spring? When you catch yourself taking a big whiff of the dirt-caked bottoms on your winter-stored potatoes. Guilty.

I don’t know if I’m low on some dirty mineral or if I’ve just had it with hibernation season and need to scratch and sniff some soil, but there is something about the way these muddy spuds smell that have me going back for a second whiff. If someone reading this right now is a smarty-pants science person, maybe you could comment below what my problem is along with a list of multivitamins I should start taking. In the meantime, I’m going to stick with my hillbilly, self-diagnosis: Ain’t no two ways about it friends, I’ve got spring fever. And the only cure I know of for spring fever is to get my hands on all things green.

So, in honor of St. Patrick’s week, I’ve put together a little list of our favorite ways to March into the season of green, even while waiting for the snow to melt! Of course, for those of you who don’t live in the Great North, you may already by elbow-deep in dirt already. Lucky you! For those of you who are winter warriors like me (or trying to be anyway), we are still on the other side of that rainbow, squinting our eyes to see the pots of black gold and glittering green waiting for us at the end! Whether you’re enjoying the start to the warm season, or just warming up for it, we hope you find a few inspiring ideas below to kick off gardening season!

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7 Green Things to do in March!

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1. Swap out your Sewing Basket for a SOWING BASKET.

Change your gardening life and sort your seeds vertically!! Check out how I organized this Sowing Basket here.

2. Sow… in the snow?

That’s right! Winter sowing is a lazy green-thumb’s dream. In mere minutes, you can sow dozens of seeds and then happily neglect them for weeks on end. That’s my kind of gardening.

Learn how to winter sow.

3. Boost your growing space with Birdies Raised Beds!

This will be our fourth gardening season with our Birdies beds and they are still growin’ strong! If you are on the hunt for raised beds, we highly recommend these.

For all our reviews and tips on using these raised beds, see these posts:

• 12 Reasons We LOVE Our Raised Birdies Beds
• You bought your beds, now make ’em! Assembling 🐦Birdies Raised Beds🐦
• Five Gardening Decisions that made ALL THE DIFFERENCE for our first growing season on the homestead!

4. Go out on a limb, and start a food forest!

We have a major perennial problem around here. If we find a free spot, we can’t help but pop in a tree, shrub, or berry bush. As addictions go though, it’s a pretty healthy one.

Read how our fruiting journey began with 91 trees, shrubs, and bushes, here.

5. Space out.

Also known as plan (or maybe plant) ahead.

The time to plan your garden space is now (especially if you can already get into the soil). Your seedlings may be little squirts right now, but in a few blinks they will be big, lanky, hungry teenagers that will want some independence and room to sprawl out. Anything you can do now, I highly recommend you start now before you have to do things like weed, water, stake, and mulch. Also, I highly recommend taking out with you a measuring tape, pencil, and notepad. Trust me, you won’t remember how many feet it was tomorrow.

Things to think about spacing out:

• Where the raised beds, deep beds, and planters go.
• What you will grow in each bed or row.
• Where your new trees will grow.
• Where the chicken coop, play structure, fire pit, or pergola will go.
• Or, if you’re in a warmer zone, it may be time to grow baby, grow!

6. Make a Worm Compost Bin!

We LOVE worm composting. It’s so easy and an absolute work horse for the garden. If you don’t have a worm compost system, you are majorly missing out!

Access our easy, DIY Worm Compost Bin Tutorial here.

7. Ready, set, chicks!

I’m not sure what makes me happier, the eggs or the piles of poop for the compost pile! Confessions of a hippie homesteader. From coop, to run, to farm-fresh eggs, follow all our chickening adventures in the “everything we did” posts on our homesteading page.

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Thanks for reading! Hope you all have a wonderful growing season, green-thumb friends!

Love, ~Candace Arden~

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