March Garden Guide: The Ultimate Guide to Florida Gardening

Wondering what you should plant in your Florida Vegetable Garden in the month of March? Check out this Florida Gardening Video where I give lots of Florida Gardening Tips to help you have a successful Florida Garden. When you are new to Gardening in Florida, you need all the help you can get so that you start a Florida Food Forest, grow a Central Florida Vegetable Garden, add color in your Tropical Garden, enjoy the best Florida Friendly Landscaping, and add Florida Native Plants.
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0:00 What to plant in March?
0:17 Florida Vegetables
8:10 Florida Herbs
8:56 Florida Fruits
11:58 Florida Flowers
18:48 Florida Gardening Tips

[MagpieMarconi]

Having Florida specific gardening videos, advice, and discussion is so helpful! Love the channel!

[wildflowers]

Everglades Tomato Tip- I always eat them right off the plant, but first I squish out the seeds and throw them right into the dirt before I eat the remainder of the tomato! Now I have tomatoes popping up all over the garden with zero effort! A++

[ckeeley]

I put my okra in the air fryer with olive oil and spices and it is crunchy, very delicious!

[lilmak]

Hi Jackie, do you have hummingbirds? Could you do a video on them? When do they arrive in the area, what are the best plants to plant and how many plants does one need to be able to support a hummingbird without making nectar substitute? 😊 please 🙏 😁

[Collington]

My favorite new Florida pollinator plant is the Bidens Alba (Spanish Needles) version by Proven Winners. It’s called Campfire Marshmallow and the bees love them just as much as the naturally occurring native. I have three in my garden and they’ve been blooming since January, the bees love them, and they’re beautiful.

[CVoyage]

For tomato beefsteaks, I hope to have my parthenocarpic varieties within the next couple years. No pollination required and higher production. To keep bugs off, use organza bags at blush. Beefsteaks are a must grow for most. I'd also suggest other winter squash in the moschata/mixta family vs seminole. The taste is better.

[em]

I'm gonna start my sweet potatoes today. My seminole pumpkin vines survived the winter and are already weaving their way thru my back yard! I love this time of year. Thanks for all the great tips! 😎

[davidklug]

You can't beat Amaryllis for "big bold" flowers. Here in Clearwater, they are easy and very happy. Ours have just started.

[teachwithwoolf]

I love your channel so much! I’m in Tampa (hey neighbor!) so it’s incredibly helpful. I started a garden this year and your videos have helped me so much. You keep it interesting, don’t drag on, and I love the pictures and labels you include.

[Collington]

Love that you mention the pink and yellows tabs, they’re my favorite. Also, best Florida food forest tree for me has to be the loquat. They’re making fruit prolifically in my area right now and they’re delicious and beautiful. Plus they have naturally occurring pectin which means that they’re very easy to make jelly with.

[johngault]

Be prepared to freeze and/or dehydrate you banana yields to make them worth the effort. Another Blue(ish) flower this time of year is Spiderwort and the bees love it...and of course it's a weedy native -- forgive me, but I love weeds!!

[christinamoeller]

The March overview was very helpful to know what are good vegetables and flowers to start growing.

[paulinswfl]

Here in Englewood, FL it's nice to finally have some decent weather. This winter was terrible. My go "to's" during the summer are beans, okra, and a few different Asian greens. Also jalapenos and serranos. I need to try the Everglade tomatoes. I can't find them anywhere.
Not a fan of growing sweet potatoes because once you plant them, that's pretty much all you can grow in that bed from my experience over the last ten years.

[cindyfulk]

Great March tips! Thanks. You mentioned cabbage. I only grow it in the winter. It is our best producing vegetable in our winter garden! No worries about a couple frosts or freezes. They withstand it. And NO BUG ISSUES. 😃We plant it every couple weeks thru September and October. Usually start harvesting late January and thru March.

[melanielinkous]

I'm in Zone 9 in north central Florida. Noodle Beans and Jack beans are very easy to grow here. I don't have much luck with traditional green beans. Great content!

[Florida]

I started chef choice tomatoes last year. Not only did they grow all summer they are also restarting new ones around in the yard

[yari]

For y’all that don’t know, roselle is the same as sorrel or flor de Jamaica. So you can use it to make sorrel drink if you’re from the Caribbean, or agua de Jamaica if you’re Mexican. It’s so good.

And I like to call the pink tab trees Florida’s cherry blossoms. 😂

[st]

Thanks so much! I have Seminole pumpkin seeds, but those dang vine borers....

[kevinmenard]

I live on the border of 9b/10a and have grown spring slicing tomatoes for years without having to give in to the bugs. Make no mistake, by the time we get into July they're cooked, but a little BT every 10-14 days goes a long way!

[lisataylor]

Your videos have become my Friday morning coffee ritual. Thanks for another great one, I always look forward to them! An added suggestion for my Southern neighbors is blue porterweed (Stachytarpheta jamaicensis). It’s a host or nectar for many butterfly’s and is also a bee magnet in my garden. Blooms are edible and leaves can be brewed into tea. It flowers fully in summer but here in zone 10a will partially bloom all year. Make sure it’s the native variety, not Stachytarpheta cayennensis, which is invasive in FL.