Planting
· March is an ideal time to plant evergreens and hedges. Be sure to water them when the weather is dry.

· Plant gladiolus corms and also sow hardy annuals once the soil is well-drained.

· Herbaceous perennials should be lifted with a fork and divided using two forks to prise them apart.

· There's loads to do in the veggie garden this time of year. Get your seed potatoes sprouting by putting them on end in a box on a cool window ledge or in the shed.

· Sow carrots, sprouts, parsnips, spinach, broad beans, parsley and radishes. A few weeks later plant some more, and so on. This will give you a succession of plants so you don't have too many ready at a time.

· Indoors sow onions, leeks and celery. Celery needs to be kept at a constant 10ºC in order to grow happily when planted out.

Maintenance
· Deadhead any daffodils or other bulbs that are looking past it, this will stop them wasting energy on flowers and concentrate more energy on fattening up the bubs.

· Slugs and snails will happily gorge themselves on all the new shoots and leaves in the garden, so whatever your line of defence, be it slug pellets, beer, oats, gravel or dancing naked in the full moon, put it into action now!

· Give strawberries a top dressing of compost so they have plenty of organic matter to feed on.

Read on for more March maintenance and Pruning Tips from Sven, plus how to ask him a question of your own.