Want to enjoy your garden’s harvest all year round? To do this, there’s nothing like following the rhythm of nature! Discover the fruits and vegetables to harvest in March.
The month of March represents a period of transition between winter and spring, and already marks the return of fine weather in the South.
While waiting for the explosion of flavors next month, seasonal vegetables are more numerous in March. Fruits are slightly down with the end of the citrus season.
Vegetables to harvest in March
In March, winter vegetables such as leeks, cabbages and other root vegetables still occupy a large place in the vegetable garden. But this month also marks the arrival of new vegetables that will allow you to vary your recipes while waiting for spring!
- Swiss chard : Swiss chard is an old vegetable plant that has made a strong comeback on our plates in recent years. Appreciated for both its leaves and its stems, the famous Swiss chard ribs, it lends itself to many preparations. Tasty, healthy, and very good for your health, Swiss chard is also very easy to grow!
- Asparagus: emblematic vegetables of spring, the first asparagus appear in March. Appreciated for their subtle flavor and crunchiness, asparagus takes a long time to obtain (about 4 years of waiting between planting and the first harvest), but provides beautiful harvests for 15 to 20 years!
- Spinach : the bane of children who eat in the canteen, spinach is, like chard, a delicious and easy-to-grow vegetable plant. You can enjoy the young shoots raw, prepared in salads or smoothies, and reserve the fleshiest leaves for savory dishes such as pies or delicious ricotta and spinach lasagna.
- Salsify : a forgotten root vegetable, salsify also left its mark on the minds of children who ate in the canteen. However, it is a delicious vegetable, with a slightly aniseed and sweet taste, which lends itself to many preparations! Sautéed, in a gratin, with a dish in sauce… Simply blanch them in boiling water before preparing them.
- Scorzonera: nicknamed black salsify, scorzonera belongs to the same family as the latter (Asteraceae). Recognizable by its black or brown skin, it offers white flesh with a taste similar to salsify, although more pronounced. Its straighter and longer roots make it an even more productive and easy to prepare vegetable.
Fruits to be harvested in March
March marks the end of the citrus season, although you may still find grapefruit or tangerines on market stalls. While there are no orchard fruits to harvest this month, you can still make delicious desserts with produce from your garden and vegetable patch.
- Rhubarb : although it is botanically considered a vegetable plant, rhubarb is treated like a fruit on our plates. In regions with a mild climate, and provided you have planted your rhubarb at the beginning of autumn, you can enjoy its sweet and tangy tasting stalks from March onwards, delicious in pies and compotes!
- The fruits of the Ebbing chalef : appreciated for its evergreen foliage, the Elaeagnus ebbingei , or Ebbing chalef, is an ornamental shrub generally used to create garden hedges. Its autumn flowering, melliferous and fragrant, gives way in winter to small ovoid fruits which ripen until spring. If you live in a region where winters are mild, you can enjoy these fruits from March in jellies or jams.
