What's in Season - March Produce Guide (2024)

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What's in Season - March Produce Guide? ›

March. As the March weather gets milder in many places, you can often find fresh greens like spinach, Swiss chard, and collard greens. Green beans, broccoli, radishes, and mushrooms are super fresh at this time of year, too. When shopping for fruit, look for strawberries, mangoes, and kiwi.

March. As the March weather gets milder in many places, you can often find fresh greens like spinach, Swiss chard, and collard greens. Green beans, broccoli, radishes, and mushrooms are super fresh at this time of year, too. When shopping for fruit, look for strawberries, mangoes, and kiwi.

March is a good month for lychees, mangoes and pomegranates. Gariguette and Frais de Bois strawberries are available from France and Spain.

Climatologists usually use full months to represent the seasons. Winter is considered December, January and February; spring is March through May; summer is June through August; and fall or autumn is September through November.

Spring: March, April, and May. After the winter, where fresh fruit may not be in season, the spring is a welcome time for apricots, melons, and some berries. Classic combinations like strawberry rhubarb inspire fresh, vibrant dishes that liven up your meals after a long winter.

In late February to early March, start cabbages, kale, broccoli, cauliflower, onions, leeks, endive, escarole, fennel, lettuce, and artichokes indoors. In mid- to late March, direct sow peas, spinach, fava beans, and arugula outdoors. Start peppers, tomatoes, eggplant, Swiss chard, and tomatillos indoors.

March is a month for harvesting the last of the crops that have remained in the ground over winter, such as parsnips, leeks and Brussels sprouts. It's also time to start harvesting forced crops such as rhubarb, and early spring crops like early spring cabbages.

Citrus. Oranges, grapefruits, tangerines, and lemons are all at their peak during the winter months. I included them in the January Produce guide, and they are still in season in February. These fruits are high in vitamin C and can help to boost the immune system during cold and flu season.

What month is March famous for? ›

According to our calendars, March is here again—a month where we celebrate Women's History Month, St. Patrick's Day and more!

March is a particularly windy month because of the large differences in air pressure that frequently develop as a result of the large differences in air mass temperatures which generate storms.

Meteorological spring is considered to encompass the months of March, April and May. The other meteorological seasons each also consist of three consecutive months: Meteorological winter comprises December, January, February. Meteorological summer comprises June, July, August.

What's in season in March? Check out recipes for asparagus, artichokes, broccoli, broccolini, watercress, arugula, mustard greens, green garlic, spring onions, leeks, spinach, chard, and fennel!

Cherries, which are tasty and nutritious, start to emerge in May and are at their peak from June to August. But May also brings sweet, delicious fruits like apricots and pineapples. Plus, rhubarb and strawberries are still in season.

Winter, occurring from December to February.

Moderate temperatures year-round with sunny days and cool, humid nights create the perfect conditions for growing strawberries. Unlike Florida, the second strawberry-producing state in the US, where the berries can be harvested between March and November, California has a 12-month growing season.

January: Pickled beets, cranberry jam. February: Pickled onions, turnips, and sweet potatoes. March: Rhubarb sauce, pickled carrots. April: Pickled radishes, pickled asparagus.