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For those of us who love flowers and nature so much that we like getting our hands dirty, we have the following to-do lists for you to enjoy in your home gardens. To find your zone, visit the National Gardening Association.
Zone 1
- Order fruit and vegetable seeds, roses, bare-root trees and shrubs
- Check potted or container-planted bulbs for signs of growth
- Bring in pots of crocus and bulbous iris if leaves have formed
- Cut branches of pussy willow, flowering quince, forsythia to force indoors if buds are beginning to swell
- Freshen house plants with sprays or shower bath
- Sow seeds of cool-weather vegetables indoors
- Sow seeds of hardy perennials indoors
Zone 2
- Cut back on feeding houseplants (do not feed dormant houseplants)
- Water cymbidiums weekly until they bloom
- Sow seeds indoors for tender perennials
Zone 3
- Order seeds
- Cut back on feeding houseplants (do not feed dormant houseplants)
- Water cymbidiums weekly until they bloom
- Sow seeds for tender perennials
Zone 4
- Order seeds
- Sow seeds indoors for hardy spring-blooming plants
- Cut back on feeding houseplants (do not feed dormant houseplants)
- Sow seeds for cool-weather vegetables
- Sow frost-tolerant perennials indoors
Zone 5
- Order seeds
- Sow seeds for hardy spring-blooming plants
- Cut back on feeding houseplants (do not feed dormant houseplants)
- Sow seeds for cool-weather vegetables
- Sow frost-tolerant perennials indoors
Zone 6
- Order seeds
- Sow seeds of warm-season annuals
- Sow seeds for hardy spring-blooming plants
- Cut back on feeding houseplants (do not feed dormant houseplants)
- Sow seeds for cool-weather vegetables
- Sow frost-tolerant perennials indoors
Zone 7
- Order seeds
- Sow seeds of warm-season annuals indoors
- Plant ornamental trees
- Prune flowering fruit trees while in bloom
- Prune winter-flowering shrubs and vines after bloom
- Sow seeds of warm-season vegetables indoors
- Sow seeds for hardy spring-blooming annuals
- Plant or transplant cool-season vegetable seedlings
Zone 8
- Order seeds
- Sow seeds of warm-season annuals indoors
- Set out cool-season annuals
- Plant fruit trees
- Apply dormant spray to fruit trees
- Spray for peach leaf curl, peach leaf blight, and canker
- Cut back on feeding houseplants (do not feed dormant houseplants)
- Plant or repair warm-season lawns
- Plant ornamental grasses
- Plant or transplant frost-tolerant perennials
- Sow seeds for tender perennials indoors
- Plant bare-root roses
- Apply dormant spray to roses
- Plant bare-root trees, shrubs, and vines
- Prune winter-blooming shrubs and vines just after bloom
- Apply dormant spray to shrubs and vines
- Plant bare-root perennial vegetables
- Plant seedlings of cool-season vegetables
- Sow seeds for cool- and warm-season vegetables
- Protect tender plants from frost
Zone 9
- Sow seeds for hardy spring-blooming annuals
- Sow seeds of warm-season annuals indoors
- Plant summer-flowering bulbs
- Repot cacti and succulents, if essential, once they have finished blooming
- Plant bare-root fruit trees
- Apply dormant spray to fruit trees
- Spray for peach leaf curl, peach leaf blight, and canker
- Plant citrus
- Repair or plant lawns
- Plant or transplant frost-tolerant perennials outdoors
- Sow seeds for tender perennials indoors
- Plant bare-root roses
- Plant bare-root trees, shrubs, and vines
- Prune deciduous trees
- Prune winter-flowering shrubs and vines just after bloom
- Plant bare-root perennial vegetalbes
- Plant seedlings of cool-season or winter vegetables
- Sow seeds for cool-season or winter vegetables
- Sow seeds for warm-season vegetables indoors
Zone 10
- Order seeds
- Sow seeds for warm-season annuals
- Set out seedlings of warm-season annuals
- Set out summer-flowering bulbs
- Repot cacti and succulents, if essential, once they have finished blooming
- Plant bare-root fruit trees
- Prune flowering fruit trees while in bloom
- Spray for peach leaf curl, peach leaf blight, and canker
- Plant citrus
- Protect citrus from frost damage
- Feed houseplants that are growing or blooming
- Plant bare-root roses
- Plant bare-root shrubs and vines
- Prune evergreen shrubs
- Prune winter-flowering shrubs and vines after bloom
- Plant bare-root trees
- Plant or transplant cool-season vegetable seedlings
- Sow warm-season vegetable seeds
- Transplant warm-season vegetable seedlings
Zone 11
- Sow seed of summer annuals indoors
- Sow seeds of hardy vegetables indoors
- Improve soil by spading in humus
- Plant bare-root trees, shrubs, vines, roses
- Be ready to shelter tender plants against frost
- Finish dormant spraying
From BackyardGardener.com