Be taught the month-to-month backyard duties to your gardening hardiness zone. Are you aware what your hardiness zone? As soon as recognized, then discover the required process.
Zone 1
- End planting bare-root bushes, shrubs, roses
- Prune roses, then apply dormant spray
- Apply dormant spray to bushes and shrubs earlier than they leaf out
- Spade or until backyard beds as quickly because the soil is workable
- Divide summer- and fall-blooming perennials
- Feed evergreens, fruit bushes, shrubs, and lawns
- Sow seeds of cool-season greens
- Sow seeds of hardy perennials open air after heavy freezes have handed
- Order summer-flowering bulbs (canna, calla, dahlia, gladiolus, elephant ear)
Zone 2
- Sow seeds of warm-season annuals indoors
- Water cymbidiums weekly till they bloom
- Feed cool-season lawns
- Sow seeds for cool-weather greens
- Sow frost-tolerant perennials indoors
- Divide and replant summer- and fall-blooming perennials
- Plant bare-root and container roses
- Prune roses (when temperatures are above freezing)
Zone 3
- Sow seeds of warm-season annuals indoors
- Water cymbidiums weekly till they bloom
- Plant seedlings of cool-weather greens
- Sow frost-tolerant perennials indoors
- Sow seeds for frost-tolerant perennials
- Sow seeds for tender perennials
- Divide and replant summer- and fall-blooming perennials
- Plant bare-root and container roses
- Uncover roses for spring and apply dormant spray
- Plant balled-and-burlapped, container, and bare-root shrubs and vines
- Plant summer-blooming shrubs and vines
- Plant frost-tolerant bushes
Zone 4
- Set out cool-season annuals
- Sow seeds of warm-season annuals
- Set out summer-flowering bulbs
- Plant fall-blooming bulbs
- Plant balled-and-burlapped, container, and bare-root fruit bushes
- Apply dormant spray to fruit bushes earlier than buds swell
- Spray apples, peaches, and pears which were affected with canker issues
- Plant, feed, and aerate cool-season lawns and loosen thatch
- Plant bare-root perennial greens
- Plant seedlings of cool-weather greens
- Sow fast-growing warm-season greens
- Sow seeds for frost-tolerant perennials
- Plant container and bare-root roses
- Uncover roses for spring and apply dormant spray
- Plant balled-and-burlapped, container, and bare-root bushes, shrubs and vines
- Apply dormant spray to bushes, shrubs, and vines
- Plant summer-blooming shrubs and vines
- Plant frost-tolerant bushes
- Plant needle-leafed evergreens
Zone 5
- Set out cool-season annuals
- Sow seeds of warm-season annuals
- Set out summer-flowering bulbs
- Plant fall-blooming bulbs
- Plant balled-and-burlapped, container, and bare-root fruit bushes
- Apply dormant spray to fruit bushes earlier than buds swell
- Spray apples, peaches, and pears which were affected with canker issues
- Plant cool- and warm-season lawns
- Plant bare-root perennial greens
- Plant seedlings of cool-weather greens
- Sow fast-growing warm-season greens
- Sow seeds for frost-tolerant perennials
- Sow seeds for tender perennials
- Plant container and bare-root roses
- Uncover roses for spring and apply dormant spray
- Plant balled-and-burlapped, container, and bare-root bushes, shrubs, and vines
- Apply dormant spray to bushes, shrubs, and vines
- Plant summer-blooming shrubs and vines
- Plant frost-tolerant bushes
- Plant needle-leafed evergreens
Zone 6
- Set out cool-season annuals
- Set out seedlings of warm-season annuals
- Set out summer-flowering bulbs
- Plant fall-blooming bulbs
- Divide and replant crowded winter- and spring-blooming bulbs after leaves yellow
- Plant balled-and-burlapped, container, and bare-root fruit bushes
- Spray apples, peaches, and pears which were affected with canker issues
- Plant everlasting floor covers
- Plant and aerate lawns and loosen thatch
- Plant bare-root perennial greens
- Plant seedlings of cool-weather greens
- Sow fast-growing warm-season greens
- Sow seeds for frost-tolerant perennials
- Sow seeds for tender perennials
- Divide and replant spring-blooming perennials after bloom
- Plant container and bare-root roses
- Uncover roses for spring and apply dormant spray
- Plant balled-and-burlapped, container, and bare-root bushes, shrubs, and vines
- Apply dormant spray to bushes, shrubs, and vines
- Plant tender shrubs and vines
- Plant summer-blooming shrubs and vines
- Plant frost-tolerant bushes
- Plant needle-leafed evergreens
Zone 7
- Prune winter-flowering shrubs and vines after bloom
- Plant summer- and fall-flowering bulbs
- Spray for peach leaf curl, peach leaf blight, and canker
- Plant everlasting floor covers
- Plant or restore lawns
- Plant decorative grasses
- Plant bare-root and container roses
- Plant or transplant warm-season annuals
- Plant fruit bushes
- Spray dormant fruit bushes
- Prune frost-sensitive fruit bushes
- Feed houseplants which are rising or blooming
- Plant heat-loving perennials
- Uncover roses and apply dormant spray
- Plant decorative and evergreen bushes, shrubs, and vines
- Apply dormant spray to bushes, shrubs, and vines
- Prune spring-flowering or tender shrubs and vines throughout or simply after bloom
- Plant vegetable seedlings
Zone 8
- Set out annuals
- Plant summer-flowering bulbs
- Plant balled-and-burlapped and container fruit bushes
- Prune frost-sensitive fruit bushes
- Spray for peach leaf curl, peach leaf blight, and canker
- Feed houseplants which are rising or blooming
- Plant or restore lawns
- Plant decorative grasses
- Plant fall-blooming perennials
- Prune tender deciduous shrubs and vines
- Prune spring-flowering shrubs and vines throughout or simply after bloom
- Prune flowering fruit bushes throughout or simply after bloom
- Sow seeds for warm-season greens
- Plant seedlings of warm-season greens
Zone 9
- Sow seeds of warm-season annuals
- Plant fall-flowering bulbs
- Feed and water cacti or succulents which are blooming or actively rising
- Repot cacti and succulents, if important, as soon as they’ve completed blooming
- Prune deciduous and frost-sensitive fruit bushes (when temperatures are above freezing)
- Spray for peach leaf curl, peach leaf blight, and canker
- Feed houseplants which are rising or blooming
- Restore or plant lawns
- Plant tender and heat-loving perennials
- Prune spring-flowering shrubs and vines throughout or simply after bloom
- Sow seeds for warm-season greens
- Transplant warm-season vegetable seedlings
Zone 10
- Plant annuals for summer time shade
- Plant fall-blooming bulbs
- Feed and water cacti and succulents which are rising or blooming
- Spray for peach leaf curl, peach leaf blight, and canker
- Feed houseplants which are rising or blooming
- Prune spring-flowering shrubs and vines throughout or simply after bloom
- Transplant warm-season vegetable seedlings
Zone 11
- Sow seeds of summer time annuals open air or indoors
- Feed and water cacti and succulents as they begin progress
- Set out peppers, tomatoes, eggplant
- Set out crops of summer time annuals
- Feed and water lawns as progress accelerates
- Feed and groom home crops as progress recommences
- Plant gladiolus and dahlias
- Divide overgrown fall-blooming perennial clumps
- Clear away scrub progress for hearth safety
- Reduce reward chrysanthemums and transplant to backyard. Break into particular person crops
