Supplied is a listing of duties you could carry out in your backyard throughout December. Please perceive your gardening zone which is recognized within the menu above. Search for Hardiness Zones.
Zone 1
- Proceed pruning deciduous bushes and roses
- In coldest areas, shield roses with earth cones or wire baskets stuffed with insulating materials
- Hold reward home crops as cool and vivid as attainable
- To stop breakage, brush snow from evergreen limbs
- Hold dwelling Christmas bushes away from scorching air registers
- Order seed and nursery catalogues
Zone 2
- In the reduction of on feeding houseplants (don’t feed dormant houseplants)
- Water cymbidiums weekly till they bloom
- Water dwelling Christmas bushes (ice cubes work nicely)
- Prechill tulips and hyacinths for forcing indoors
Zone 3
- In the reduction of on feeding houseplants (don’t feed dormant houseplants)
- Water cymbidiums weekly till they bloom
- Water dwelling Christmas bushes (ice cubes work nicely)
- Prechill tulips and hyacinths for forcing indoors
Zone 4
- In the reduction of on feeding houseplants (don’t feed dormant houseplants)
- Water dwelling Christmas bushes (ice cubes work nicely)
- Prechill tulips and hyacinths for forcing indoors
Zone 5
- In the reduction of on feeding houseplants (don’t feed dormant houseplants)
- Water dwelling Christmas bushes (ice cubes work nicely)
- Prechill tulips and hyacinths for forcing indoors
Zone 6
- In the reduction of on feeding houseplants (don’t feed dormant houseplants)
- Water dwelling Christmas bushes (ice cubes work nicely)
- Prechill tulips and hyacinths for forcing indoors
Zone 7
- Order seeds
- Plant decorative bushes
- Apply dormant spray to decorative bushes
- Prechill tulips and hyacinths for forcing indoors
- Water dwelling Christmas bushes
- Sow frost-tolerant perennials
- Prune winter-flowering shrubs throughout or simply after bloom
- Prune hardy deciduous and evergreen bushes
- Shield tender crops from frost
Zone 8
- Order seeds
- Sow seeds for hardy spring-blooming crops
- Plant winter- and spring-blooming bulbs
- Plant fruit bushes
- In the reduction of on feeding houseplants (don’t feed dormant houseplants)
- Water dwelling Christmas bushes
- Plant bare-root roses
- Prune hardy dormant deciduous bushes, shrubs, and vine
- Prune winter-blooming shrubs and vines after bloom
- Plant bare-root bushes, shrubs, and vines
- Apply dormant spray to bushes
- Sow seeds for cool-season or winter greens
- Plant or transplant cool-season or winter greens
- Shield tender crops from frost
Zone 9
- Order seeds
- Sow seeds for hardy spring-blooming crops
- Plant winter- and spring-flowering shrubs
- Purchase summer-blooming bulbs
- Repot cacti and succulents, if important, as soon as they’ve completed blooming
- Plant bare-root fruit bushes
- Plant citrus
- Apply dormant spray to fruit bushes
- In the reduction of on feeding houseplants (don’t feed dormant houseplants)
- Water dwelling Christmas tree
- Sow frost-tolerant perennials indoors
- Plant or transplant frost-tolerant perennial seedlings outdoor
- Plant bare-root roses
- Apply dormant sprays to roses
- Plant bare-root bushes, shrubs, and vines
- Prune fall- and winter-flowering shrubs and vines simply after bloom
- Plant bare-root perennial greens
- Plant or transplant cool-season or winter greens
- Sow seeds for cool-season or winter greens
- Shield tender crops from frost
Zone 10
- Order seeds
- Set out cool-season annuals
- Sow seeds for hardy spring-blooming bulbs
- Plant winter- and spring-blooming bulbs
- Repot cacti and succulents, if important, as soon as they’ve completed blooming
- Apply dormant sprays to fruit bushes
- Plant bare-root fruit bushes
- Plant citrus
- Shield citrus from frost harm
- In the reduction of on feeding houseplants (don’t feed dormant houseplants)
- Water dwelling Christmas bushes
- Plant winter-blooming perennials
- Plant bare-root roses
- Apply dormant spray to roses
- Plant bare-root shrubs and vines
- Apply dormant spray to bushes, shrubs, and vines
- Prune fall- and winter-flowering shrubs and vines simply after bloom
- Plant bare-root bushes
- Plant bare-root perennial greens
- Sow cool-season vegetable seeds
- Plant cool-season vegetable seedlings
Zone 11
- Buy dwelling Christmas tree (however don’t convey it indoors till per week -or less- earlier than Christmas)
- Plan subsequent 12 months’s backyard
- Clear and oil backyard instruments
- Drain and winterize backyard mechanical tools based on producer’s directions
- If you convey within the dwelling Christmas tree, preserve it away from heating registers
- Hold reward crops in a cool, mild place. Slit foil at backside of pot to maintain roots from drowning.
