Zone 1
- Skinny dense-growing bushes to keep away from wind injury
- Apply mulch round vegetation after floor freezes
- Reduce chrysanthemums after bloom; mulch closely or dig and retailer in basement or storage
- Arrange burlap screens on windward sides of selection shrubs
- Prune deciduous bushes and roses after leaves have fallen
Zone 2
- Reduce on feeding houseplants (don’t feed dormant houseplants)
Zone 3
- Reduce on feeding houseplants (don’t feeddormant houseplants)
Zone 4
- Cowl perennial, vegetable, bulb, and strawberrybeds for winter
- Plant winter- and spring-flowering bulbs
- Divide and replant crowded fall-blooming bulbsafter leaves yellow
- Purchase spring-blooming bulbs
- Reduce on feeding houseplants (don’t feeddormant houseplants)
- Defend roses for winter
Zone 5
- Plant winter- and spring-flowering bulbs
- Divide and replant crowded fall-blooming bulbsafter leaves yellow
- Purchase winter- and spring-blooming bulbs
- Reduce on feeding houseplants (don’t feeddormant houseplants)
- Defend roses for winter
Zone 6
- Begin fall compost pile
- Plant winter- and spring-flowering bulbs
- Divide and replant crowded fall-blooming bulbsafter leaves yellow
- Purchase winter- and spring-blooming bulbs
- Reduce on feeding houseplants (don’t feeddormant houseplants)
- Defend roses for winter
Zone 7
- Plant decorative bushes
- Cowl perennial, vegetable, bulb, and strawberrybeds for winter
- Plant winter- and spring-blooming bulbs
- Pre-chill tulips and hyacinths for indoorforcing
- Reduce on feeding houseplants (don’t feeddormant houseplants)
- Rake garden to take away particles
- Defend roses for the winter
- Prune fall- and winter-flowering shrubs duringor simply after bloom
- Prune hardy deciduous and evergreen shrubsand vines
- Defend tender vegetation from frost
Zone 8
- Evenly cowl perennial, vegetable, bulb,and strawberry beds for winter
- Plant winter- and spring-blooming bulbs
- Reduce on feeding houseplants (don’t feeddormant houseplants)
- Plant or restore lawns
- Plant decorative grasses
- Plant winter-blooming perennials
- Plant bare-root roses
- Plant bare-root bushes, shrubs, and vines
- Prune fall- and winter-blooming shrubs andvines after bloom
- Plant cool-season or winter vegetable seedlings
- Sow seeds for cool-season or winter greens
Zone 9
- Plant for winter colour with annuals
- Plant winter- and spring-flowering shrubs
- Repot cacti and succulents, if important,as soon as they’ve completed blooming
- Plant bare-root fruit bushes
- Plant citrus
- Reduce on feeding houseplants (don’t feeddormant houseplants)
- Restore or plant lawns
- Rake lawns to take away particles
- Sow frost-tolerant perennials indoors
- Plant winter-blooming perennials
- Plant bare-root roses
- Plant bare-root bushes, shrubs, and vines
- Prune deciduous bushes
- Prune fall- and winter-flowering shrubs andvines simply after bloom
- Plant seedlings of cool-season or winter greens
- Sow seeds for cool-season or winter greens
- Defend tender vegetation from frost
Zone 10
- Set out winter-blooming annuals
- Plant winter- and spring-blooming bulbs
- Repot cacti and succulents, if important,as soon as they’ve completed blooming
- Plant bare-root fruit bushes
- Plant citrus
- Reduce on feeding houseplants (don’t feeddormant houseplants)
- Plant winter-blooming perennials
- Plant bare-root roses
- Plant bare-root shrubs and vines
- Prune fall- and winter-flowering shrubs andvines simply after bloom
- Plant bare-root bushes
- Sow cool-season or winter vegetable seeds
Zone 11
- Buy dwelling Christmas tree (however don’tbring it indoors till every week -or less- earlier than Christmas)
- Plan subsequent yr’s backyard
- Clear and oil backyard instruments
- Drain and winterize backyard mechanical equipmentaccording to producer’s directions
- While you carry within the dwelling Christmas tree,maintain it away from heating registers
- Hold reward vegetation in a cool, mild place. Slitfoil at backside of pot to maintain roots from drowning.
