Learn the monthly garden tasks for your gardening hardiness zone. Do you know what your hardiness zone? Once known, then find the required task.
Zone 1
- Finish planting bare-root trees, shrubs, roses
- Prune roses, then apply dormant spray
- Apply dormant spray to trees and shrubs before they leaf out
- Spade or till garden beds as soon as the soil is workable
- Divide summer- and fall-blooming perennials
- Feed evergreens, fruit trees, shrubs, and lawns
- Sow seeds of cool-season vegetables
- Sow seeds of hardy perennials outdoors after heavy freezes have passed
- Order summer-flowering bulbs (canna, calla, dahlia, gladiolus, elephant ear)
Zone 2
- Sow seeds of warm-season annuals indoors
- Water cymbidiums weekly until they bloom
- Feed cool-season lawns
- Sow seeds for cool-weather vegetables
- 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 until they bloom
- Plant seedlings of cool-weather vegetables
- 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 trees
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 trees
- Apply dormant spray to fruit trees before buds swell
- Spray apples, peaches, and pears that have been affected with canker problems
- Plant, feed, and aerate cool-season lawns and loosen thatch
- Plant bare-root perennial vegetables
- Plant seedlings of cool-weather vegetables
- Sow fast-growing warm-season vegetables
- 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 trees, shrubs and vines
- Apply dormant spray to trees, shrubs, and vines
- Plant summer-blooming shrubs and vines
- Plant frost-tolerant trees
- 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 trees
- Apply dormant spray to fruit trees before buds swell
- Spray apples, peaches, and pears that have been affected with canker problems
- Plant cool- and warm-season lawns
- Plant bare-root perennial vegetables
- Plant seedlings of cool-weather vegetables
- Sow fast-growing warm-season vegetables
- 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 trees, shrubs, and vines
- Apply dormant spray to trees, shrubs, and vines
- Plant summer-blooming shrubs and vines
- Plant frost-tolerant trees
- 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 trees
- Spray apples, peaches, and pears that have been affected with canker problems
- Plant permanent ground covers
- Plant and aerate lawns and loosen thatch
- Plant bare-root perennial vegetables
- Plant seedlings of cool-weather vegetables
- Sow fast-growing warm-season vegetables
- 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 trees, shrubs, and vines
- Apply dormant spray to trees, shrubs, and vines
- Plant tender shrubs and vines
- Plant summer-blooming shrubs and vines
- Plant frost-tolerant trees
- 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 permanent ground covers
- Plant or repair lawns
- Plant ornamental grasses
- Plant bare-root and container roses
- Plant or transplant warm-season annuals
- Plant fruit trees
- Spray dormant fruit trees
- Prune frost-sensitive fruit trees
- Feed houseplants that are growing or blooming
- Plant heat-loving perennials
- Uncover roses and apply dormant spray
- Plant ornamental and evergreen trees, shrubs, and vines
- Apply dormant spray to trees, shrubs, and vines
- Prune spring-flowering or tender shrubs and vines during or just after bloom
- Plant vegetable seedlings
Zone 8
- Set out annuals
- Plant summer-flowering bulbs
- Plant balled-and-burlapped and container fruit trees
- Prune frost-sensitive fruit trees
- Spray for peach leaf curl, peach leaf blight, and canker
- Feed houseplants that are growing or blooming
- Plant or repair lawns
- Plant ornamental grasses
- Plant fall-blooming perennials
- Prune tender deciduous shrubs and vines
- Prune spring-flowering shrubs and vines during or just after bloom
- Prune flowering fruit trees during or just after bloom
- Sow seeds for warm-season vegetables
- Plant seedlings of warm-season vegetables
Zone 9
- Sow seeds of warm-season annuals
- Plant fall-flowering bulbs
- Feed and water cacti or succulents that are blooming or actively growing
- Repot cacti and succulents, if essential, once they have finished blooming
- Prune deciduous and frost-sensitive fruit trees (when temperatures are above freezing)
- Spray for peach leaf curl, peach leaf blight, and canker
- Feed houseplants that are growing or blooming
- Repair or plant lawns
- Plant tender and heat-loving perennials
- Prune spring-flowering shrubs and vines during or just after bloom
- Sow seeds for warm-season vegetables
- Transplant warm-season vegetable seedlings
Zone 10
- Plant annuals for summer color
- Plant fall-blooming bulbs
- Feed and water cacti and succulents that are growing or blooming
- Spray for peach leaf curl, peach leaf blight, and canker
- Feed houseplants that are growing or blooming
- Prune spring-flowering shrubs and vines during or just after bloom
- Transplant warm-season vegetable seedlings
Zone 11
- Sow seeds of summer annuals outdoors or indoors
- Feed and water cacti and succulents as they start growth
- Set out peppers, tomatoes, eggplant
- Set out plants of summer annuals
- Feed and water lawns as growth accelerates
- Feed and groom house plants as growth recommences
- Plant gladiolus and dahlias
- Divide overgrown fall-blooming perennial clumps
- Clear away scrub growth for fire protection
- Cut back gift chrysanthemums and transplant to garden. Break into individual plants
