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Garden Calendar

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January

  • Get those plant and seed catalogs out and start planning next season's garden [liCut the branches off of your Christmas tree to use as mulch in the garden
  • Scout tree branches and limbs for signs of egg masses

More tips for January

February

  • Keep tabs on your houseplants. Make sure they are getting enough humidity. Check for pests.
  • Cut branches of flowering shrubs like forsythia, pussy willow, quince and magnolia to bring inside for forcing


  • Inspect hemlocks for overwintering woolly adelgid

More tips for February

March

  • Prune non-stone fruit trees, grapes and raspberries. Start all-purpose spray regimen
  • Start seeds of slow growing and cool season vegetables like: onions, leeks, parsley, celery, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, eggplant and peppers
  • Begin removing mulch from around rose bushes
  • Plant your peas on St. Patrick's Day. (If there?s no snow stopping you.)
  • Begin horticultural oil (dormant oil) applications where needed to control pests

More tips for March

April

  • Harden off and move cool season crops to the garden
  • Plant asparagus roots and onion sets
  • Apply pre-emergent crabgrass killer after forsythia bloom
  • Remove mulch from on top of flowers
  • Re-mulch beds as necessary
  • Remove tent caterpillars and webs
  • Begin monitoring for signs of disease

More tips for April

May

  • Once your last frost data has passed, warm season crops can be planted
  • Start seeds for melon and squash. Hold until the end of may, to avert squash bugs and borers.


  • Begin pinching annuals and perennials to make the plants fill in and produce more blooms
  • Prune evergreens when the new growth starts to turn a darker shade of green
  • Prune stone fruits (cherry, almond, peach, nectarine, plum) at bloom time
  • Stake tall perennials
  • Remove and dispose of azalea leaf gals before they turn white and release their spores

More tips for May

June

  • Prune flowering shrubs after the flowers begin to fade
  • Continue pinching flowers until July 4th
  • Deadhead and remove fading leaves from spring bloomers
  • Divide and transplant perennials
  • Take softwood cuttings from trees and shrubs to propagate new plants
  • Remove fallen fruits from below trees to prevent insect egg laying
  • Place red sticky sphere traps in apple trees to control apple maggot flies
  • Check undersides of rose leaves for rose slugs
  • Watch for scale infestations on Euonymus and pachysandra
  • Move houseplants outside

More tips for June

July

  • Stop pinching back flowers
  • Divide oriental poppies and bearded iris
  • Keep deadheading
  • Remove leaves infested by miners, to control spread
  • Succession plant beans, lettuce, radishes and corn
  • Water newly planted trees and plants as necessary
  • Start seeds of fall crops like: broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower

More tips for July

August

  • Seed a fall crop of peas
  • Gather herbs and flowers for drying
  • Keep deadheading and harvesting
  • Begin taking cuttings for new plants
  • Sit and enjoy your garden in all its summer glory

More tips for August

September


More tips for September

October

  • Plant garlic and shallots
  • Have your soil tested and amend as needed
  • Harvest Brussels sprouts after a hard frost
  • Clean up garden debris. Remove all vegetable plants and fallen fruit.
  • Remove dead annuals from the garden, after a frost.
  • Cut back perennial foliage to discourage overwintering pests. Leave flowers with seeds for the birds.
  • Start raking and composting leaves

More tips for October

November

  • Finish amending the soil.
  • Cover exposed garden soil with a layer of shredded leaves, for the winter
  • Wrap screening around fruit tree trunks often damaged by mice and voles
  • Keep watering until the ground temperature reaches 40 degrees F.
  • Buy bulbs for winter forcing
  • Mulch rose bushes

More tips for November

December

  • If you can get to them, harvest any remaining root crops
  • Start rotating your houseplants so they get equal light on all sides
  • Check your stored tender bulbs for rot or dryness
  • Start paperwhites and amaryllis for winter blooms

More tips for December
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