February Gardening To Do List

Zone 1

• Order fruit and vegetable seeds, roses, bare-root trees and shrubs
• Check potted or container-planted bulbs for signs of growth
• Bring in pots of crocus and bulbous iris if leaves have formed
• Cut branches of pussy willow, flowering quince, forsythia to force indoors if buds are beginning to swell
• Freshen house plants with sprays or shower bath
• Sow seeds of cool-weather vegetables indoors
• Sow seeds of hardy perennials indoors

Zone 2

• Cut back on feeding houseplants (do not feed dormant houseplants)
• Water cymbidiums weekly until they bloom
• Sow seeds indoors for tender perennials

Zone 3

• Order seeds
• Cut back on feeding houseplants (do not feed dormant houseplants)
• Water cymbidiums weekly until they bloom
• Sow seeds for tender perennials

Zone 4

• Order seeds
• Sow seeds indoors for hardy spring-blooming plants
• Cut back on feeding houseplants (do not feed dormant houseplants)
• Sow seeds for cool-weather vegetables
• Sow frost-tolerant perennials indoors

Zone 5

• Order seeds
• Sow seeds for hardy spring-blooming plants
• Cut back on feeding houseplants (do not feed dormant houseplants)
• Sow seeds for cool-weather vegetables
• Sow frost-tolerant perennials indoors

Zone 6

• Order seeds
• Sow seeds of warm-season annuals
• Sow seeds for hardy spring-blooming plants
• Cut back on feeding houseplants (do not feed dormant houseplants)
• Sow seeds for cool-weather vegetables
• Sow frost-tolerant perennials indoors

Zone 7

• Order seeds this week, because it's time to begin planting, both outdoors and in.
• Sow seeds of warm-season annuals indoors
• Plant ornamental trees
• Prune flowering fruit trees while in bloom
• Prune winter-flowering shrubs and vines after bloom
• Sow seeds of warm-season vegetables indoors
• Sow seeds for hardy spring-blooming annuals
• Plant or transplant cool-season vegetable seedlings

Zone 8

• Order seeds
• Sow seeds of warm-season annuals indoors
• Set out cool-season annuals
• Plant fruit trees
• Apply dormant spray to fruit trees
• Spray for peach leaf curl, peach leaf blight, and canker
• Cut back on feeding houseplants (do not feed dormant houseplants)
• Plant or repair warm-season lawns
• Plant ornamental grasses
• Plant or transplant frost-tolerant perennials
• Sow seeds for tender perennials indoors
• Plant bare-root roses
• Apply dormant spray to roses
• Plant bare-root trees, shrubs, and vines
• Prune winter-blooming shrubs and vines just after bloom
• Apply dormant spray to shrubs and vines
• Plant bare-root perennial vegetables
• Plant seedlings of cool-season vegetables
• Sow seeds for cool- and warm-season vegetables
• Protect tender plants from frost

Zone 9

• Sow seeds for hardy spring-blooming annuals
• Sow seeds of warm-season annuals indoors
• Plant summer-flowering bulbs
• Repot cacti and succulents, if essential, once they have finished blooming
• Plant bare-root fruit trees
• Apply dormant spray to fruit trees
• Spray for peach leaf curl, peach leaf blight, and canker
• Plant citrus
• Repair or plant lawns
• Plant or transplant frost-tolerant perennials outdoors
• Sow seeds for tender perennials indoors
• Plant bare-root roses
• Plant bare-root trees, shrubs, and vines
• Prune deciduous trees
• Prune winter-flowering shrubs and vines just after bloom
• Plant bare-root perennial vegetalbes
• Plant seedlings of cool-season or winter vegetables
• Sow seeds for cool-season or winter vegetables
• Sow seeds for warm-season vegetables indoors

Zone 10

• Order seeds
• Sow seeds for warm-season annuals
• Set out seedlings of warm-season annuals
• Set out summer-flowering bulbs
• Repot cacti and succulents, if essential, once they have finished blooming
• Plant bare-root fruit trees
• Prune flowering fruit trees while in bloom
• Spray for peach leaf curl, peach leaf blight, and canker
• Plant citrus
• Protect citrus from frost damage
• Feed houseplants that are growing or blooming
• Plant bare-root roses
• Plant bare-root shrubs and vines
• Prune evergreen shrubs
• Prune winter-flowering shrubs and vines after bloom
• Plant bare-root trees
• Plant or transplant cool-season vegetable seedlings
• Sow warm-season vegetable seeds
• Transplant warm-season vegetable seedlings

Zone 11

• Sow seed of summer annuals indoors
• Sow seeds of hardy vegetables indoors
• Improve soil by spading in humus
• Plant bare-root trees, shrubs, vines, roses
• Be ready to shelter tender plants against frost
• Finish dormant spraying

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