January Gardening To Do List

Zone 1

• Order seed and nursery catalogues
• Check dahlia and canna roots for plumpness, freedom from mold
• Check house plants for mites, mealybugs, and scale
• Cut back on feeding house plants
• Protect bases of fruit tree trunks against rodent damage with wire mesh
• Plant living Christmas trees if ground is workable
• Clean and oil garden tools
• Plan flower and vegetable beds

Zone 2

• Cut back on feeding houseplants (do not feed dormant houseplants)
• Water cymbidiums weekly until they bloom

Zone 3

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

Zone 4

• Order seeds
• Sow seeds indoors for hardy spring-blooming plants
• Cut back on feeding houseplants (do not feed dormant houseplants)

Zone 5

• Order seeds
• Sow seeds for hardy spring-blooming plants
• Cut back on feeding houseplants (do not feed dormant houseplants)
• 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

• 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 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
• Plant balled-and-burlapped, container, and bare-root trees, shrubs, and vines
• Plant summer-blooming shrubs and vines
• Plant frost-tolerant trees
• Plant conifers and broad-leaf evergreens

Zone 8

• Order seeds
• Sow seeds of warm-season annuals indoors
• Sow seeds for hardy spring-blooming annuals
• Plant fruit trees
• Apply dormant spray to fruit trees
• Cut back on feeding houseplants (do not feed dormant houseplants)
• Move living Christmas trees outdoors
• Plant or transplant frost-tolerant perennials
• Plant bare-root roses
• Apply dormant spray to bare-root roses
• Plant bare-root trees, shrubs, and vines
• Prune winter-blooming shrubs and vines just after bloom
• Apply dormant spray to trees, shrubs, and vines
• Plant bare-root perennial vegetables
• Sow seeds for cool-season vegetables
• Protect tender plants from frost

Zone 9

• Order seeds
• 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
• Plant citrus
• Move living Christmas tree outdoors
• Sow frost-tolerant perennial seeds indoors
• Plant or transplant frost-tolerant perennial seedlings outdoors
• Plant bare-root roses
• Apply dormant spray to roses
• Plant bare-root trees, shrubs, and vines
• Apply dormant spray to trees, shrubs, and vines
• Prune winter-flowering shrubs and vines just after bloom
• Plant bare-root perennial vegetables
• Plant seedlings of cool-season and winter vegetables
• Sow seeds for cool-season and winter vegetables
• Protect tender plants from frost

Zone 10

• Order seeds
• Set out cool-season annuals
• Sow seeds for hardy spring-blooming annuals
• Plant winter-, spring-, and summer-blooming 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
• Cut back on feeding houseplants (do not feed dormant houseplants)
• Move living Christmas trees outdoors
• Plant bare-root roses
• Apply dormant spray to roses
• Plant bare-root shrubs and vines
• Apply dormant sprays to trees, shrubs and vines
• Prune evergreen shrubs
• Prune winter-flowering shrubs and vines
• Plant bare-root trees
• Sow cool-season vegetable seeds
• Plant or transplant cool-season vegetable seedlings
• Sow warm-season vegetable seeds

Zone 11

• .Order seeds and plants from catalogues.
• Sow seeds of hardy annuals outdoors (larkspur, bachelor's button, poppy)
• Set out plants of early-spring blooming perennials (primrose, calendula, viola, pansy)
• Plant bare-root trees, shrubs, vegetables
• Check house plants for mites, mealybugs
• Prune fruit trees if you have not previously done so
• Apply dormant spray to fruit trees, roses

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