March Gardening To Do List

Zone 1

• Order indoor seed starting kits and seeds
• Cut back on feeding houseplants (do not feed dormant houseplants)
• Water indoor cymbidium orchids weekly until they bloom
• Sow seeds indoors for tender perennials and annuals
• Clean, oil and sharpen tools

• Order seeds and seed starting systems
• Sow seeds indoors or cold frame
• Remove mulch from early bulbs
• Cut back on feeding houseplants (do not feed dormant houseplants)
• Sow seeds for cool-weather vegetables
• Sow frost-tolerant perennials indoors
• Clean, oil and sharpen tools
• Order or construct a cold frame for starting vegetables outdoors

Zone 3

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

Zone 4

• Plant bare root trees
• Cut back on feeding houseplants (do not feed dormant houseplants)
• Sow seeds for cool-weather vegetables
• Sow frost-tolerant perennials indoors

Zone 5

• Plant dormant, hardy container and balled and burlapped plants
• Sow seeds of warm-season annuals indoors
• Remove winter mulch, lightly cultivate soil if thawed
• Prune out winter damage
• Apply dormant spray to fruit trees
• Plant or transplant frost-tolerant perennials
• Sow seeds for tender perennials indoors
• Plant bare-root roses
• Plant bare-root trees, shrubs, and vines
• Prune winter-blooming shrubs and vines just after bloom
• Plant bare-root perennial vegetables (asparagus, rhubarb etc.)
• Plant seedlings of cool-season vegetables
• Sow seeds for cool- and warm-season vegetables
• Protect tender plants from frost

Zone 6

• Sow seeds of warm-season annuals indoors
• Prune out winter damage
• Feed cool-season lawns
• Remove winter mulch, lightly cultivate soil if thawed
• 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 remain above freezing)

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

• 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
• Feed houseplants that are growing or blooming
• Plant heat-loving perennials
• Plant ornamental and evergreen trees, shrubs, and vines
• Prune spring-flowering or tender shrubs and vines during or just after bloom
• Plant warm-seasoned vegetable seedlings

Zone 9

• Set out warm season annuals
• Plant summer-flowering bulbs
• Plant container fruit trees
• Prune fruit trees after bloom and fruit setting
• Spray for peach leaf curl, peach leaf blight, and canker
• Repair or plant lawns with warm season grasses (Bermuda, St. Augustine etc.)
• 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 10

• Get ahead of the bugs by hand-picking or spraying with organic preparations
• Fertilize oleander, Bauhinia, hibiscus and citrus while in bloom with a low-nitrogen plant food
• Mulch with at least two inches of decomposed hardwood material such as pine bark, pine needles, or cypress bark to conserve moisture in flower and vegetable beds
• Plant avocados, papaya, breadfruit and mango, tababuia and tibuchina trees
• Plant seed, seedlings, or rooted starts of herbs and vegetables such as peppers, okra, cantaloupe, watermelons, peanuts, sweet potatoes, luffa, chayote, lemon grass and mint
• In drought-prone areas, install simple drip-irrigation systems to take care of summer watering needs

Zone 11

• Get ahead of the bugs by hand-picking or spraying with organic preparations
• Fertilize oleander, Bauhinia, hibiscus and citrus while in bloom with a low-nitrogen plant food
• Mulch with at least two inches of decomposed hardwood material such as pine bark, pine needles, or cypress bark to conserve moisture in flower and vegetable beds
• Plant avocados, papaya, breadfruit and mango, tababuia and tibuchina trees
• Plant seed, seedlings, or rooted starts of herbs and vegetables such as peppers, okra, cantaloupe, watermelons, peanuts, sweet potatoes, luffa, chayote, lemon grass and mint
• In drought-prone areas, install simple drip-irrigation systems to take care of summer watering needs

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