Your Month-by-Month Garden Maintenance Guide
Do you strive for a beautiful, thriving garden all year long?
Our Garden Maintenance Schedule helps you stay on track with the key garden tasks to tackle each month—from spring clean-up to fall planting. Use this guide alongside our linked resources to dig deeper into each topic!
March
- Begin spring clean-up to clear away winter debris and prep your beds
- Full March Guide
April
- Continue spring clean-up
- Divide perennials that are overcrowded
- Start applying weed preventers and animal repellents
- Full April Guide
May
- Finish clean-up in early May
- Divide perennials
- Water as needed
- Mulch garden beds
- Start weeding regularly
- Late May: plant annuals, perennials, direct sow summer vegetables, plant summer bulbs, and begin fertilizing
- Full May Guide
June
- Continue planting (annuals, perennials, direct sow summer vegetables, summer bulbs)
- Divide perennials (wrap up by mid-June)
- Water, mulch, and weed as needed
- Fertilize and begin deadheading spent blooms
- Apply sawfly spray if needed
- Full June Guide
July
- Plant perennials and continue watering, weeding, and fertilizing
- Deadhead flowers to encourage new blooms
- Late July: direct sow fall vegetables, divide bearded iris
- Stake tall or floppy plants for support
- Full July Guide
August
- Direct sow fall vegetables (finish by mid-August)
- Plant perennials
- Continue watering, weeding, and deadheading
- Early August: finish dividing bearded iris
- Late August: divide peonies
- Planting annuals is still possible—but not ideal during peak heat
- Full August Guide
September
- Divide peonies
- Weed and deadhead as needed
- Water during dry spells
- Late September: start planting spring bulbs
October
- Water as needed
- Plant spring bulbs
- Begin fall clean-up
- Apply mulch (optional—best after the ground freezes)
November
- Continue watering (until the ground freezes)
- Finish planting spring bulbs by mid-November
- Wrap up fall clean-up and prepare for winter rest
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