Do you strive to have the perfect garden year round? Our garden maintenance schedule can help you do just that! Use our calendar and gardening resources to keep you on track with important garden maintenance tasks that you should be doing each month.
March
April
- Begin applying weed preventers and animal repellents
May
- Early May, finish spring clean-up
- Water, as needed
- Mulch
- Begin weeding
- Late May, plant annuals & perennials, direct sow summer veg., plant summer bulbs, begin fertilizing
June
- Direct sow summer veg.
- Plant annuals
- Plant perennials
- Divide perennials (ideally finish by mid-June)
- Water, as needed
- Mulch
- Plant summer bulbs (finish by mid-June)
- Weeding
- Fertilizing
- Begin deadheading
- Apply sawfly spray, as needed
July
- Plant perennials
- Water, as needed
- Weeding
- Fertilizing
- Deadheading
- Late July, direct sow fall vegs, divide bearded iris
- Can plant annuals and divide perennials, but not ideal
- Staking plants, as needed
August
- Direct sow fall veg (finish by mid-August)
- Plant perennials
- Water, as needed
- Weeding
- Fertilizing
- Deadheading
- Early August, finish dividing bearded iris
- Late August, divide peonies
- Can plant annuals and divide perennials, but not ideal
September
- Divide peonies
- Water, as needed
- Late September, start planting spring bulbs
- Weeding
- Deadheading
October
- Water, as needed
- Mulch (not ideal)
November
- Water, as needed
- Mulch (not ideal)
- Finish planting spring bulbs by mid-November
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