Month-by-month planting guides and seasonal gardening tasks for US gardeners.
Warm October week? Skip the pruning. Cuts now push new growth that won’t harden off before freeze. Only dead, damaged or diseased wood is safe to cut.
The northern tier’s first frost lands this month. Here’s the pick-first list, the five crops that get sweeter after it, and the order for everything else.
A frost advisory and a freeze warning aren’t the same threat. Here’s the exact threshold that kills basil, tomatoes, and kale — and why 36°F isn’t safe.
Zone 10 December gardening is peak cool-season planting time. Here’s exactly what to plant, prune, and harvest this month — with zone 10a vs 10b timing notes.
December Zone 8 gardening is busier than most guides admit. Get tables for what to plant, prune, and harvest — plus why frost makes your kale sweeter.
December is Zone 9’s second planting season. Here’s exactly what to sow, prune, and harvest — with the timing and reasoning behind each task.
Zone 7 December gardening is more active than you think. Plant spring bulbs before Christmas, harvest frost-sweetened kale, and prune the right plants at the right time.
Zone 6 has a narrow December window before the ground freezes. Here’s what to plant, prune, and harvest now — and why your December kale is sweeter than July.
Garlic goes in by Thanksgiving, frost sweetens your kale, and roses need cleanup not mounding. Your complete Zone 8 November garden checklist.
Your zone 5 December window is closing: plant bulbs before hard freeze, prune fruit trees while fire blight is dormant, and harvest kale at peak sweetness.
Zone 4 December: your last window to plant spring bulbs, the best time to prune oaks, and which frost-sweetened vegetables are at peak flavor right now.
Your zone 10 garden peaks in November. Here’s what to plant (plenty), what to prune, and which November harvests — persimmons to citrus — are ready right now.
Zone 9 November tasks most get wrong: garlic window closes Nov 30, citrus color isn’t ripe, and roses need January not now. Full guide inside.
December in Zone 3: force paperwhites, lift frost-sweetened parsnips, check garlic mulch depth, and place seed orders before short-season varieties sell out.
November in Zone 7: plant garlic before the ground freezes, do light rose cleanup only, and wait for frost to sweeten Brussels sprouts and kale.