Seasonal Gardening

October garden jobs guide for US gardeners: tulip planting by zone, lifting dahlias, bare-root trees, lawn renovation and winter prep. 2,500 words.

What to plant in November — tulips, garlic, amaryllis for forcing, bare-root roses and winter sowing by USDA zone, with a step-by-step amaryllis guide.

December is the garden’s planning month — review the year, order seed catalogues before the best varieties sell out, protect tender plants, and set up next year’s garden for success. Complete zone-by-zone checklist for US gardeners.

The complete July garden checklist for US gardeners: deadheading, tomato side-shoot removal, heatwave management, what to sow in July, and why July is the month to order your spring bulbs before specialist stocks sell out.

A complete guide to what to plant in February for US gardeners, with zone-by-zone advice, bare-root rose planting, indoor seed starting, and dahlia tuber preparation.

May is the pivotal month in the US gardening calendar. For most of the country, the last frost has passed, the soil is warming fast, and the list of plants you can safely put outside now includes the tender crops and summer annuals that have been waiting on windowsills since late winter. This is the month gardeners live for. For …

September is the best planting month for US gardeners. Plant daffodils, alliums, garlic, kale and cool-season crops now. Zone-by-zone guide with planting depths, variety picks, and a full September checklist.

January is the planning and sowing month for US gardeners. Discover what to plant in January by USDA zone, which seeds to start indoors now, how to read a seed catalogue, and why chitting potatoes gives you a head start on the growing season.

August sits at a crossroads in the American garden. The vegetable beds are producing at full tilt — tomatoes, zucchini, beans, and cucumbers coming faster than you can eat them — while the first whisper of autumn is already detectable in the shortening evenings. The smart gardener knows that August is simultaneously the peak of summer harvest and the beginning …

June is the transition from planting to managing — but there is still plenty to sow. Zone-by-zone guide to succession sowing, biennial flowers, summer bulbs, dahlia pinching, and every garden task that June demands.

April is the gardener’s accelerator month. Use this zone-by-zone guide to know exactly what to plant in April — from hardening off seedlings and planting summer bulbs to direct sowing carrots and getting tomatoes ready to go out.

March is the hinge month of the gardening year. Winter has not fully let go, but the season’s first real push has already begun — and whether that means indoor seed-starting under grow lights or direct sowing cool-season crops in a raised bed depends entirely on where you live. From Zone 3 to Zone 10, March asks something different of …

A complete month-by-month planting guide for US gardeners covering every season, USDA zone tips, and exactly what to sow, plant, and harvest from January through December.