Provided is a list of tasks you need to perform in your garden during January. Please understand your gardening zone which is identified in the menu above. Look for Hardiness Zones.
Zone 1
- Order seed and nursery catalogs
- Check dahlia and canna roots for plumpness, freedom from mold
- Check house plants for mites, mealybugs, and scale
- Cut back on feeding house plants
- Protect bases of fruit tree trunks against rodent damage with wire mesh
- Plant living Christmas trees if ground is workable
- Clean and oil garden tools
- Plan flower and vegetable beds
Zone 2
- Cut back on feeding houseplants (do not feed dormant houseplants)
- Water cymbidiums weekly until they bloom
Zone 3
- Order seeds
- Cut back on feeding houseplants (do not feed dormant houseplants)
- Water cymbidiums weekly until they bloom
Zone 4
- Order seeds
- Sow seeds indoors for hardy spring-blooming plants
- Cut back on feeding houseplants (do not feed dormant houseplants)
Zone 5
- Order seeds
- Sow seeds for hardy spring-blooming plants
- Cut back on feeding houseplants (do not feed dormant houseplants)
- Sow frost-tolerant perennials indoors
Zone 6
- Order seeds
- Sow seeds of warm-season annuals
- Sow seeds for hardy spring-blooming plants
- Cut back on feeding houseplants (do not feed dormant houseplants)
- Sow seeds for cool-weather vegetables
- Sow frost-tolerant perennials indoors
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
Zone 8
- Order seeds
- Sow seeds of warm-season annuals indoors
- Sow seeds for hardy spring-blooming annuals
- Plant fruit trees
- Apply dormant spray to fruit trees
- Cut back on feeding houseplants (do not feed dormant houseplants)
- Move living Christmas trees outdoors
- Plant or transplant frost-tolerant perennials
- Plant bare-root roses
- Apply dormant spray to bare-root roses
- Plant bare-root trees, shrubs, and vines
- Prune winter-blooming shrubs and vines just after bloom
- Apply dormant spray to trees, shrubs, and vines
- Plant bare-root perennial vegetables
- Sow seeds for cool-season vegetables
- Protect tender plants from frost
Zone 9
- Order seeds
- Sow seeds for hardy spring-blooming annuals
- Sow seeds of warm-season annuals indoors
- Plant summer-flowering bulbs
- Repot cacti and succulents, if essential, once they have finished blooming
- Plant bare-root fruit trees
- Apply dormant spray to fruit trees
- Plant citrus
- Move living Christmas tree outdoors
- Sow frost-tolerant perennial seeds indoors
- Plant or transplant frost-tolerant perennial seedlings outdoors
- Plant bare-root roses
- Apply dormant spray to roses
- Plant bare-root trees, shrubs, and vines
- Apply dormant spray to trees, shrubs, and vines
- Prune winter-flowering shrubs and vines just after bloom
- Plant bare-root perennial vegetables
- Plant seedlings of cool-season and winter vegetables
- Sow seeds for cool-season and winter vegetables
- Protect tender plants from frost
Zone 10
- Order seeds
- Set out cool-season annuals
- Sow seeds for hardy spring-blooming annuals
- Plant winter, spring, and summer-blooming lbs
- Repot cacti and succulents, if essential, once they have finished blooming
- Plant bare-root fruit trees
- Prune flowering fruit trees while in bloom
- Spray for peach leaf curl, peach leaf blight, and canker
- Plant citrus
- Protect citrus from frost damage
- Cut back on feeding houseplants (do not feed dormant houseplants)
- Move living Christmas trees outdoors
- Plant bare-root roses
- Apply dormant spray to roses
- Plant bare-root shrubs and vines
- Apply dormant sprays to trees, shrubs and vines
- Prune evergreen shrubs
- Prune winter-flowering shrubs and vines
- Plant bare-root trees
- Sow cool-season vegetable seeds
- Plant or transplant cool-season vegetable seedlings
- Sow warm-season vegetable seeds
Zone 11
- Order seeds and plants from catalogues.
- Sow seeds of hardy annuals outdoors (larkspur, bachelor’s button, poppy)
- Set out plants of early-spring blooming perennials (primrose, calendula, viola, pansy)
- Plant bare-root trees, shrubs, vegetables
- Check house plants for mites, mealybugs
- Prune fruit trees if you have not previously done so
- Apply dormant spray to fruit trees, roses
