Go through the Gardening Checklist for the New Year and maintain the good health of your plants throughout twelve months!
Start new year with a clear plan using the help of our Gardening Checklist for New Year! It will help you to take care of your plants while giving you some amazing ideas too!
Gardening Checklist for New Year
1. January
- Repair fences, netting, and pipes
- Check tools needed for the year in advance
- Clean up the shed, cold frames, greenhouses
- Make orders for chrysanthemums and dahlias
- Begin project work that needs huge modifications, like modifying the garden layout and installing fences.
- Start mulching, weeding, and straw path layering
- Prune perennials
2. February
- Keep pruning perennials
- Set up metal stakes with netting
- Buy summer bulbs like lilies and gladioli
- Use birch stakes for making sweet pea wigwams
- Sow annuals for early blooming
- Begin to prune roses
- Plan plant positioning and successions
- According to the weather in your area, plant perennials and shrubs
- Weed
- Mulch
- Layer path with straws
3. March
- Plant dahlia cuttings
- Transplant tuberose
- Plant hardy annuals and perennials
- Continue Weeding
- Repot seedlings
- Acclimatize young plants by moving them out
- Prune roses
- Mulching and straw path layering
4. April
- Plant sweet pea seedlings
- Take cuttings of salvias, dahlias, plectranthus
- Paint the shades on the greenhouses
- Continue weeding
- Water plants in the greenhouse and containers
- Acclimatize plants in cold frames
5. May
- Pot Gladiolus murielaea bulbs
- By the end of the month, replant dahlias
- Plant cuttings
- Empty spring pot display
- Clear the ground for the next crop by removing all tulip bulbs
- Keep an eye on pests in the greenhouse
- Water plants in pots and greenhouse
6. June
- Mulch greenhouse beds
- Plant greenhouse beds with zinnias
- Take off crops as they go over
- Pinch flowers
- Plant biennials
- Water pots and greenhouses
- Do Deadheading
7. July
- Plant chrysanthemums
- Clear out spent annuals and interchange with late-season crops
- Establish pots for late summer
- Do staking if needed
- If there is an area in the garden, begin to set up biennials
- Prune early perennials
- Accumulate and store pretty seed heads for winter decoration
8. August
- Place an order for annual seeds
- By the end of the month, order sweet pea seeds and spring bulbs
- Stop and thin out chrysanthemum
- As space is available, pot up / plant out biennials
- Collect seeds
- Take out spent annuals like sweet peas
- Tie-in or stake plants as they begin to grow
- Tidy up the garden
9. September
- Plant hardy annual seeds for next year’s flowering
- Decide where to plant bulbs
- Plant biennials
- Remove or cut back spent crops
- Keep weeding and deadheading
- Take cuttings
- Place an order for new perennials and plant them
10. October
- Place an order for bare-root shrubs
- Begin to plant spring bulbs
- Pre-germinate and plant Ranunculus and Anemone coronaria
- Force bulbs by planting them in crates
- Clean beds of spent plants
- Grow remaining perennials and biennials
- Place large pots for spring displays
- Keep on weeding, straw path layering, and mulching
- Clean greenhouse zinnias
- Save tender perennials from frost by moving them indoors
- Plant hardy annuals before the temperature drops to freezing cold
11. November
- Plant sweet peas
- Keep planting spring bulbs along with tulips
- Prune roses
- Move Dahlias to dry out in the greenhouse
- Cut back perennials
- Remove annuals
- Check the garden for making changes for the next year
- Begin to remove unwanted old plants and replace them with new cultivars
12. December
- If not yet completed, finish tulip planting
- Grow bare-root shrubs
- If climate suits, transplant perennials
- For early blooming, plant seedlings in the greenhouse
- Clean greenhouses and shed
