Winter Gardening To Do lists

I started worrying about my garden the other day.  It has been unseasonable warm here and I started to worry that the perennials might have gotten he signal to sprout and that could give me large amounts of winter kill if the weather turns like I expect it to any day now.  Before I went out the garden (which is located about 9 miles from my apartment) I looked up the winter to do lists to see if there was anything I needed to accomplish while I was out there.

Of course this is January, so there was nothing on the list for me to do outside.  I thought rather than let that file work go to waste I would share with you the zone specific list of chores for those of us in the Midwest.  If you live farther south than Illinois or north of Wisconsin, these lists might be what you needed to do last month or what you cannot do for another month or so!

January & February TO Do Lists

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

February

Zone 4

• Order seeds
• Sow seeds indoors 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 5

• Order seeds
• 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 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