THE MONTHLY GARDEN CHORES are one of the most popular features on A Way to Garden (and they are all archived at this link). Though the how-to I offer in those columns will apply most anywhere–pruning a rose or sowing a tomato seed is similar, wherever the rose or tomato may grow–the when is not the same, of course.
To help you adjust the timing of my tips: My garden is in Zone 5B, in the Hudson Valley (NY)-Berkshires (MA) area, where frost can persist well into May and typically arrives again sometime in October. For more zone-specific help, I’ve collected links, below, to some detailed garden calendars from elsewhere around the country that I was able to track down.
Please note: There was not a good calendar for every state and microclimate within a state to be found. Within the list below, I expect you’ll find some directional choices for where you garden. If you know of another calendar I should include, let me know.
If you’re trying to figure out when to sow vegetable-garden, herb and annual flower seed, try my seed-sowing calculator, customizable to your frost-free dates.
monthly garden-chore calendars by region
far west
Oregon
Washington
Cailfornia–University of California Extension:
California–“Los Angeles Times”
northeast
midwest
Illinois
Missouri
Minnesota
Indiana
south and mid-atlantic
Florida
Georgia
Maryland
Mississippi
North Carolina–N.C. State University Extension:
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Tennessee
Virginia
West Virginia
southwest and intermountain regions
New Mexico
Colorado
Texas–via Texas A&M University Extension:
Each month for many years, the “Aggie Horticulture Newsletter” from TAMU Extension carried Bill Welch’s calendar. Samples from the archives:
Utah
