Offered is an inventory of duties you should carry out in your backyard throughout December. Please perceive your gardening zone which is recognized within the menu above. Search for Hardiness Zones.
Zone 1
- Proceed pruning deciduous timber and roses
- In coldest areas, defend roses with earth cones or wire baskets stuffed with insulating materials
- Preserve reward home vegetation as cool and brilliant as attainable
- To stop breakage, brush snow from evergreen limbs
- Preserve dwelling Christmas timber away from scorching air registers
- Order seed and nursery catalogues
Zone 2
- In the reduction of on feeding houseplants (don’t feed dormant houseplants)
- Water cymbidiums weekly till they bloom
- Water dwelling Christmas timber (ice cubes work nicely)
- Prechill tulips and hyacinths for forcing indoors
Zone 3
- In the reduction of on feeding houseplants (don’t feed dormant houseplants)
- Water cymbidiums weekly till they bloom
- Water dwelling Christmas timber (ice cubes work nicely)
- Prechill tulips and hyacinths for forcing indoors
Zone 4
- In the reduction of on feeding houseplants (don’t feed dormant houseplants)
- Water dwelling Christmas timber (ice cubes work nicely)
- Prechill tulips and hyacinths for forcing indoors
Zone 5
- In the reduction of on feeding houseplants (don’t feed dormant houseplants)
- Water dwelling Christmas timber (ice cubes work nicely)
- Prechill tulips and hyacinths for forcing indoors
Zone 6
- In the reduction of on feeding houseplants (don’t feed dormant houseplants)
- Water dwelling Christmas timber (ice cubes work nicely)
- Prechill tulips and hyacinths for forcing indoors
Zone 7
- Order seeds
- Plant decorative timber
- Apply dormant spray to decorative timber
- Prechill tulips and hyacinths for forcing indoors
- Water dwelling Christmas timber
- Sow frost-tolerant perennials
- Prune winter-flowering shrubs throughout or simply after bloom
- Prune hardy deciduous and evergreen timber
- Defend tender vegetation from frost
Zone 8
- Order seeds
- Sow seeds for hardy spring-blooming vegetation
- Plant winter- and spring-blooming bulbs
- Plant fruit timber
- In the reduction of on feeding houseplants (don’t feed dormant houseplants)
- Water dwelling Christmas timber
- Plant bare-root roses
- Prune hardy dormant deciduous timber, shrubs, and vine
- Prune winter-blooming shrubs and vines after bloom
- Plant bare-root timber, shrubs, and vines
- Apply dormant spray to timber
- Sow seeds for cool-season or winter greens
- Plant or transplant cool-season or winter greens
- Defend tender vegetation from frost
Zone 9
- Order seeds
- Sow seeds for hardy spring-blooming vegetation
- Plant winter- and spring-flowering shrubs
- Purchase summer-blooming bulbs
- Repot cacti and succulents, if important, as soon as they’ve completed blooming
- Plant bare-root fruit timber
- Plant citrus
- Apply dormant spray to fruit timber
- In the reduction of on feeding houseplants (don’t feed dormant houseplants)
- Water dwelling Christmas tree
- Sow frost-tolerant perennials indoors
- Plant or transplant frost-tolerant perennial seedlings outdoor
- Plant bare-root roses
- Apply dormant sprays to roses
- Plant bare-root timber, shrubs, and vines
- Prune fall- and winter-flowering shrubs and vines simply after bloom
- Plant bare-root perennial greens
- Plant or transplant cool-season or winter greens
- Sow seeds for cool-season or winter greens
- Defend tender vegetation from frost
Zone 10
- Order seeds
- Set out cool-season annuals
- Sow seeds for hardy spring-blooming bulbs
- Plant winter- and spring-blooming bulbs
- Repot cacti and succulents, if important, as soon as they’ve completed blooming
- Apply dormant sprays to fruit timber
- Plant bare-root fruit timber
- Plant citrus
- Defend citrus from frost harm
- In the reduction of on feeding houseplants (don’t feed dormant houseplants)
- Water dwelling Christmas timber
- Plant winter-blooming perennials
- Plant bare-root roses
- Apply dormant spray to roses
- Plant bare-root shrubs and vines
- Apply dormant spray to timber, shrubs, and vines
- Prune fall- and winter-flowering shrubs and vines simply after bloom
- Plant bare-root timber
- Plant bare-root perennial greens
- Sow cool-season vegetable seeds
- Plant cool-season vegetable seedlings
Zone 11
- Buy dwelling Christmas tree (however don’t convey it indoors till per week -or less- earlier than Christmas)
- Plan subsequent 12 months’s backyard
- Clear and oil backyard instruments
- Drain and winterize backyard mechanical tools in line with producer’s directions
- If you convey within the dwelling Christmas tree, preserve it away from heating registers
- Preserve reward vegetation in a cool, mild place. Slit foil at backside of pot to maintain roots from drowning.
