Spring Garden Tasks: Clean-Up, Planting, Feeding and Pest Watch
A practical spring checklist: tidy beds, wake up the soil, prune at the right time, sow and plant out, feed and mulch, and start your pest…
Seasonal Gardening
The complete year-round calendar
9 guides
Start with the pillar guide
Seasonal Gardening: The Complete Year-Round Calendar
Timing decides success in the garden. This pillar guide explains how the seasons work, how to find your own dates, and what to do in spring, summer, autumn and winter, in temperate and in hot climates.
Read the pillar guideThe 8 guides in this pillar
Read the pillar first, then dive into any guide. Each one links back to the pillar and to its neighbours.
Summer Garden Maintenance: Watering, Pruning, Deadheading and Harvest
Keep the garden thriving through heat and growth: water deeply, mulch, deadhead, feed containers, prune after flowering, harvest regularly and manage pests and shade.
Autumn Garden Tasks: Bulbs, Clean-Up and Winter Preparation
Autumn is the best time for planting trees, shrubs and spring bulbs. Follow this checklist for clearing beds, collecting leaves, feeding soil, protecting tender plants and…
Winter Garden Care: Protection, Planning and Indoor Projects
Winter is rest and preparation. Protect plants from cold and wet, prune dormant trees, maintain tools, feed the birds, start seeds indoors and plan the year…
The Gardener’s Year-Round Checklist: What to Do Each Month
A month-by-month garden calendar for temperate climates, with notes for hot and subtropical regions. Know exactly what to sow, plant, prune, feed and protect in every…
Succession Planting: Staggering for Continuous Harvest and Bloom
Avoid gluts and gaps. Learn the four succession methods (repeat sowing, intercropping, relay planting, mixed varieties), with sowing intervals for popular crops and flowers.
Frost Protection Methods: Row Covers, Cloches and When to Act
Know when frost threatens and how to protect plants: fleece and row covers, cloches, cold frames, mulch, watering tricks and moving pots. Includes what to protect…
Planning for Next Year: Evaluate, Order and Prepare
Use the quiet months to review what worked, learn from failures, design new beds, plan crop rotation, order seed and prepare soil and tools, so next…
