Garden Calendar for the Pacific Northwest

January

  • Start lettuce, leeks in cold frame
  • Prune fruit trees

    • February

  • Plant Garlic, snow peas, fava beans
  • Daffodils up
  • Seattle Flower Show
  • Plant fruit trees, roses, raspberries

    • March

  • Apples bud out
  • Plant peas, carrots, lettuce, spinach, chard, cabbage
  • Plant Jerusalem Artichokes, potatoes
  • Daffodils bloom
  • Bees start flying
  • Still freezing

    • April

  • Daffodils and tulips bloom
  • Plant peas, carrots, parsely, beets, chard, lettuce, potatoes
  • Plant scarlet runner beans, ie Painted Lady
  • Plant Potatoes
  • Master Gardener's Sale in Seattle
  • Medlar Blooms
  • Plant new Rhododendrons

    • May

  • Plant Tomatoes, beans, beets, carrots, squash
  • Rhododendrons blooming.
  • Master Gardener's sale in Shelton

    • June

  • First roses bloom
  • Plant beans and peas
  • Put soaker hoses on roses, tomatoes and raspberries
  • Cut the tops off garlic

    • July

  • Harvest beans, tomatoes, squash
  • Mulch roses

    • August

  • Harvest garlic
  • Last planting of peas and beans
  • Plant carrots and beets

    • September

  • Turn off water to Tomatoes
  • Mulch Roses
  • Apples Ripe
  • Harvest Potatoes

    • October

  • Plant Garlic
  • Plant daffodils and tulips
  • First frosts

    • November

  • Plant spring bulbs, tulips and daffodils

    • December

  • Lay out new beds with hot compost