(for the Pacific Northwest)

Planning:

• Make a plot layout of your flower beds so you will remember where your spring bulbs are located
• When purchasing plants remember that plants not yet in bloom will actually bloom sooner, grow faster and be better established

 Planting:

• Best dates for transplanting by the moon cycles:
  Apr 15 – 28
• Best dates for sowing seeds by the moon cycles:
  Apr 5 & 6, 15 – 18, 26

 Maintenance:

• Begin digging new garden beds when the soil is workable
• Prepare the soil for seeds
• Start weeding your beds
• Remove winter mulch when new growth appears
• Replant new shrubs and perennials that have heaved out of the soil
• Finish transplanting any new shrubs before their buds swell
• Tidy the mulch in your shrub beds adding more where necessary
• Transplant and divide summer and fall-blooming perennials
• Add finished compost to your flower beds
• If you have started seedling inside harden them off
• Cut back shrubby herbs