As you can tell, the schedule is under construction, so "grow" along with me. Feel free to make suggestions, corrections and even criticisms, they are all welcome.

1. Remove and pack away all outdoor Christmas lighting. Check for frayed wiring and bad bulbs. Make the corrections now while you remember them.
2. Take the once-live Christmas tree to a county recycling location or place at the curb for city pick-up.
3. Make notes for items that will need repairing in the spring, such as caulking, painting.
4. Make plans for the vegetable garden or flowerbeds for the spring. Order plants, bulbs and seeds from seed catalogs.
5. Plant trees in January. Do not fertilize the first year.
6. Spray fruit trees with dormant oil.
7. Plant tulips and hyacinths which have been chilled for 6 weeks.

Plant these vegetables now: Mustard

1. Treat any fire ant mounds in and around flowerbeds or the lawn.
2. Start vegetable and flower seeds indoors
3. Heavy prune fruit trees and crepe myrtles
4. Transplant shrubs and trees now.
5. Plant bare-rooted rose bushes.
6. During the rest of January, as weather permits, turn garden and ready for spring planting.

Plant these vegetables now: broccoli seeds, cabbage, carrots, collards seeds, endive, kohlrabi seeds, lettuce, onion sets, parsley plants, English peas and turnips

1. Divide Daylilies at this time if they are large clumped and fertilize
2. Place new azaleas in the landscape, as needed. Do not fertilize azaleas now
3. Mow lawn to clean up debris. Do not scalp the lawn but use a medium height mower deck.
4. Start new compost pile.

Plant these vegetables now: beets, broccoli plants, Swiss Chard, collard plants, kohlrabi seeds, radishes, turnips

1. Prune roses, and fertilize with a good rose food. Work 1/4 cup epsom salts into the soil around each plant.
2. Plant summer flowering bulbs now.

Plant these vegetables now: potatoes, radishes, spinach

1. Mow the lawn for the second time with a medium height mower deck.
2. Fertilize shrubs using a balanced fertilizer, according to the package directions.
3. Plant potted poinsettias into the landscape. Begin color conditioning in October.

Plant these vegetables now: bush green beans, pole green beans, sweet corn, cucumbers, tomatoes

1. Fertilize azaleas and camelias with azalea-camelia fertilizer after flowering. Water well. Pruning is usually not needed, but now is the time to do it to remove scragglers.
2. Mow the lawn and fertilize with a premium 15-5-10 or 20-5-10, watering in well.
3. Plant second planting of green beans.

Plant these vegetables now: pole lima beans, muskmelons, pepper plants, pumpkins, summer squash, winter squash

1. Raise mower deck one notch when mowing the lawn this month.

Plant these vegetables now: eggplant, okra, watermelon

1. Hide some Easter Eggs in the lawn.
2. Invite some children and have an Easter Egg Hunt.
3. Place potted Easter lilies in sunny or partial-shady location. Water liberally and check for drainage.