Check out the information and a "to do list" based on the plant hardiness zones across Canada, United States, and Europe.

If you do not know what planting zone you live in check the chart for the country you live in.

Planting zones in Canada
Planting zones in the USA
Planting zones in Europe

ZONES 1-3

• Sow cool weather vegetables early in the month. Make succession plantings of rasishes, lettuce, and spinach.
• Late in the month plant warm season vegetables like beans and cucumbers.
• Late in the month set out transplants of tomatoes, melons, peppers, eggplants, and squash.
• For tomatoes make sure you harden them off in a cold frame or an unheated porch or 7-10 days before transplanting them outdoors.
• If the nights are still cool protect your transplants with row covers or and old bed sheet works well.
• Plant hardy herbs. Start basil indoors.
• Harvest rhubarb and asparagus.
• Buy a garden diary for 30% off My 2010 Vegetable Garden Journal and resolve to write in it regularly this year!

ZONES 4-5

• Plant hardy herbs. Start basil indoors.
• Continue succession planting of crops like lettuce, cilantro, radish, and spinach.
• Thin seedlings like carrots, salad greens, and beets.
• Late in the month set out transplants of tomatoes, melons, peppers, eggplants, and squash.
• Weed and water as needed.
• Sow corn, beans, and pumpkins.
• Start late varieties of tomatoes now for a fall crop to harvest.
• For tomatoes make sure you harden them off in a cold frame or an unheated porch or 7-10 days before transplanting them outdoors. If the nights are still cool protect your transplants with row covers or and old bed sheet works well.
• Buy a garden diary at 30% off My 2010 Vegetable Garden Journal and resolve to write in it regularly this year!

ZONES 6-7

• Plant potatoes in the early part of the month.
• Begin to plant in the early part of the month.
• Begin to plant warms season vegetables such as beans, cucumbers, corn, melons and squash later in the month.
• Set out transplants of oregano, sweet marjoram, basil and rosemary.
• Sow seeds of cilantro, borage, thyme, and fennel.
• Plant bush beans every two weeks until mid July so you can be eating beans all summer long.
• Set out your tomato plants later in the month; make sure you still give them some protection in the cool evenings.
• Check plants daily for aphids and other pests or diseases.
• Buy a garden diary at 30% off My 2010 Vegetable Garden Journal and resolve to write in it regularly this year!

ZONES 8-10

• Plant hot weather crops like okra, melons, squash, and sweet potatoes.
• Plant hot weather herbs like basil and rosemary.
• Water your plants deeply so that the water will penetrate down to the plant roots.
• Watch for pests like aphids and cabbage worms.
• Set out your tomato plants later in the month; make sure you still give them some protection in the cool evenings
• Prune tall tomato plants so the flowers and fruit are exposed to the sunlight.
• Buy a garden diary at 30% off My 2010 Vegetable Garden Journal and resolve to write in it regularly this year!

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