To-Do List for January

Zone 6

• Study the "skeleton" of your landscape and decide where to put new structures, such as pathways and arbors.
• Keep bird feeders well stocked with favorites, such as black oil sunflower seeds.
• Discard old seeds for the garden; mail orders for new seeds.
• Create a computer database of your garden plants with notes on performance.
• Rake heavy snow off shrubs.
• Start seeds of pansies, dusty miller, browallia, begonias, snapdragons, and delphiniums indoors under lights.
• At month's end, start seeds of onions, leeks, broccoli, cabbage, and cauliflower indoors under lights.