To-Do List for January

Zone 7

• On mild days, remove winter weeds, such as wild onions and chickweed.
• Sow seeds of Shirley poppies (Papaver rhoeas) for bloom in May and June.
• Sow larkspur seeds directly in flowerbeds where you want them to grow; look for blooms by midspring.
• Indoors, start seeds of perennials or slow-growing annuals, like coleus and geraniums, beneath lights.
• Start seeds of cabbage, early lettuce, and at the end of the month, broccoli.
• When onion and cabbage transplants are available at the garden center, select the best ones, then plant them in the garden beneath a row cover.
• Near the end of the month, weed the asparagus bed and strawberry plot, then feed the plants and renew the thinning mulches.