Ready in Winter

A Gardner’s Guide to Getting Ready for Spring

Feel ready to “spring” into action? Get a head start by taking care of these gardening tasks in the coming weeks.

  • Spray fruit trees with horticultural oil
  • Prune fruit trees
  • Schedule spring cleanup appointments and/or annual lawn maintenance with landscapers
  • Inquire about professional landscaping design consults
  • Take measurements/pictures of your yard and gardening spaces to have on hand.
  • Create a garden journal or calendar
  • Review 2023 garden successes and challenges in your journal to help you plan for the coming season
  • Build a compost bin for your kitchen and garden scraps
  • Research gardening techniques such as companion planting, vertical gardening, permaculture, seed saving, or anything else of interest
  • Get inspired by browsing Proven Winners. Look for perennials and shrubs that tolerate Zone 5 or colder for this region.
  • Some seedlings can be started indoors
  • Organize, repair and clean garden accessories
  • Clean and sharpen garden tools
  • Shop for spring planting bulbs and store until ready
  • If needed, reseed your lawn prior to the ground thawing. Check out this Purdue article about Spring reseeding.
  • Send us an email for general plant availability questions at Gardencenter@wrfnursery.com

Our garden center typically opens on or around March 1st, with most plant shipments arriving in April. If you would like to schedule a visit prior to this, call us at (219) 462-TREE.

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