7 Spring Gardening Tasks You Can Get Started on Now

If you’re itching to get outside and start preparing your backyard and gardens for warmer weather, then we have good news. There are a few tasks you can do now to make it even easier when the weather finally turns.

With the help of some of our favorite gardening experts, we rounded up a few suggestions. 

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Even if you’re eager to get outside, the weather might not agree. If that’s the case, Megan Foster, a perennial and bulb expert for American Meadows, says there’s a pre-gardening task that’s perfect for indoors: uses these months to organize garden work-in-progress photos. 

“If you’re like me, you have a ton of phone pics scattered throughout the growing season,” Foster says. “It can be a good exercise to comb through the seasons and make an album of the past year’s gardens, making notes about what you loved and what was maybe worth a rethink.”

Once you’ve done this, Foster suggests then taking a look at any holes that you can fill this year in your bloom sequence, ways you can change or update your color palette, or options for adding new heights and textures this year. 

“Bonus, when you are at the garden center or feeling inspired online, you have a quick reference in the palm of your hand when you ask, ‘Would that fit?’” she says. 

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According to Lauren Carvahlo, a High Country Gardens horticulturist, now is the perfect time to shop for your plant-must haves—most gardening retailers, she says, offer early bird sales to get consumers excited for the season ahead.

“This is the perfect time to hone-in on those specialty items that may be hard to find or in short supply,” Carvahlo says. “Start the hunt early to make sure you don’t miss out on those rare