NORTHWEST Your CHECKLIST
PLANT
Set out seedlings of broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, chives, kale, kohlrabi, lettuce, onions, parsley, spinach, and Swiss chard. Also plant seed potatoes and rhubarb. Sow arugula, beets, carrots, cilantro, peas, and radishes.
Bring out angel’s trumpet, dahlias, fuchsias, and pelargoniums that overwintered indoors. Plant dahlia tubers right away. Repot others, keep them in a bright, protected place, and plant out after frost danger has passed.
Bedding plants make maximum impact when they’re massed. Cool-season classics include calendula, English daisy, Iceland poppy, pansy, snapdragon, stock, and sweet alyssum.
Repair lawns by roughing up bare spots with a rake, overseeding, covering with a quarter inch of planting mix, and keeping it all watered well.
Check nurseries for favorite perennials such as basket-ofgold, bleeding heart, columbine, Corsican hellebore,…
