* Get weeds out now before they go to seed.
* Start preparing soil for vegetable gardens, and plant early-season crops. Use a soil thermometer to tell when it's time to plant. Onions can go in the ground as soon as the soil is dry enough to work.
* Fertilize rhodies, azaleas and camellias with an acid-type fertilizer.
* Plant berry plants. Fertilize established caneberries.
* Watch for slugs, and trap, bait or otherwise dispose of them by your preferred method.
* Prune spring-flowering shrubs after blossoms fade.* Prune summer-blooming clematis.
* Divide and replant summer- and fall-blooming perennials if needed.
* Cut back ornamental grasses if you didn't in fall.
* Prune roses if you haven't already done so. Fertilize roses when they start putting on growth.
* Pollard (cut back severely) shrubs grown for winter color, such as redtwig dogwoods.
-- Homes & Gardens of the Northwest staff