Grow Abundantly All Year: Your Year-Round Vegetable Planting Schedule

Selected theme: Year-Round Vegetable Planting Schedule. Map your climate, plan your sowings, and harvest in every season with a friendly, practical calendar that turns dates into dinners. Join our gardeners, share your zone, and subscribe for monthly reminders.

Hardiness Zones and Frost Windows

Find your USDA hardiness zone, then note your average last spring frost and first autumn frost. These dates define safe transplant windows, indoor start timelines, and succession rhythms that keep salads coming even when weather argues otherwise.

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Microclimates and Season Extenders

South-facing walls, sheltered patios, and raised beds warm faster, granting earlier sowings. With row cover, cloches, or low tunnels, you can pull dates forward by one to two weeks. Record these tweaks so next season’s schedule is sharper and more generous.

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Maya’s Twelve-Month Salad Bed

In Zone 7, Maya sowed lettuce every ten days from March to October, protected late fall rows with fabric, and harvested mache in December. Her secret was a simple weekly checklist and courage to re-sow after failures. Share your zone and we’ll cheer you on.

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Direct Sowing When the Soil Wakes

As soil climbs to 40–50°F, sow peas, spinach, radishes, and arugula. Pencil recurring weekend slots for thin, weed, and re-sow. If a cold snap returns, row cover saves seedlings and your schedule, keeping momentum instead of starting over in frustration.

Transplant Timing for Brassicas

Start broccoli, cabbage, and cauliflower indoors four to six weeks before your last frost, then harden them off. Transplant two weeks before that frost if protected. Our newsletter nudges you exactly when to seed, pot up, and move outside without guessing.

Summer: Heat-Lovers, Shade, and Water Timing

Wait until nights hold above 55°F for tomatoes and peppers, then transplant and stake immediately. Tie vines weekly, prune lightly, and sow bush beans every fourteen days. Put these steps on recurring calendar tasks to prevent midseason chaos.

Summer: Heat-Lovers, Shade, and Water Timing

Mulch after soil warms to stabilize moisture and temperature. Water deeply two to three times weekly in mornings; adjust for heat waves. Side-dress tomatoes at first flower, then again three weeks later. Scheduling care beats guessing and saves summer harvests.

Summer: Heat-Lovers, Shade, and Water Timing

Sow lettuce at dusk under thirty percent shade cloth, and harvest early mornings. Cucumber successions every three weeks dodge pest spikes. Share your biggest heat hurdle in the comments, and we’ll reply with a date-based fix you can try next week.

Summer: Heat-Lovers, Shade, and Water Timing

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Fall: Count Backward and Reboot Beds

If first frost is October 20 and your cabbage needs seventy days, target an early August transplant. Row cover adds two to four frost-free weeks, shifting your schedule forward. Backward planning turns dates into confidence and reliable casseroles.

Fall: Count Backward and Reboot Beds

When potatoes lift, follow with carrots needing sixty to seventy-five days. After onions, sow spinach and tatsoi in tight ten-day waves. The schedule keeps beds occupied and plates colorful, while soil rests beneath compost and living roots.

Sow spinach six to eight weeks before first frost, then protect with low tunnels to harvest through winter thaws. Vent on sunny days, clamp fabric before night freezes, and mark weekly checks. Scheduling care prevents losses and keeps salads whispering green.

Start onions, leeks, and celery ten to twelve weeks before your last frost. Block repeat tasks: sanitize trays, pre-moisten mix, label, and bottom-water. A calendar reminder beats memory, giving seedlings consistent care and predictable transplant dates.

Log first blooms, earliest harvests, and the sowings that failed. Patterns emerge that sharpen next year’s schedule. Subscribe for our printable winter planner, then share one lesson you learned so others avoid the same calendar pothole.

Smart Scheduling: Rotations, Intervals, and Tools

Intervals That Keep Plates Full

Sow lettuce every seven to ten days, carrots every three weeks, and sweet corn in two to three blocks ten days apart. Match intervals to days-to-maturity and daylight. This rhythm prevents feast-or-famine and keeps the kitchen humming happily.

Rotate by Family and Spread Risk

Move nightshades, brassicas, and cucurbits yearly to limit disease buildup. Schedule legumes after heavy feeders to restore nitrogen. Rotation notes in your calendar ensure you never forget where tomatoes slept, saving soil and future harvests from trouble.

Tools That Turn Dates Into Dinners

Whether spreadsheets, wall calendars, or garden apps, set recurring tasks for sow, thin, transplant, feed, and harvest. Comment if you want our template with pre-filled intervals by crop; we’ll send a version tailored to your zone and frost dates.