Fall Vegetable Transplants: Planning a Second Season
Use your first fall frost date to count back and schedule fall transplants: brassicas, greens, summer seed starting, hardening off in heat, and watering.
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Planning by hardiness zone and frost date
What your USDA hardiness zone does and does not tell you, how to read frost dates, building a seed starting calendar, and planning fall transplants.
Last Frost Date: How to Find It and How Much to Trust It
Learn where last frost dates come from, what the 10/50/90 percent probabilities mean, and how to turn a frost date into a safe planting schedule.
Build a Seed Starting Calendar from Your Frost Date
Turn one frost date into a full sowing and planting schedule: weeks indoors per crop, cool- versus warm-season timing, hardening off, and succession sowing.
USDA Hardiness Zones: What Your Zone Tells You
The USDA hardiness zone map shows average winter cold, not frost dates. Learn what a zone such as 7a means, how to find yours, and what to plan by instead.