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What to Plant Now
Find what to plant this week where you live, from state extension planting calendars and NOAA frost dates. Covers every county in Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, Texas, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Photo: Hand lifting tomato seedlings with roots from a seed tray for transplanting. Dwight Sipler from Stow, MA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Which planting calendar each state uses
Tennessee
UT Extension publishes one set of spring and fall dates for the whole state (W 346-B), with SP291G for fall gardens.
Georgia
UGA Extension publishes statewide dates written for Middle Georgia (C963 and B577).
North Carolina
NC State Extension publishes separate calendars for the Western, Central and Eastern regions (AG-756).
Texas
Texas A&M AgriLife gives dates as weeks before or after the last and first frost (EHT-077), worked out here for each county.
Pennsylvania
Penn State Extension Master Gardener guides give dates for a May 1 last frost, shifted here by each county’s own frost date; Philadelphia has its own guide.
Ohio
OSU Extension’s Ohio Gardening Calendar is written for zone 6a, with spring dates 1 to 2 weeks earlier in zones 6b and 7a.
How to read frost dates
The 50% date
In half of the years from 1991 to 2020 the last spring 32°F night came on or after this date. It is the date most planting guides mean by “average last frost”.
The 10% date
Only about 1 year in 10 has a freeze after this spring date. Waiting for it lowers the risk for tomatoes, peppers and other tender plants.
Hard freeze at 28°F
Most cool-season vegetables survive a light frost but are damaged at 28°F. County pages list the 28°F dates as well.
Nearest station
Each county uses the closest NOAA station with a full 30-year record. County pages show its name, distance and elevation.
Fall dates
The first fall frost date is counted the same way: a 10% fall date means a freeze before it in about 1 year in 10.
Season length
The growing season is the number of days between the last spring and first fall 32°F freeze in half of years.
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What to plant now: questions
How is the planting list worked out?
Each state's land-grant extension service publishes vegetable planting dates. The list shows the crops whose window is open this week for your county.
Why do some states list "start indoors"?
Only calendars that publish indoor seed starting dates show them. The others give outdoor dates only.
Photos: Hand lifting tomato seedlings with roots from a seed tray for transplanting: Dwight Sipler from Stow, MA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Rows of tiny green seedlings growing in black plastic seed trays: Pascal Kings, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Rows of green and red lettuce growing in wooden-edged beds with drip irrigation: SA, The Green Ark, Bostanie, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Rainbow chard growing beside orange marigolds in a raised garden bed: Missvain, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Crop field bordered by a grassy edge and tree line in Gadsden, Tennessee: Brian Stansberry, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Autumn color around a quiet cove at Richard B. Russell State Park: Shawn Taylor, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr; Clouds filling valleys below spruce from the Double Top overlook, Jackson County: w_lemay, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Flickr; Dry grassland and fence line under a pale plains sky: BaronBrian, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr; Maple and conifers at a sunny field edge on State Game Lands 122, Crawford County: Nicholas A. Tonelli, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr; Rolling pasture valley and wooded hills in Salem Township, Jefferson County: Nyttend, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.