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When to Plant Potatoes in Pennsylvania

For potatoes in Pennsylvania, spring planting starts between Mar 2 (Delaware County) and Apr 24 (Warren County), according to Penn State Extension.

Photo: Potato plant growing in a garden bed. Kolforn (Kolforn), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

More planting dates for Pennsylvania

Planting dates for each crop in Pennsylvania, from the Penn State Extension calendar.

Tomatoes

Peppers

Sweet Corn

Green Beans

Cucumbers

Squash

Lettuce

Onions

Planting potatoes in Pennsylvania: questions

When do you plant potatoes in Pennsylvania?

For potatoes in Pennsylvania, spring planting starts between Mar 2 (Delaware County) and Apr 24 (Warren County), according to Penn State Extension.

Can I plant potatoes in the fall in Pennsylvania?

The Penn State Extension calendar used here lists no fall window for potatoes.

How do frost dates affect planting potatoes?

Yes. The Pennsylvania frost dates page gives the 10% and 50% dates for every county.

Where do these dates for potatoes come from?

Master Gardeners Philadelphia Planting Guide (Planting guide of vegetables grown in the Philadelphia area); Transplanting Guide.

Do these dates change by county?

Each county's dates move with its own average frost dates.

Photos: Potato plant growing in a garden bed: Kolforn (Kolforn), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Long neat rows of green potato plants stretching across a farm field: Malcolm Neal, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Potato plants growing in a home garden: Geo Lightspeed7, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Meadow ringed by red and gold autumn trees in the Wykoff Run Natural Area, Cameron County: Nicholas A. Tonelli, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr; Rolling hayfields and a farmhouse on the hill in Mount Pleasant Township, Columbia County: Nicholas A. Tonelli, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr; Tomato plant with fruit in a garden: MavisLee, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Pepper plant in a kitchen garden loaded with green, yellow and red peppers: NPS, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; Field of sweet corn in summer: Marathon, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Clusters of long green bean pods hanging from a climbing bean vine: Nirajan_pant, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Cucumber plants growing in a greenhouse bed: HARTLEPOOLMARINA2014, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Harvested zucchini and summer squash: nociveglia from Appennino Emiliano, Italy, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Leaf lettuce growing in a garden: GT1976, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Long rows of green onion plants growing in sandy farm soil: ליזי שאנן, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.