Free tool

Planting Planner

Enter your zip code. We look up your average last spring frost and first fall frost, then count back for each crop so you know exactly which week to start trays, transplant, and sow, in spring and again for fall.

Outside the US, or know your dates? Enter frost dates manually.

What are you growing?

Two planting seasons, spring and fall. Pick the crops you grow; the calendar works out every spring and fall task for them.

Your calendar

Next 12 months. Dates are targets, not deadlines; a week either side is fine. New to start trays, transplanting, or succession sowing? See the glossary.

Frost dates: NOAA 1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, nearest station to your zip, 50% probability of 32°F. Half of years frost comes earlier than the fall date shown, so hedge with row cover. Crop timing follows the count-back method in Your Fall Garden Starts in August.