What to Plant, Month by Month

Pick a month for zone-by-zone planting lists — what to start indoors, what goes in the ground, and the exact windows for each crop. Prefer to browse by crop? See when to plant, by crop.

Why month pages and crop pages disagree with your seed packet

They shouldn't — they're the same arithmetic from different directions. Seed packets say "6–8 weeks before last frost"; these pages have already looked up the typical frost dates for each zone and done the counting. The month view answers "it's March — what now?", the crop view answers "when do tomatoes go in?", and both hand off to the planting calendar for windows built on your own city's frost dates from the ZIP lookup.