Seeds for Gardens

Calendar

A year of sowing

Generic garden calendars lie. Match a ZIP first and the months make sense against your frost dates.

Zone matcher

Which seeds will grow in your garden

Enter a US ZIP. We map it to a USDA-style zone, typical frost dates, and what is worth sowing this week — not a dump of 600 packets.

Showing a national sketch until you match a ZIP. Then each month rewrites to your frost dates.

  1. January

    Order seed. Sketch the bed. Do not sow outdoors.

  2. February

    Peppers and alliums indoors in cold zones. Still planning in the north.

  3. March

    Tomatoes indoors 6 weeks before last frost. Lettuce and brassicas can start.

  4. April

    Cool crops out. Harden off tomatoes as last frost approaches.

  5. May

    Warm-season transplant and direct-sow in most of the country.

  6. June

    Beans, squash, basil, zinnias. Keep sowing lettuce in the north.

  7. July

    Harvest. Shade lettuce. Count days to first frost before a fall sowing.

  8. August

    Fall greens go in now in zones 5–7. Skip new tomatoes.

  9. September

    Last radish and spinach. Prep garlic ground.

  10. October

    Garlic. Clean-up. Notes for next year while you still remember.

  11. November · now

    Mulch. Indoor herbs if you want a winter crop.

  12. December

    Rest. Inventory leftover seed. Don't buy 40 tomato varieties.