September in West Virginia sits in the gap between summer’s last tomatoes and the first frost, which typically lands somewhere between October 18 and…

By October, West Virginia gardens are past their summer peak and running against the first fall frost, which lands somewhere between October 18 and…

By November, the ground in West Virginia has already had its first hard frost almost everywhere in the state, so the honest answer is that very little…

By May, most of West Virginia has cleared its last spring frost window of April 9 to April 23, which means the month splits into two jobs: finishing off…

March in West Virginia sits before the frost window closes, so the ground stays the boss.

June in West Virginia sits well past the state’s last spring frost window (April 9 to April 23), so this is the month when nearly every warm-season crop…

July in West Virginia sits deep inside the growing season, well past the last spring frost window of April 9 to April 23 and still more than three months…

January in West Virginia is not a planting month for open ground in most of the state.

Short answer: in most of West Virginia, February is not a month for putting seeds or transplants into open ground.

December offers almost nothing for open ground in West Virginia: garlic and shallots still working into unfrozen soil, cold frames holding hardy greens…