September is the reset button for a Virginia garden. With the first fall frost still six to twelve weeks away across most of the state, this is the month…

October is a planting month in Virginia, not a waiting month. Garlic and shallots go into the ground, along with spinach, kale, and spring bulbs like…

By November, Virginia’s window for planting new vegetables has mostly closed.

By May, Virginia’s last spring frost window (March 20 to April 3, per NOAA NCEI data for coastal Virginia Beach) has already closed across most of the…

Cold-hardy crops go in through March across most of Virginia: peas, onion sets, lettuce, spinach, and brassica transplants can all handle open ground.

By June, Virginia gardens sit squarely in the warm-season stretch. The state’s last frost window (March 20 to April 3 at the coastal reference station)…

July in Virginia means the frost windows are irrelevant, the soil is warm clear through, and the job is less about planting from scratch than about…

January puts almost nothing new into open Virginia soil. Garlic and shallots still go in where the ground hasn’t locked up, bare-root fruit trees and…

Little goes into open ground in Virginia in February, and that is not a failure of the calendar, it is the frost math working exactly as it should.

December in Virginia sits deep inside the dormant season for almost the entire state.