What to Plant in Florida in August
August is Florida’s hardest gardening month to get right: soil and air are too hot for most direct-sown vegetables almost everywhere in the state, so the…
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August is Florida’s hardest gardening month to get right: soil and air are too hot for most direct-sown vegetables almost everywhere in the state, so the…
By April, Florida’s growing calendar has split into two different stories depending on where you stand.
September in Delaware still gives you a real planting window. The first fall frost at the Wilmington reference station lands between October 26 and…
October in Delaware still lets you get garlic, shallots, and a handful of hardy greens into the ground, especially in the first half of the month before…
Garlic and shallots are still the main event in Delaware gardens this month, going into ground that hasn’t frozen yet.
May is Delaware’s green light month: the reference weather station’s frost window closed between April 3 and April 14, so by the time May opens…
Late March in Delaware is the real start of the outdoor garden season, but the ground still isn’t safe for anything tender.
June in Delaware means the frost risk from early April is long gone, so this is the month for warm-season crops that need real heat: tomatoes, peppers…
Delaware gardeners plant fast-maturing summer crops early in July (bush beans, cucumbers, summer squash, okra) and start counting backward for fall…
January puts almost nothing new into open ground in Delaware. Between the April 3 to April 14 last-frost window and the October 26 to November 7…