By May, Kansas gardens are past the frost line and into full planting mode: tomatoes, peppers, squash, beans, corn, and melons all go outside this month…

March in Kansas sits well ahead of the average last spring frost, which the National Weather Service data puts between April 4 and April 18 for the…

By June, the frost question is settled almost everywhere in Kansas. Soil has warmed enough for beans, corn, squash, melons, and tomato and pepper…

July in Kansas isn’t a planting-shutdown month, but it’s a heat-management one.

For most of Kansas, January means the open garden stays closed. The soil is frozen or too wet to work across zones 5b to 7a, and the last spring frost…

February in Kansas sits well before the state’s last spring frost window of April 4 to April 18, so open-ground planting is mostly off the table.

December in Kansas answers most planting questions with a flat no. The state sits weeks past its first fall frost, soil temperatures are dropping toward…

August in Kansas belongs to the fall garden, not the summer one. With the first fall frost landing somewhere between October 23 and November 2 at the…

Kansas gardeners can put peas, onions, spinach, lettuce, radishes, and other cold-hardy crops in the ground for most of April, but the safe window for…