Planting time for garden vegetables depends on the type of vegetable you are growing. In general, there are two types of vegetables, cool weather vegetable and the warm weather vegetable.
Vegetables that cannot survive a frost of any type are warm weather vegetables and should not be planted in the vegetable garden until you are sure the last frost has passed.
Vegetable gardening in late spring is the appropriate time to start planting warm weather vegetables that do well when daily temperatures are between 65 to 95 degrees and the soil has warmed up. Here's a list of summer vegetables that are popular in the U.S., in alphabetical order:
Beans
Corn
Crowder Peas
Cucumbers
Eggplant *
Green Beans *
Okra
Peppers *
Potatoes
Pumpkins
Soybeans
Squash
Sweet Potatoes
Tomatoes *
Zucchini
* When growing vegetables in containers these are good candidates for easy to medium success. Vine crops like melons are very difficult.
When planting time for garden vegetables arrives, there are a couple of options to consider. You can start growing vegetables in containers or by planting nursery starts or seeds directly into the ground. Keep in mind that you can get a jump-start on growing vegetables if you plan ahead and start growing your vegetable plants indoors from seeds. This may be done weeks ahead of time so that when planting time for your garden comes, you've already got big, healthy plants to transplant. Some vegetables, such as corn and green beans, do not transplant very easily, whereas tomatoes and peppers do just fine.
Planting time for garden vegetables depends on the type of vegetable you are growing. In general, there are two types of vegetables, cool weather vegetable and the warm weather vegetable.
Vegetables that cannot survive a frost of any type are warm weather vegetables and should not be planted in the vegetable garden until you are sure the last frost has passed.
Vegetable gardening in late spring is the appropriate time to start planting warm weather vegetables that do well when daily temperatures are between 65 to 95 degrees and the soil has warmed up. Here's a list of summer vegetables that are popular in the U.S., in alphabetical order:
