When to start planting website?

[Sarah_Mom2Four]

I've been googling but I'm just not using the right keywords and can't find myself a site that lists when you start different veggies for zone 4. If anyone has a favorite site I would REALLY appreciate it. Normally I'm google savy but I think I'm just tired

 

[vfem]

I hope this helps:
http://www.thevegetablegarden.info/resources/planting-schedules/zones-3-4-planting-schedule

If you have any further concerns for your area:
http://www.thevegetablegarden.info/resources/cooperative-extensions

My nursery is reminding me with NC being so strange to just hold off moving a good amount of my plants until April 15th.

 

[digitS']

Trying to use minimum WINTER temperatures (hardiness zones) to schedule growing season activities may be a little tuff.

Can you find your city in this Weather Service freeze/frost information? Using the "Select a State(PDF)" is probably the best.

Probably a gardener should use the 50% probability of 32F date - if it looks like a normal spring to you this year. That will be the average date of last spring frost.

This is a planting guide from Purdue University. The information looks real good to me for starting plants indoors even if it isn't my state, nor yours either .

Happy planting !

Steve

 

[digitS']

You had asked about a "favorite" site, Sarah.

Purdue has lots of good stuff but the Growing Guides at Cornell would be hard to beat.

Steve

 

[smom1976]

I got a lot of info from my county extention office..

they even reminded me NOT to cut back all my winter dead plants till the middle of this month because of frost.. I had that incling and pushed it till the middle of march.. now why cant the weeds get killed off by the frost??

 

[vfem]

now why cant the weeds get killed off by the frost??

I just learned that is because the germinate new seeds in the spring. I was told to treat the lawn for weeds about the time that Lilac blooms.... that is their germination time!!!

We're going to try that this year. Though Lilac doesn't grow here, so we'll be doing it the last week of March.

 

[Sarah_Mom2Four]

Thanks so much you are all always so helpful! Gardening is such a learning process, but it's so exciting.

 

[Catalina]

Try this http://www.extension.umn.edu/topics.html?topic=5&subtopic=157

It's the U of MN extension web page for gardening veggies.