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GrowGuide

GrowGuide helps you plan a vegetable garden by informing you what you can sow, harden off, or transplant, week by week, based on your frost dates, in just four easy steps. To see what the results look like, view the sample output.

For spring vegetable garden planning, select the spring season and enter a planning date, your last spring frost date, and your first fall frost date. Sowing, hardening off, and transplanting tasks for spring plantings are calculated for you from these dates. Follow a similar procedure when planning your fall vegetable garden. Not all vegetable varieties can be grown in the fall garden, but for those that can, their seeds are started in the summer; GrowGuide will tell you which varieties and when to start them.
 
STEP 1: Select a growing season. (required)
You can plan a Spring or Fall vegetable garden.
I am planning my...
STEP 2: Select a planning date. (optional - see Note)
GrowGuide will base its calculations on this date. For example, if you select today's date, your GrowGuide data will show what you can be sowing, transplanting, and hardening off today.
Month
 Date
 Note: If no values are selected, the default is
today's date, which is .
STEP 3: Select your last spring frost date. (required)
To learn more about frost dates, read the Weekend Gardener FAQ.
Month
 Date
STEP 4: Select your first fall frost date. (required)
To learn more about frost dates, read the Weekend Gardener FAQ.
Month
 Date
 
 
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