Planning path

Succession Sowing Planner

Plan repeat sowing windows from catalog succession intervals, days to maturity, heat risk, frost risk, and extension succession guidance.

Succession workflow

Small repeat batches

Sow smaller batches at planned intervals instead of planting the entire crop at once.

Replace spent crops

Reuse space after a short-lived crop is harvested, removed, or declines in quality.

Different maturity dates

Stagger harvest by combining repeat sowings with varieties that mature at different speeds.

Last useful sowing

Stop repeat sowing when days to maturity, first-frost timing, or peak summer heat make the next crop unrealistic.

Record the interval

Use each catalog entry's repeat interval as a planning prompt, then adjust for local weather and crop stress.

Regional succession checks

Pair catalog repeat intervals with regional planting windows, soil temperature, spring/fall resets, and local succession examples before filling beds in waves.

• Ohio Central Normal-Season Vegetable Garden OSU central Ohio checks for 7-to-10-day succession rows, regional timing offsets, and fall garden resets
• Minnesota Soil-Temperature Vegetable Garden UMN checks for repeat leaf lettuce, radish, and kohlrabi windows, soil temperature, and freeze-date timing
• Willamette Valley Oregon Garden Calendar OSU monthly calendar checks for repeated outdoor sowing, average-weather caveats, and soil thermometer timing
• Central Missouri Spring and Fall Vegetable Garden MU Extension central-column checks for cool-season repeats, spring/fall rows, and sweet-corn succession timing

Succession-ready seed candidates

• French Breakfast Radish Repeat every 7 days · 28 days
• Astro Arugula Repeat every 10 days · 35 days
• Bloomsdale Spinach Repeat every 10 days · 42 days
• Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce Repeat every 14 days · 45 days
• Southern Giant Curled Mustard Repeat every 14 days · 45 days
• White Stem Bok Choy Repeat every 14 days · 45 days
• Provider Bush Bean Repeat every 14 days · 50 days
• Santo Cilantro Repeat every 14 days · 50 days
• Vit Mache Corn Salad Repeat every 14 days · 50 days
• Early White Vienna Kohlrabi Repeat every 14 days · 55 days
• Purple Top White Globe Turnip Repeat every 14 days · 55 days
• Minowase Daikon Radish Repeat every 14 days · 60 days
• Golden Bantam Sweet Corn Repeat every 14 days · 80 days
• Red Garnet Amaranth Repeat every 21 days · 45 days
• Bouquet Dill Repeat every 21 days · 55 days
• Detroit Dark Red Beet Repeat every 21 days · 58 days
• Marketmore 76 Cucumber Repeat every 21 days · 58 days
• Common Summer Savory Repeat every 21 days · 60 days
• German Chamomile Repeat every 21 days · 60 days
• Lacinato Kale Repeat every 21 days · 60 days
• Pacific Beauty Calendula Repeat every 21 days · 60 days
• Golden Acre Cabbage Repeat every 21 days · 64 days
• Blue Boy Bachelor's Button Repeat every 21 days · 65 days
• Evergreen Bunching Onion Repeat every 21 days · 65 days
• Genovese Basil Repeat every 21 days · 68 days
• Danvers 126 Carrot Repeat every 21 days · 70 days
• Waltham 29 Broccoli Repeat every 21 days · 74 days
• California Giant Zinnia Repeat every 21 days · 75 days
• Envy Edamame Soybean Repeat every 21 days · 80 days
• Florence Fennel Repeat every 21 days · 80 days
• Red Noodle Yardlong Bean Repeat every 21 days · 80 days
• Green Curled Endive Repeat every 21 days · 85 days
• Chief Mix Celosia Repeat every 21 days · 90 days
• Mammoth Sunflower Repeat every 21 days · 90 days
• Tall Maximum Snapdragon Repeat every 21 days · 100 days
• Buckwheat Cover Crop Repeat every 28 days · 35 days
• Sweet Alyssum Repeat every 28 days · 50 days
• Bright Lights Swiss Chard Repeat every 28 days · 55 days
• French Marigold Repeat every 28 days · 55 days
• Georgia Southern Collards Repeat every 28 days · 65 days
• Sensation Mix Cosmos Repeat every 28 days · 75 days
• Tall Double Mix Strawflower Repeat every 28 days · 80 days
• Globe Amaranth Gomphrena Repeat every 28 days · 85 days
• Indian Summer Rudbeckia Repeat every 28 days · 90 days

Supporting planning paths

• Succession Sowing Seeds 44 catalog entries with repeat intervals
• Planting Calendar Tool Turn repeat intervals into dated sowing tasks
• Fall Planting Planner 29 succession crops also have first-frost windows
• Quick-Maturity Seeds 24 60-day-or-faster succession candidates
• Cool Season Seeds 20 cool-season succession candidates

Source basis

• CSU vegetable planting guide 15 entries cite this source
• MU Extension vegetable planting calendar Central Missouri Spring and Fall Vegetable Garden regional succession source
• OSU Extension An educator's guide to vegetable gardening Willamette Valley Oregon Garden Calendar regional succession source
• OSU Extension Planning for the Garden Ohio Central Normal-Season Vegetable Garden regional succession source
• Penn State cole crops for home vegetable gardens 3 entries cite this source
• Seed Savers seed saving guide 12 entries cite this source
• UMD Extension planting vegetables in succession Successive planting, replacement planting, and maturity-date staggering guidance
• UMN companion planting guide 2 entries cite this source
• UMN planting the vegetable garden 8 entries cite this source
• UMN starting seeds indoors 3 entries cite this source
• Wisconsin Extension cover crops and green manures 1 entry cites this source
• WVU Extension basics of succession planting Repeat sowing intervals, quick crop examples, and planning-window guidance