Reviewed January 2025 as ANR-1165, the table pairs each vegetable with days to maturity and row x plant spacing.
Regional guide
Alabama North and South Vegetable Seasons Garden
An Alabama Extension guide for North and South Alabama vegetable seasons, spring/fall windows, maturity days, spacing, and not-recommended cells.
Regional timing
Current regional planting plan
Source-backed timing
Alabama Extension Vegetable Seasons in Alabama
Alabama Seasons
4 climate signals
Source
source cues
Local
conditions
- Alabama Extension's Vegetable Seasons in Alabama table separates spring and fall planting dates for North Alabama and South Alabama.
- Reviewed January 2025 as ANR-1165, the table pairs each vegetable with days to maturity and row x plant spacing.
- Some crop-season combinations are marked Not recommended, so the source table should be checked before copying a South Alabama window into North Alabama.
- Catalog priority
- 25 priority crops 25 catalog examples
- Climate checks
- 4 climate signals 9 planning notes
- Timing basis
- Use regional source signals source guidance first
Provider Bush Bean, Detroit Dark Red Beet, Waltham 29 Broccoli, Long Island Improved Brussels Sprouts
Beets are 50-75 days, with North Alabama spring March 15 - June 1, South Alabama spring February 1 - April 1, North Alabama fall August 1 - September 15, and South Alabama fall August 1 - October 1.
Calendar
Convert regional timing into dated sowing, transplant, and harvest jobs.
Frost dates
Keep hardiness zone context separate from local first and last frost dates.
All regions
Compare this guide with the broader regional atlas.
South Carolina
Clemson HGIC 1256 guide for South Carolina Piedmont and Coastal Plain planting-chart rows, freeze timing, spacing, and harvest days.
Climate signals
- Alabama Extension's Vegetable Seasons in Alabama table separates spring and fall planting dates for North Alabama and South Alabama.
- Reviewed January 2025 as ANR-1165, the table pairs each vegetable with days to maturity and row x plant spacing.
- Some crop-season combinations are marked Not recommended, so the source table should be checked before copying a South Alabama window into North Alabama.
- South Alabama spring windows start earlier than North Alabama for rows such as beans, cucumbers, okra, tomato, and watermelon.
Planning notes
- Beans (Lima, Butter & Snap) are 50-60 days, with North Alabama spring April 1 - July 15, South Alabama spring February 15 - May 1, North Alabama fall Not recommended, and South Alabama fall August 1 - September 15.
- Beets are 50-75 days, with North Alabama spring March 15 - June 1, South Alabama spring February 1 - April 1, North Alabama fall August 1 - September 15, and South Alabama fall August 1 - October 1.
- Broccoli is 50-97 days, with North Alabama spring March 1 - April 1, South Alabama spring February 1 - April 1, North Alabama fall August 1 - September 1, and South Alabama fall August 15 - October 1.
- Cucumbers are 50-65 days, with North Alabama spring April 1 - July 15, South Alabama spring March 1 - May 1, North Alabama fall August 1 - September 1, and South Alabama fall August 1 - September 15.
- Okra is 55-65 days, with North Alabama spring April 15 - June 15, South Alabama spring March 1 - May 1, North Alabama fall July 15 - August 15, and South Alabama fall August 1 - September 1.
- Tomato is 70-90 days, with North Alabama spring April 15 - June 15, South Alabama spring March 1 - May 1, North Alabama fall July 1 - August 1, and South Alabama fall July 15 - August 15.
- Watermelon is 80-90 days, with North Alabama spring May 15 - June 15, South Alabama spring March 1 - May 1, and fall planting Not recommended in both North Alabama and South Alabama.
- Sweet corn is 60-100 days, with North Alabama spring April 15 - June 1, South Alabama spring February 1 - May 1, North Alabama fall Not recommended, and South Alabama fall July 15 - September 1.
- Use these catalog crop examples only for crops covered by the Alabama Extension table; variety-specific details remain tied to each seed entry's own source.
Catalog crop examples
These catalog entries match crops covered by the regional timing source; variety-specific details remain tied to each seed entry's own source.
- Provider Bush Bean Vegetable · Warm · 50 days
- Detroit Dark Red Beet Vegetable · Cool · 58 days
- Waltham 29 Broccoli Vegetable · Cool · 74 days
- Long Island Improved Brussels Sprouts Vegetable · Cool · 100 days
- Golden Acre Cabbage Vegetable · Cool · 64 days
- Danvers 126 Carrot Vegetable · Shoulder · 70 days
- Snowball Y Cauliflower Vegetable · Cool · 70 days
- Georgia Southern Collards Vegetable · Cool · 65 days
- Golden Bantam Sweet Corn Vegetable · Warm · 80 days
- Marketmore 76 Cucumber Vegetable · Warm · 58 days
- Black Beauty Eggplant Vegetable · Warm · 80 days
- Lacinato Kale Vegetable · Cool · 60 days
- Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce Vegetable · Cool · 45 days
- Hale's Best Jumbo Melon Vegetable · Warm · 85 days
- Southern Giant Curled Mustard Vegetable · Cool · 45 days
- Clemson Spineless Okra Vegetable · Warm · 56 days
- California Wonder Pepper Vegetable · Warm · 72 days
- Small Sugar Pumpkin Vegetable · Warm · 100 days
- French Breakfast Radish Vegetable · Cool · 28 days
- Bloomsdale Spinach Vegetable · Cool · 42 days
- Delicata Winter Squash Vegetable · Warm · 100 days
- Waltham Butternut Squash Vegetable · Warm · 95 days
- Roma Tomato Vegetable · Warm · 76 days
- Purple Top White Globe Turnip Vegetable · Cool · 55 days
- Sugar Baby Watermelon Vegetable · Warm · 80 days
Related regional guides
- South Carolina Spring and Fall Garden Clemson HGIC 1256 guide for South Carolina Piedmont and Coastal Plain planting-chart rows, freeze timing, spacing, and harvest days.
- Mississippi Zone Planting Dates Vegetable Garden An MSU Extension guide for Mississippi Zone 1-5 vegetable planting dates, cool and warm crop windows, and transplant cutoffs.
- Louisiana North and South Vegetable Planting Guide An LSU AgCenter guide for north and south Louisiana vegetable dates, central and coastal caveats, seed depth, spacing, and harvest timing.
Dated sowing answers, where the data exists
Five regions on this site have a dated "what can I still sow today" page, built from the windows their state extension service publishes: Texas, North Florida, Central Maryland, New York City and York County, PA. Alabama Seasons is not one of them, and nothing on those pages applies here.
- Five regions have a dated first-frost answer; Alabama Seasons is not one of them yet The method behind the five covered regions: a published planting window, days to maturity, and the local first frost.