Regional guide
Central Florida Year-Round Vegetable Garden
A Central Florida year-round vegetable guide for UF/IFAS planting dates, occasional frost, warm soil needs, and late-summer pest pressure.
Climate signals
- UF/IFAS separates Florida vegetable planting dates into North, Central, and South Florida instead of one statewide calendar.
- Central Florida can grow vegetables year-round when planting dates are matched to crop, region, and local frost risk.
- Warm-season crops such as tomatoes and peppers are damaged by frost and do not thrive when soil is too cool.
- Late-summer and early-fall plantings can face insects and diseases that build quickly in hot weather.
Planning notes
- Use the Central Florida column in the UF/IFAS vegetable guide before choosing a sowing or transplant date.
- Plan cool-season greens, roots, and brassicas for the fall-through-spring window rather than only a northern-style spring start.
- Fit beans, cucumbers, okra, peppers, tomatoes, and squash into warm-season windows while watching frost risk and peak heat.
- Keep crop-family rotation visible because year-round planting can repeat related crops in the same bed quickly.
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.
- Roma Tomato Vegetable · Warm · 76 days
- California Wonder Pepper Vegetable · Warm · 72 days
- Marketmore 76 Cucumber Vegetable · Warm · 58 days
- Provider Bush Bean Vegetable · Warm · 50 days
- Clemson Spineless Okra Vegetable · Warm · 56 days
- Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce Vegetable · Cool · 45 days
- Bloomsdale Spinach Vegetable · Cool · 42 days
- French Breakfast Radish Vegetable · Cool · 28 days
- Georgia Southern Collards Vegetable · Cool · 65 days
- Delicata Winter Squash Vegetable · Warm · 100 days
Related regional guides
- South Florida Year-Round Vegetable Garden UF/IFAS South Florida guide for below-State-Road-70 vegetable windows, rare frost, year-round timing, pest pressure, and rotation.
- North Florida Frost-Window Vegetable Garden UF/IFAS North Florida guide for north-of-State-Road-40 scope, late-frost checks, spring/fall windows, pest pressure, and rotation.