Regional guide
Central Missouri Spring and Fall Vegetable Garden
A Central Missouri spring-and-fall vegetable guide for gardeners using MU Extension's Central Missouri planting windows instead of one statewide date.
Climate signals
- MU Extension separates vegetable planting dates into South, Central, and North Missouri columns.
- The calendar lists second fall crop dates under spring dates where a vegetable can be planted again.
- The Ozark Plateau uses North Missouri dates because higher elevation can mean later spring and earlier fall frosts.
- Central Missouri warm-season windows place beans, cucumbers, squash, tomato transplants, and watermelons in late April or May, while sweet corn can continue as a longer 4/25-to-8/1 succession window.
Planning notes
- Use beets, broccoli, cabbage, spinach, and turnips for March-to-April cool-season starts and late July-to-August fall resets.
- Reserve late April and May bed space for snap beans, cucumbers, squash, tomato transplants, and watermelon; keep sweet corn on its own longer succession row.
- Check crop-specific Central Missouri rows before repeating a planting because fall windows differ by crop.
- Treat this as a Central Missouri guide; Ozark Plateau and North or South Missouri gardens should use their matching MU column.
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.
- Detroit Dark Red Beet Vegetable · Cool · 58 days
- Waltham 29 Broccoli Vegetable · Cool · 74 days
- Golden Acre Cabbage Vegetable · Cool · 64 days
- Bloomsdale Spinach Vegetable · Cool · 42 days
- Purple Top White Globe Turnip Vegetable · Cool · 55 days
- Provider Bush Bean Vegetable · Warm · 50 days
- Golden Bantam Sweet Corn Vegetable · Warm · 80 days
- Marketmore 76 Cucumber Vegetable · Warm · 58 days
- Waltham Butternut Squash Vegetable · Warm · 95 days
- Roma Tomato Vegetable · Warm · 76 days
- Sugar Baby Watermelon Vegetable · Warm · 80 days
Related regional guides
- North Missouri and Ozark Plateau Vegetable Garden A North Missouri and Ozark Plateau guide for MU Extension north-column dates, later spring frosts, earlier fall frosts, and source-name matches.
- South Missouri Vegetable Planting Calendar A South Missouri planting calendar for MU Extension south-column dates, spring and fall crop rows, and source-name catalog examples.
- Missouri Vegetable Variety Recommendations A Missouri variety guide using MU Extension Table 2 source-name matches for vegetables selected under Missouri growing conditions.