Cool-season crops such as peas, spinach, radish, lettuce, carrots, beets, cabbage, broccoli, kale, collards, and turnips start as early as January 15 to March 15 depending on the crop.
Regional guide
Georgia Spring and Fall Vegetable Garden
A Georgia vegetable guide for UGA's approximate spring and fall planting chart, with cool-season repeats and warm-season windows.
Regional timing
Current regional planting plan
A Georgia vegetable guide for UGA's approximate spring and fall planting chart, with cool-season repeats and warm-season windows.
Source-backed timing
UGA Extension vegetable planting chart
Georgia
4 climate signals
Source
source cues
Local
conditions
- UGA labels the chart planting dates as approximate and ties days to maturity to cultivar, temperature, and general growing conditions.
- Cool-season crops such as peas, spinach, radish, lettuce, carrots, beets, cabbage, broccoli, kale, collards, and turnips start as early as January 15 to March 15 depending on the crop.
- Warm-season crops such as beans, corn, cucumbers, okra, peppers, eggplant, squash, tomatoes, and watermelon concentrate in March 15 through June 1 spring windows.
- Catalog priority
- 17 priority crops 17 catalog examples
- Climate checks
- 4 climate signals 4 planning notes
- Timing basis
- Use regional source signals source guidance first
Sugar Snap Pea, Bloomsdale Spinach, Detroit Dark Red Beet, Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce
Use March 15 to June 1 for major warm-season beds, with tomatoes listed March 25 to May 1 and watermelons March 20 to May 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.
Georgia Varieties
UGA 2025 variety guide for Georgia-tested vegetables, source-name catalog matches, and weak-link exclusions separate from planting-date windows.
Climate signals
- UGA labels the chart planting dates as approximate and ties days to maturity to cultivar, temperature, and general growing conditions.
- Cool-season crops such as peas, spinach, radish, lettuce, carrots, beets, cabbage, broccoli, kale, collards, and turnips start as early as January 15 to March 15 depending on the crop.
- Warm-season crops such as beans, corn, cucumbers, okra, peppers, eggplant, squash, tomatoes, and watermelon concentrate in March 15 through June 1 spring windows.
- Fall windows reopen for many crops, including beets, broccoli, cabbage, collards, cucumbers, eggplant, kale, lettuce, okra, peppers, radish, spinach, tomatoes, and turnips.
Planning notes
- Use the crop-specific early cool-season rows: peas end February 15, lettuce March 1, spinach March 15, carrots March 20, and beets or radish April 1.
- Use March 15 to June 1 for major warm-season beds, with tomatoes listed March 25 to May 1 and watermelons March 20 to May 1.
- Use June 15 to July 15 for a fall tomato reset, July 15 to August 15 for fall cucumbers, and July 25 to August 10 for fall bell peppers.
- Use September 1 to October 15 for radish and spinach, but keep lettuce to the September 1 to October 1 fall row and check local county frost timing.
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.
- Sugar Snap Pea Vegetable · Cool · 62 days
- Bloomsdale Spinach Vegetable · Cool · 42 days
- Detroit Dark Red Beet Vegetable · Cool · 58 days
- Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce Vegetable · Cool · 45 days
- French Breakfast Radish Vegetable · Cool · 28 days
- Danvers 126 Carrot Vegetable · Shoulder · 70 days
- Waltham 29 Broccoli Vegetable · Cool · 74 days
- Georgia Southern Collards Vegetable · Cool · 65 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
- Clemson Spineless Okra Vegetable · Warm · 56 days
- California Wonder Pepper Vegetable · Warm · 72 days
- Black Beauty Eggplant Vegetable · Warm · 80 days
- Roma Tomato Vegetable · Warm · 76 days
- Sugar Baby Watermelon Vegetable · Warm · 80 days
Related regional guides
- Georgia Vegetable Variety Recommendations UGA 2025 variety guide for Georgia-tested vegetables, source-name catalog matches, and weak-link exclusions separate from planting-date windows.
- Middle Georgia Vegetable Garden Calendar UGA Circular 943 middle-Georgia calendar for monthly tasks, north/south timing offsets, succession planting, and fall reset rows.