Regional guide
Middle Georgia Vegetable Garden Calendar
UGA Circular 943 middle-Georgia calendar for monthly tasks, north/south timing offsets, succession planting, and fall reset rows.
Climate signals
- UGA Extension Vegetable Garden Calendar is Circular 943 and was published with full review on March 10, 2026.
- The calendar says its monthly recommendations and spring and fall planting dates are for typical dates in middle Georgia, a belt from Columbus through Macon to Augusta.
- For extreme south Georgia, spring planting dates can be 2 to 3 weeks earlier and fall planting dates can be as much as 2 weeks later.
- For north Georgia, spring planting dates are 1 to 3 weeks later as you progress northward through the mountain counties, while fall dates are about 2 weeks earlier.
- The calendar is based on long-term average dates of the last killing frost in spring and first killing frost in fall, and says each year needs weather judgment.
Planning notes
- Use the source as a middle Georgia monthly garden-work calendar, not an all-state date table or a replacement for local frost checks.
- The source frames spring plantings as March to May and fall plantings as mid-July to September, with January and February used for planning, soil tests, compost, and seed boxes.
- February early plantings include carrots, collards, lettuce, mustard, English peas, radishes, spinach, and turnips.
- April warm-season or frost-tender choices include beans, sweet corn, cucumbers, eggplant, okra, peppers, tomatoes, and watermelon.
- Make a second planting within 2 to 3 weeks of the first planting of snap beans, corn, and squash; because the catalog lacks summer squash, this guide does not link squash IDs.
- July fall-reset guidance says July 20 is the last date for tomatoes, okra, corn, pole beans, and lima beans, then also plant cucumbers, squash, and snap beans.
- August guidance gives August 15 for snap beans and August 31 for cucumbers and squash, and starts broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, collards, kale, and onions for September setting.
- September to October cool-season rows include beets, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, collards, lettuce, mustard, radishes, spinach, and turnips.
- Use these priority catalog links as crop-row examples, not UGA variety endorsements.
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
- Golden Acre Cabbage Vegetable · Cool · 64 days
- Danvers 126 Carrot Vegetable · Shoulder · 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
- Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce Vegetable · Cool · 45 days
- Southern Giant Curled Mustard Vegetable · Cool · 45 days
- Clemson Spineless Okra Vegetable · Warm · 56 days
- Sugar Snap Pea Vegetable · Cool · 62 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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.