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.
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.
Regional timing
Current regional planting plan
UGA Circular 943 middle-Georgia calendar for monthly tasks, north/south timing offsets, succession planting, and fall reset rows.
Source-backed timing
UGA Extension Vegetable Garden Calendar
Middle Georgia
5 climate signals
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- 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.
- Catalog priority
- 20 priority crops 20 catalog examples
- Climate checks
- 5 climate signals 9 planning notes
- Timing basis
- Use regional source signals source guidance first
Provider Bush Bean, Detroit Dark Red Beet, Waltham 29 Broccoli, Golden Acre Cabbage
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.
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A Georgia vegetable guide for UGA's approximate spring and fall planting chart, with cool-season repeats and warm-season windows.
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.