Regional guide

North Carolina Piedmont Season-Window Garden

A North Carolina Piedmont guide for half-hardy spring crops, warm-season beds, summer succession, fall greens, and overwintered or cover-crop planning.

Climate signals

• NC State Extension lists February 1 to April 15 for half-hardy flowers, spinach, beets, lettuce, radish, peas, potatoes, greens, broccoli, onions, and carrots.
• The April 15 to June 1 window shifts to warm-season flowers, early tomatoes, cucumbers, melons, corn, squash, beans, okra, late tomatoes, pumpkins, peppers, and eggplant.
• June 1 to July 1 is a succession planting window for warm-season crops and cover crops.
• August 15 to September 15 brings spinach, lettuce, beets, radish, greens, and broccoli back for fall crops.

Planning notes

• Keep early spring beds easy to clear because the source marks peas out by June 15 and potatoes or onions out by July 1.
• Use April 15 to June 1 for tomatoes, cucumbers, melons, corn, squash, beans, okra, peppers, and eggplant, then plan warm-season succession plantings from June 1 to July 1.
• Reset open beds from August 15 to September 15 for spinach, lettuce, beets, radish, greens, and broccoli that the source marks as crops out by December 1.
• Use September 15 to November 1 for over-wintered crops, flowers, garlic planning, and cover crops instead of trying to force another tender summer crop.

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.

• 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
• Sugar Snap Pea Vegetable · Cool · 62 days
• Waltham 29 Broccoli Vegetable · Cool · 74 days
• Danvers 126 Carrot Vegetable · Shoulder · 70 days
• Roma Tomato Vegetable · Warm · 76 days
• Marketmore 76 Cucumber Vegetable · Warm · 58 days
• Sugar Baby Watermelon Vegetable · Warm · 80 days
• Golden Bantam Sweet Corn Vegetable · Warm · 80 days
• Waltham Butternut Squash Vegetable · Warm · 95 days
• Provider Bush Bean Vegetable · Warm · 50 days
• Clemson Spineless Okra Vegetable · Warm · 56 days
• California Wonder Pepper Vegetable · Warm · 72 days
• Black Beauty Eggplant Vegetable · Warm · 80 days
• Winter Rye Cover Crop Cover Crop · Cool · 180 days

Related regional guides

• Eastern North Carolina Planting Calendar NC State Extension guide for Eastern North Carolina planting dates, coastal timing shifts, frost and heat stress, transplants, and season extension.
• Western North Carolina Planting Calendar NC State Extension guide for Western North Carolina climate stress, cool spring and fall crops, warm summer crops, transplants, and season extension.

Source: NC State Extension estimated planting dates for the NC Piedmont