Regional guide

Rockwall North Central Texas Vegetable Planting Guide

Rockwall County Master Gardeners guide for North Central Texas dates, frost averages, soil-temperature checks, and crop rows.

Climate signals

• The source is the 2024 Rockwall County Master Gardeners Vegetable Planting Guide for North Central Texas.
• The main table lists Spring Planting Dates for North Central Texas and Fall Planting Dates for North Central Texas, plus planting depth, row spacing, crop height, days to maturity, and average season days.
• The guide lists a Last average frost date of March 18 and a First average frost date of November 17.
• The Spring Planting Times for North Central Texas section uses minimum soil temperatures for optimum germination of seed and growth of transplants.
• It warns that planting in soil that is too cool can lead to poor germination, seed rot, diseases, and slow root and top growth of plants.

Planning notes

• Use recommended dates only when soil temperature reaches the listed threshold, measured on three consecutive mornings before the sun warms the soil and maintained 6 to 8 inches deep.
• The guide recommends a kitchen probe thermometer as an easy way to check soil temperature.
• Vegetables from Seed with Soil Temperature groups include Cabbage, Carrots, Onions, Potatoes, Beets, Leeks, Peas, Chinese Cabbage, Spinach, Swiss Chard, Collards, Turnips, Lettuce, Parsley, and Radish.
• Vegetables from Seed groups also include Lima Beans, Snap Beans, Cucumbers, Sweet Corn, Mustard, Squash, Watermelon, Black-eyed Peas, Cantaloupe, Okra, and Sweet Potatoes.
• Vegetables from Transplant with Soil Temperature groups include Onions, Broccoli, Kohlrabi, Cabbage, Chinese Cabbage, Tomatoes, Peppers, and Eggplant.
• The row table includes Asparagus, Beans, Snap Bush, Beans, Snap Pole, Beans, Lima Bush, Beans, Lima Pole, Beets, Broccoli, Brussel Sprouts, Cabbage, and Cabbage,Chinese.
• The row table includes Cantaloupe, Carrot, Cauliflower, Chard, Swiss, Cilantro, Collard (Kale), Corn (Sweet), Cucumber, Eggplant, Garlic, Kohlrabi, Lettuce, Mustard, Okra, Onion (Plants), and Onion (Seed).
• The row table includes Parsley, Peas, English, Peas, Black-eyed, Peppers, Potato, Irish, Potato, Sweet, Pumpkin, Radish, Spinach, Squash, Summer, Squash, Winter, Tomato (Transplant), Tomatio (Transplant), Turnip, Greens, Turnip, Roots, and Watermelon.
• Texas A&M AgriLife Extension is named in the program provider attribution for the guide.
• Asparagus, Chinese cabbage, garlic, onions, English peas, black-eyed peas, Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, summer squash, and the ambiguous Tomatio row are source rows without priority links.
• Use these priority catalog links as crop-row examples, not Rockwall County or Texas A&M 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
• Long Island Improved Brussels Sprouts Vegetable · Cool · 100 days
• Golden Acre Cabbage Vegetable · Cool · 64 days
• Danvers 126 Carrot Vegetable · Shoulder · 70 days
• Snowball Y Cauliflower Vegetable · Cool · 70 days
• Bright Lights Swiss Chard Vegetable · Shoulder · 55 days
• Santo Cilantro Herb · Cool · 50 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
• Lacinato Kale Vegetable · Cool · 60 days
• Early White Vienna Kohlrabi Vegetable · Cool · 55 days
• Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce Vegetable · Cool · 45 days
• Hale's Best Jumbo Melon Vegetable · Warm · 85 days
• Southern Giant Curled Mustard Vegetable · Cool · 45 days
• Clemson Spineless Okra Vegetable · Warm · 56 days
• Italian Flat Leaf Parsley Herb · Shoulder · 75 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
• Waltham Butternut Squash Vegetable · Warm · 95 days
• Roma Tomato Vegetable · Warm · 76 days
• Purple Top White Globe Turnip Vegetable · Cool · 55 days
• Sugar Baby Watermelon Vegetable · Warm · 80 days

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Source: Rockwall County Master Gardeners Vegetable Planting Guide