Regional guide
Texas Fall Vegetable Garden
A Texas fall vegetable guide for five AgriLife gardening regions, fall planting dates, transplants, and frost-tolerance grouping.
Climate signals
- Texas A&M AgriLife separates fall vegetable planting dates into five gardening regions instead of one statewide date.
- Region I starts many fall crops in June, July, and August, while Region V can push beets, carrots, chard, collards, mustard, radish, spinach, turnip, and other cool-season rows as late as December 15.
- The guide maps Texas gardening zones to USDA hardiness ranges from Zone I through Zone V and average minimum temperatures.
- Fall vegetable planning must separate frost-tolerant crops from frost-susceptible crops because the first killing frost defines how long each crop can stay useful.
Planning notes
- Use the regional fall table before planting: snap bush beans start July 15 in Region I, August 1 in Region II, September 1 in Region III, September 10 in Region IV, and October 1 in Region V.
- Use cool-season rows such as beets, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, chard, collards, lettuce, mustard, radish, spinach, and turnip as the main frost-tolerant fall backbone.
- Use tomato, pepper, and eggplant as transplant-focused fall crops; the source lists last optimum transplant dates and says transplants should always be used for fall tomatoes and peppers.
- Water late-summer transplants carefully, keep them moist without saturating the soil, and use afternoon shade while establishing large transplants.
- Treat corn, cucumber, eggplant, pepper, pumpkin, squash, tomato, and other frost-susceptible crops as short-term fall crops that must finish before frost.
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
- Bright Lights Swiss Chard Vegetable · Shoulder · 55 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
- Early White Vienna Kohlrabi Vegetable · Cool · 55 days
- Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce Vegetable · Cool · 45 days
- Southern Giant Curled Mustard Vegetable · Cool · 45 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
Related regional guides
- Texas Home Vegetable Gardening Guide Texas A&M AgriLife frost-relative home vegetable guide for spring/fall timing, transplant care, seed depth, watering, mulch, and pests.
- Travis County Vegetable Planting Guide Texas A&M AgriLife Travis County 2025 planting guide for station frost averages, ideal/marginal timing, and crop-row examples.
- Harris County Vegetable Planting Dates Texas AgriLIFE Harris County chart for seed-unless-noted rows, ideal/marginal timing, freeze averages, and heat-shade cautions.
- 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.
- East Texas Vegetable Planting Guide Henderson County Master Gardeners East Texas guide for spring/fall dates, spacing, harvest days, yields, and variety examples.