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Regional guide
Texas Fall Vegetable Garden
A Texas fall vegetable guide for five AgriLife gardening regions, fall planting dates, transplants, and frost-tolerance grouping.
Regional timing
Current regional planting plan
A Texas fall vegetable guide for five AgriLife gardening regions, fall planting dates, transplants, and frost-tolerance grouping.
Source-backed timing
Texas A&M AgriLife fall vegetable gardening guide
Texas Fall
253 frost-free days
Mar 5 last frost
spring release
Nov 13 first frost
fall limit
- 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.
- Catalog priority
- 21 priority crops 21 catalog examples
- Climate checks
- 4 climate signals 5 planning notes
- Timing basis
- Using Travis County dates Mar 5 to Nov 13
Provider Bush Bean, Detroit Dark Red Beet, Waltham 29 Broccoli, Golden Acre Cabbage
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.
Calendar
Convert regional timing into dated sowing, transplant, and harvest jobs.
Frost dates
Keep hardiness zone context separate from local first and last frost dates.
All regions
Compare this guide with the broader regional atlas.
Texas Home Garden
Texas A&M AgriLife frost-relative home vegetable guide for spring/fall timing, transplant care, seed depth, watering, mulch, and pests.
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.