Regional guide

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.

Climate signals

• The source is the Travis County Vegetable Garden Planting Guide from Texas A&M AgriLife Extension, dated January 2025.
• The guide names Daphne Richards as Travis County Extension Agent - Horticulture and says it was compiled by Patty G Leander, Master Gardener Vegetable Specialist.
• The one-page guide uses January through December columns with Ideal planting time and Marginal planting time labels.
• The guide says to Plant seed unless otherwise noted and marks rows that use seeds, transplants, crowns, cloves, seed potatoes, or slips.
• It gives 10-year average frost dates by weather station and says to adjust planting dates as needed.

Planning notes

• Use this as a Travis County station-based guide, not an all-Texas calendar or a replacement for checking the nearest freeze station.
• Camp Mabry is listed with a Feb 20 last frost and Dec 1 first frost; Austin-Bergstrom is listed with a Mar 5 last frost and Nov 13 first frost.
• Austin Great Hills is listed with a Feb 25 last frost and Nov 27 first frost.
• Seed, transplant, and crown wording matters: artichoke has crown and transplant markers, asparagus is a crowns row, and many brassicas are transplant rows.
• Source rows include Artichoke, Asparagus, Beans, fava, Beans, bush, pole and lima, Beets, Broccoli, and Brussels sprouts.
• Source rows include Cabbage, Carrots, Cauliflower, Collards, Corn, Cucumber, and Eggplant.
• Source rows include Kale, Kohlrabi, Leeks, Lettuce, Melons, cantaloupe and honeydew, Mustard, and Okra.
• Source rows include Onions, green, Peas, English, snap and snow, Pepper, Pumpkin, Radish, Spinach, Squash, winter, Swiss chard, Tomato, Turnip, and Watermelon.
• Garlic, Irish potato, sweet potato, southern pea, cool-season greens, warm-season greens, and summer squash are source rows without priority links.
• Use these priority catalog links as crop-row examples, not 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.

• Green Globe Artichoke Vegetable · Warm · 120 days
• 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
• 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
• American Flag Leek Vegetable · Cool · 120 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
• Evergreen Bunching Onion Vegetable · Shoulder · 65 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
• 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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• 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.

Source: Texas A&M AgriLife Travis County Vegetable Garden Planting Guide