Regional guide

Ventura County Vegetable Planting Guide

UC ANR Ventura County guide for warm/cool-season vegetable planting dates, repeat rows, transplant rows, bed spacing, and crop examples.

Climate signals

• UC ANR Cooperative Extension Ventura County's Planting Vegetables table is from Home Vegetable Gardening by Dennis R. Pittenger, Extension urban Horticulture Specialist, Riverside, Publication number 21444.
• The table gives Approximate Planting Dates for Ventura County and labels W=warm season and C=cool season.
• Warm-season rows include snap beans Mar - Aug, sweet corn Mar - Jul, cucumbers Apr - Jun, eggplant Apr - May, peppers Apr - May, pumpkins May - Jun, summer and winter squash Apr - Jun, tomatoes Apr - Jul, and watermelons Apr - Jun.
• Cool-season rows include beets and carrots Jan - Sep, broccoli Jun-Jul and Jan - Feb, cabbage Aug - Feb, lettuce Aug - Apr, peas Aug and Dec - Mar, spinach Aug - Mar, and turnips Jan and Aug - Oct.
• Green onions have an All year row, and radish has an All year row for Ventura County.

Planning notes

• Use the Ventura County table for this county instead of a broad statewide planting calendar.
• Footnote (1) marks crops suggested for a small garden or usable in small gardens when compact varieties are grown.
• Footnote (2) says crops can be planted more than once for continuous harvest in a suitable climate.
• Footnote (3) marks Transplants, shoots, or roots used for field planting.
• Footnote (4) says if grown in beds, plant two rows per bed, space beds about 32 - 40 inches apart, and make the bed tops 18 inches wide.
• The table notes planting distances are standards and many crops can be more closely spaced for intensive production.
• Use these priority catalog links as crop-row examples only, not UC cultivar recommendations.

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
• Tall Utah Celery Vegetable · Cool · 110 days
• Bright Lights Swiss Chard Vegetable · Shoulder · 55 days
• Common Chives Herb · Cool · 80 days
• Golden Bantam Sweet Corn Vegetable · Warm · 80 days
• Marketmore 76 Cucumber Vegetable · Warm · 58 days
• Black Beauty Eggplant Vegetable · Warm · 80 days
• Green Curled Endive Vegetable · Cool · 85 days
• Florence Fennel Herb · Warm · 80 days
• Early White Vienna Kohlrabi Vegetable · Cool · 55 days
• American Flag Leek Vegetable · Cool · 120 days
• Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce Vegetable · Cool · 45 days
• Southern Giant Curled Mustard Vegetable · Cool · 45 days
• Hale's Best Jumbo Melon Vegetable · Warm · 85 days
• Clemson Spineless Okra Vegetable · Warm · 56 days
• Evergreen Bunching Onion Vegetable · Shoulder · 65 days
• Italian Flat Leaf Parsley Herb · Shoulder · 75 days
• Hollow Crown Parsnip Vegetable · Cool · 120 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
• American Purple Top Rutabaga Vegetable · Cool · 90 days
• Bloomsdale Spinach Vegetable · Cool · 42 days
• Waltham Butternut Squash Vegetable · Warm · 95 days
• Delicata Winter Squash Vegetable · Warm · 100 days
• Roma Tomato Vegetable · Warm · 76 days
• Purple Top White Globe Turnip Vegetable · Cool · 55 days
• Sugar Baby Watermelon Vegetable · Warm · 80 days

Related regional guides

• San Luis Obispo County Cool-Season Vegetable Guide UC SLO County guide for three cool-season bands, frost dates, heat and frost cautions, soil-temperature controls, and crop examples.
• Orange County Small-Space Vegetable Garden UC Master Gardeners Orange County small-space guide for containers, sunlight, compacted urban yards, supports, and three-season turnover.
• San Diego County Vegetable Planting Guide UC ANR San Diego County guide for coastal and inland vegetable planting windows across warm/cool seasons and crop-row examples.

Source: UC ANR Cooperative Extension Ventura County Planting Vegetables