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