About How To Grow

Clear, sourced answers to the two questions every gardener asks: what to plant, and when.

How To Grow helps home gardeners get vegetables and herbs in the ground at the right time and keep them growing. The planting calendar works out your dates from your local frost date, and each crop guide covers spacing, depth, timing and the problems you're most likely to meet.

How the guides are written

Planting dates, spacing, seed depths and days to harvest come from university Cooperative Extension services, such as UNH, the University of Georgia, Virginia Tech, Clemson and UF/IFAS. Each guide links the sources it relies on at the bottom of the page so you can check them yourself.

Gardening is local. Your county Extension office knows your soil, pests and weather best, so use these guides as a starting point and adjust for your conditions. If you spot something out of date, please tell us.

What we don't do

• We don't claim to have tested products unless a page says so plainly.
• We don't give advice beyond what's on product labels for fertilizers or pest control. Always follow the label.

Photos

Photos are from photographers on Unsplash, used under the Unsplash License, and each is credited where it appears: Markus Spiske, Dan Gold, Anna Evans, David Clode, Tobias Doering, Lily Bui Thi, Alexander Benesch, Bishwajit Ghose and Jenny Johannessen.

How the site is funded

How To Grow may earn money from advertising and from affiliate links, which pay us a commission if you buy something after clicking them. This never changes our growing advice. See our affiliate disclosure for details.