The whole year
January
🌱 Onions and leeks (start indoors, late month)
✔ Plan beds and order seeds; Prune dormant fruit trees and roses on dry days
February
🌱 Peas, direct, once the soil is workable, Broccoli, cabbage, lettuce (start indoors)
✔ Plant bare-root fruit trees and berries; Start a soil test
March
🌱 Peas, Spinach, Lettuce, Radishes, Onion sets, Kale and chard, Tomatoes and peppers (start indoors)
✔ Set out cabbage and broccoli starts; Seed potatoes late in the month
April
🌱 Carrots, Beets, Chard, Lettuce, Radishes, Potatoes, Leeks
✔ Transplant brassicas; Harden off tomato and pepper starts
May
🌱 Beans, Squash and zucchini, Cucumbers, Corn, Basil
✔ Plant out tomatoes and peppers once nights stay above 50°F (often mid-May)
June
🌱 Beans (another round), Squash, Cucumbers, Carrots, Beets
✔ Mulch and start deep, less frequent watering
July
🌱 Kale, Chard, Carrots and beets for fall, Lettuce (shade it)
✔ Start broccoli and cabbage for fall and winter
August
🌱 Spinach, Lettuce, Radishes, Overwintering onions (late month)
✔ Set out fall and winter brassica starts
September
🌱 Spinach, Lettuce and salad greens, Radishes, Cover crops (crimson clover, fava, rye)
✔ Save seed, clear spent summer crops
October
🌱 Garlic, Shallots, Fava beans, Cover crops
✔ Plant spring bulbs; Mulch bare beds with leaves
November
🌱 Garlic (early in the month), Fava beans, Shallots
✔ Plant spring bulbs if you missed October; Mulch, protect tender plants from frost
December
✔ Harvest kale, leeks and winter greens; Order seed catalogs and plan; Rest