Garden 2018's vegetable planting calendar, Zone 9b

Zone 9b is NOW.


The holidays are over, and in USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 9b, that means it's time to get started!!

This week's goals are to get ready, because next week is the beginning of the Spring Planting. 


Take a look at the plan:


Here's the year's schedule, as part of my clipboard bullet journal experiment.  I divided it into weeks since all the seed directions say "plant X weeks before/after first/last frost"... and because it makes it easy to update my main weekly to-do chart.

Week	Plant Indoors	Plant Outdoors	Transplant	Other
Jan 1				Remove last dead plants Fertilize beds
2				Sanitize seedling flats Sanitize/find potting soil
3	Thyme creeping Sage Pepper Tomato Tomatillo Ground cherry Snapdragon*	Collards Garlic**		Spring planting begins! *snapdragon won’t germinate without light… leave on top of soil **Spring garlic plantings are only for garlic greens, fall plantings are for bulbs
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Feb 1	Thyme creeping Sage Pepper Tomato Tomatillo Ground cherry Snapdragon**	Collards Garlic Miner’s lettuce Purslane Onion Spinach Arugula		**try freezing some snapdragon seeds a few days this time
2				Raised bed finished by now?
3	Sage Watercress*	Miner’s lettuce Purslane Onion Spinach Arugula Radish Turnip Kale Peas, snow		*try watercress in long planter, heavily watered.  Unknown transplant time to container pond and aquariums.
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Mar 1	Basil	Radish Turnip Kale Peas, snow Chard Mustard Mizuna – lots this year Red malibar spinach		Summer planting begins!
2	Sunflower, very small test batch	Beet	Thyme, creeping	Begin first harvests:  onion
3	Basil Squash	Radish Chard
4		Mustard Mizuna Red malibar spinach	Thyme, creeping Sage	“Last Frost” date
Apr 1		Radish Chard Methi* Beans	Snapdragon	Begin first harvests:  arugula, spinach, peppermint *Methi:  soak overnight first
2		Calendula Cilantro Sunflower Nasturtium	Sage Basil Sunflower Squash	Begin first harvests:  mustard, mizuna, red malibar spinach
3		Cucumber Squash Beans Mizuna	Tomato Ground cherry Snapdragon	Begin first harvests:  radish, beet, chard Tomatoes, ground cherries, tomatillos transplanted after April 20th, as is tradition.
4		Radish Calendula Cilantro Pea, snow Sunflower Nasturtium Methi*	Pepper Tomato Basil Squash	Begin first harvests:  turnip
May 1		Basil Sunflower Cucumber Beans		Begin harvests:  methi (dehydrate some)
2		Radish Squash		Begin harvests:  kale, snow pea, garlic
3		Pea, snow Basil Sunflower Beans		Begin harvests:  collards, cilantro
4		Radish Methi*		Begin harvests:  miner’s lettuce, purslane, calendula, nasturtium, last fall’s garlic bulbs
Jun 1		Squash Basil Sunflower		Begin first harvests:  squash, beans
2		Radish Pea, snow		Begin harvests:  cucumber
3				Begin harvests:  basil, sunflower
4		Radish Squash Methi*
Jul 1		Pea, snow		Begin harvests:  tomato, tomatillo, ground cherry, pepper
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Aug 1
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Sept 1
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3		Radish Arugula Onion Kale Collards Miner’s lettuce Purslane Methi*		Fall/Winter planting begins!
4		Mustard Mizuna – lots this year
Oct 1		Radish Arugula Onion Kale Collards Miner’s lettuce Purslane Garlic, for summer bulbs Beet Chard
2		Mustard Mizuna
3		Radish Arugula Onion Kale Collards Beet Chard
4		Mustard Mizuna
Nov 1		Radish Arugula Onion		Be ready with sheets for covering citrus trees during frost.
2		Mizuna		"First Frost” date (often does not happen until Dec/Jan though!)
3		Radish
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Dec 1				Order next year’s seeds this month… maybe Santa sticks them in my stocking!  :)
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What is your planting zone?