Texas gives us more than one real gardening season. This calendar is organized around the planting windows that matter in North Central Texas—not around a generic national seed packet calendar.
JanuaryJanuary is a cool-season month in North Central Texas: onions, garlic, peas, and spinach take the lead while spring planting is still mostly planning.
FebruaryFebruary is one of North Central Texas’s best cool-season planting months, with roots, greens, brassicas, peas, and potatoes all coming into play.
MarchMarch is the handoff month: cool-season crops are still going, while beans, corn, tomatoes, and other warm-season vegetables begin entering their planting windows.
AprilApril is prime warm-season planting time in North Central Texas: beans, cucumbers, squash, tomatoes, peppers, melons, corn, okra, and eggplant are all active choices.
MayMay is less about opening new planting windows and more about finishing warm-season planting, maintaining growth, and keeping water consistent.
JuneJune is mostly a care-and-harvest month, but it also marks the beginning of the fall-tomato transition in North Central Texas.
JulyJuly feels like peak summer, but North Central Texas gardeners are already planting for fall—especially tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, okra, pole beans, and melons.
AugustAugust is one of the busiest fall-garden months in North Central Texas. The trick is knowing which crops truly belong in the heat now—and which cool-season crops should wait.
SeptemberSeptember is the center of the North Central Texas fall garden: brassicas, roots, greens, garlic, peas, beans, and herbs all overlap.
OctoberOctober shifts the garden toward garlic, peas, radishes, turnips, parsley, and established cool-season crops while the most heat-loving vegetables wind down.
NovemberNovember narrows the planting list, but the North Central Texas garden is not finished. Peas, radishes, turnips, and hardy established crops can still carry the season.
DecemberDecember is mostly a harvest, protection, planning, and soil-care month in North Central Texas rather than a major outdoor planting month.
Use this as a starting point. A planting date is not a guarantee. Watch your soil temperature, forecast, first and last freeze patterns, and the maturity time of the variety you are actually planting.
Planting-calendar note: These dates are written for North Central Texas and use Texas A&M AgriLife / Rockwall County Master Gardener planting windows as the baseline. Weather and soil temperature can shift a planting window, so treat the dates as practical targets rather than guarantees.