Garden Resources | Southern Garden Girls

Built for North Central Texas: these planning tools use Zone 8b / North Central Texas planting windows and are designed to work alongside the monthly planting guides.

North Central Texas Garden Planner

This planner combines planting windows, planting depth, row spacing, maturity ranges, and a month-by-month quick view for North Central Texas.

Download the Zone 8b Garden Planner

12-Month Planting Calendar

January through December planting guidance for the current North Central Texas garden.

Open the monthly planting calendar →

Planting & Maturity Workbook

Spring and fall planting windows, approximate days to maturity, spacing, planting depth, and a monthly quick view.

Download workbook →

Garden Journal

A redesigned 15-page printable journal with a garden snapshot, quick-reference index, 20 plant logs, harvest log, and season wrap-up.

Download the Garden Journal →

Indoor Vegetable Gardening

The original indoor-growing article has been updated for modern LED grow lights, realistic crop choices, watering, airflow, and seedling care.

Read the guide →

Printable Garden Journal

The printable Garden Journal includes a garden snapshot, quick-reference page, plant records for up to 20 crops, a harvest log, and a season wrap-up so you can track the whole growing season in one place.

Download the Printable Garden Journal

More practical guides

Seed StartingPlan transplants around the local planting calendar. Watering in Texas HeatUse soil moisture instead of a rigid watering schedule. Pollinator GardeningSupport the insects the vegetable garden depends on. Browse the Garden JournalSee all growing guides in one place.

Current planting source: Rockwall County Master Gardeners / Texas A&M AgriLife Extension North Central Texas Vegetable Planting Guide. Additional fall-season context comes from Texas A&M AgriLife’s Fall Vegetable Gardening Guide for Texas.