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My Planting Calendar Journal is the companion blog to My Planting Calendar, a free tool that turns your ZIP code, state, hardiness zone or your own frost dates into a planting schedule for vegetables and herbs.

What you will find here

Short, practical posts on the questions that decide when and how to plant: how to use frost dates, when to start seeds indoors, how to test and understand your soil, and how to protect plants from a late cold night.

How the information is put together

The posts give general guidance drawn from public gardening references, including US Cooperative Extension publications, and from average frost data published by public agencies. Averages are a starting point, not a promise. Your local weather, microclimate and the specific variety you grow can move the real dates, so please check the advice against your own conditions and your seed packet.

Corrections and questions

If something looks wrong for your area, tell us. See the Contact page. The longer guides and the planting calendar itself live on myplantingcalendar.com.

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