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The Home Growing Wild planting calendar.

A polished two-page guide with crop-by-crop planting windows, planting methods, and seasonal notes for Dallas vegetable, herb, and flower gardens.

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Fresh tomatoes harvested from a Dallas kitchen garden

Grow with the season

Dallas gives us more than one growing season.

The trick is not planting everything in spring. Cool-season crops love the gentler edges of the year, heat lovers take over in late spring, and fall brings a second chance for many favorites.

This calendar uses flexible planting windows because frost dates, heat, rainfall, and the conditions in your own yard can shift from year to year.

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Free to download, print, and tuck into your garden journal.

Use it as a starting point, then add notes about what works in your own beds.

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Two generous growing seasons

Spring and fall in the Dallas garden.

Page one

Spring Garden

JanuaryStart tomato and pepper seeds indoors. Direct-sow peas, spinach, carrots, radishes, cilantro, dill, and hardy greens during mild stretches.

FebruaryPlant potatoes and onion transplants. Set out broccoli, cabbage, kale, chard, and lettuce; sow beets, carrots, radishes, and peas.

MarchAfter frost danger eases, begin tomatoes, beans, cucumbers, squash, basil, and warm-season flowers.

AprilPlant tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, beans, cucumbers, squash, melons, basil, zinnias, cosmos, and sunflowers.

MayAdd okra, southern peas, sweet potatoes, heat-loving herbs, and another round of flowers. Mulch before summer settles in.

JuneLean on okra, southern peas, basil, sweet potatoes, and resilient flowers. Harvest often, water deeply, and give tender crops afternoon shade.

Page two

Fall Garden

JulyStart broccoli, cabbage, kale, and cauliflower seeds in a protected spot. Set out fall tomato transplants with shade and steady water.

AugustSow a fall round of beans, cucumbers, and squash early in the month. Begin carrots and beets late as temperatures start to soften.

SeptemberPlant broccoli-family transplants and sow carrots, beets, radishes, lettuce, spinach, cilantro, dill, and cool-season flowers.

OctoberSow lettuce, spinach, arugula, radishes, carrots, peas, cilantro, and dill. Plant garlic as the weather cools.

NovemberContinue garlic and hardy greens. Plant pansies, violas, calendula, and snapdragons for cool-season color and pollinators.

DecemberHarvest greens, protect tender plants during freezes, refresh mulch, clean tools, and sketch next season while the garden slows down.

A gardener’s note: Treat these as friendly windows, not hard deadlines. Check the forecast, wait for workable soil, and adjust for the sun, shelter, and warmth of your particular garden. This original calendar is educational and is not a substitute for site-specific advice.

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