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When to Plant Garlic: Roots Before Winter, No Shoots
Garlic is the one crop timed off your FIRST frost, not your last. The window is wide enough to root and narrow enough not to sprout.
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Vegetable Planting Timing
When do I plant this where I live?
Almost every planting date published for vegetables is written as an offset from the last spring frost or the first autumn one — start seeds six weeks before, transplant two weeks after, sow the last succession six weeks before. That makes the date useless without the frost date it is measured from, and those differ by six weeks or more across the states. These guides carry the offset and read the frost dates from our own per-state research.
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When to Plant Tomatoes: Frost Date Is Half the Answer
Every tomato planting date is an offset from your last frost — but the soil has to reach 60°F too, and those two do not arrive together.
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When to Start Seeds Indoors: Four to Twelve Weeks
The indoor window is four to twelve weeks depending on the crop — and the cost of starting early is a leggy seedling, not an earlier harvest.
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