Alabama vegetable calendar

When to plant vegetables in Alabama

Choose a crop, then use the regional calendar model that matches where you garden.

Planning method

Regional calendar first, weather second

Every crop guide keeps the planting material and the condition that can make a calendar date unsafe. The goal is a decision, not false precision.

Alabama crop guides

Use transplants or direct seed

Use transplants or direct seed

Direct sow seed

Collard greens

Direct seed or transplant

Direct sow or use a young transplant

Plant individual cloves

Direct seed or transplant

Okra

Direct sow or transplant carefully

Choose sets, seeds or transplants deliberately

Plant seed potatoes

Direct sow or transplant young plants

Strawberries

Use the state-recommended planting system

Sweet potatoes

Plant slips into warm soil

Set hardened transplants

Direct sow or transplant with intact roots