Zones 5-6 Planting Schedule
When to Plant Vegetables For Zones 5-6
Each USDA planting zone has its own schedule for sowing seeds. If you're new to vegetable gardening, you'll want to know that there is a right time to sow each variety of vegetable seed. By following our zone chart for both cool and warm season vegetables, you'll be sure to sow your seeds in the correct window of time, enabling optimum sprouting and yield. And don't forget, the seeds you pick are also of the greatest importance. Even if you are an old hand in the vegetable garden, we hope that our USDA zone planting chart will be a useful tool for organizing your spring and summer vegetable planting.
Not sure what your USDA Zone is? Use our USDA hardiness zone finder.
A Garden Planting Chart | |||||||
Crop | Days to Maturity | Spring Planting Dates | Fall Planting Dates | Seed/Plants 100 ft. |
Distance Between Rows | Distance Between Plants | Depth to Plant |
Asparagus | 2nd season | Apr 5 - 25 | 50 roots | 3 to 5 ft. | 1½ to 2 ft. | 6 in. | |
Bean, bush | 50-60 | Apr 25 - May 30 | July 25-Aug 5 | ½ lb. | 3 ft. | 2 to 4 in. | 1-1½ in. |
Bean, pole | 65-75 | May 10 - 20 | ½ lb. | 3 ft. | 6 to 12 in. | 1-1½ in. | |
Bean, lima | 65-75 | May 10 -25 | 1 lb. | 2 to 2½ ft. | 3 to 4 in. | 1-1½ in. | |
Beet | 55-65 | Apr 1 - 15 |
Aug 1 - Sept 25 |
1 oz. | 2 to 2½ ft. | 2 in. | 1 in. |
Broccoli | 60-80 | Mar 25 - Apr 5 |
Sept. 25 - 30 |
100 plants | 2½ ft. | 14 to 18 in. | - |
Cabbage | 65-80 | Apr 1 - 20 |
Sept 20 -30 | 100 plants | 2½ ft. | 12 in. | - |
Cantaloupe |
80-90 | May 10 - 20 |
1 oz. | 4 to 6 ft. | 3½ to 4 ft. | 1½ in |
|
Carrot | 70-80 | Mar 25 - Apr 10 |
Sept 20 -30 |
½ oz. | 2 ft. | 2 to 3 in. | ½ in. |
Cauliflower | 55-60 | Apr 1 - 20 |
Sept 20 - 30 |
100 plants | 3 ft. | 12 to 18 in. | - |
Collard | 55-70 | Mar 20 - Apr 10 |
½ oz. | 2½ ft. | 8 to 16 in. | ½ in. | |
Corn | 80-100 | May 1 - July 20 |
¼ lb. | 3 to 3½ ft. | 12 to 18 in. | 2 in. | |
Cucumber | 60-65 | May 10 - 30 |
1 oz. | 3½ to 5 ft. | 3 to 4 ft. | 1½ in. | |
Eggplant | 75-90 | May 15 - 25 |
50 plants | 3 ft. | 2½ to 3 ft. | - | |
Kale | 50-70 | Mar 25 - Apr 5 |
½ oz. | 3 ft. | 10 in. | ½ in. | |
Kohlrabi | 50-70 |
Apr 1 - 15 |
Sept 20 - 25 |
½ oz. | 3 ft. | 10 in. | ½ in. |
Lettuce | 60-85 | Apr 1 - May 15 |
Sept 1 - 15 | ½ oz. | 2 to 2½ ft. | 10 to 12 in. | ½ in. |
Mustard | 40-50 | Mar 25 - May 1 |
Aug 1 - 30 |
½ oz. | 2 ft. | 1 in. | ½ in. |
Okra | 55-60 | May 10 - 25 |
1 oz. | 3 to 3½ ft. | 6 in. | 1 in. | |
Onion (mature) | 100-120 | Mar 25 - Apr 15 |
Sept. 1-Dec. 31 | 300 plants or ½ gal. sets | 1 to 2 ft. | 3 to 4 in. | ¾ in. |
Peas, garden | 60-80 | Mar 25 - Apr 10 |
1 lb. | 2½ ft. | 1 in. | 1½-2 in. | |
Peas, southern | 60-70 | May 1 - 15 |
- | ½ lb. | 3 ft. | 4 to 6 in. | 1½-2 in. |
Pepper | 65-80 | May 15 - 30 |
- | 50 plants | 2½ ft. | 1½ to 2 ft. | - |
Potato, Irish | 70-90 | Apr 1 - 15 |
1 peck | 2½ to 3 ft. | 10 to 14 in. | 5 in. | |
Potato, sweet | 90-150 | May 15-June 5 | - | 100 plants | 3½ ft. | 12 in. | - |
Radish | 25-30 | Mar 25 - May 1 |
Aug 1- 20 |
1 oz. | 1½ ft. | 1 in. | ½ in. |
Spinach | 40-45 | Apr 1 - 20 | Aug 10 - Sept 20 |
1 oz. | 1½ to 2 ft. | 1 to 2 in. | ¾ in. |
Squash, bush | 50-55 | May 15 - 30 |
1 oz. | 3 to 4 ft. | 2 ft. | 1½-2 in. | |
squash, winter | 85-90 | May 15 - 30 |
- | ½ oz. | 5 ft. | 3 ft. | 1½-2 in. |
Tomato | 70-85 | May 15 - 30 |
50 plants | 3 to 4 ft. | 2½ to 3 ft. | - | |
Turnip | 45-65 | Mar 25 - May 1 |
Aug 5 - Sept 20 | ½ oz. | 1 to 2 ft. | 1 to 2 in. | ½ in. |
Watermelon | 80-90 | May 10 - 20 |
1 oz. | 10 ft. | 8 to 10 ft. | 1½ in. | |
Note: Planting dates in this chart are approximate for North Missouri. Southern plantings should vary around two weeks earlier in the spring and later in the fall and plantings may have to be delayed due to cold weather.. |
This schedule is a general guide for the zone, please check with your local extension office for precise information for your specific area. Copyright © thevegetablegarden.info 2012.