Plant library
Know what your plants need
Use structured growing information to match plants to your location, space, soil, and schedule.
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Tomatoes
Warm-season plants with practical planting, spacing, sun, soil, and harvest guidance.
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Peppers
A guide to starting peppers, choosing a warm site, and keeping plants productive through summer.
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Carrots
Practical guidance for sowing carrots directly, preparing loose soil, and timing successive crops.
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Lettuce
Cool-season planting and harvest guidance for crisp lettuce in beds and containers.
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Cucumbers
Learn when to sow cucumbers, how much room vines need, and how to keep harvests steady.
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Beans
Warm-season legumes that fix much of their own nitrogen and start producing pods about two months after sowing.
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Peas
A cool-season crop for early spring and fall, grown up a trellis or as a self-supporting bush type.
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Spinach
A fast cool-season leafy green for spring and fall beds, containers, and repeated small sowings.
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Broccoli
A cool-season brassica grown for its central head and the smaller side shoots that follow it.
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Zucchini
A fast warm-season squash that produces heavily, so one or two plants are usually enough for a household.
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Kale
A hardy leafy green that tolerates frost, improves after cold nights, and keeps producing for months.
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Radishes
One of the fastest crops in the garden, ready in under a month in cool weather.
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Onions
A long-season bulb crop whose size depends on daylight, so the right type for your latitude matters most.
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Garlic
A fall-planted bulb that spends winter rooting and sizes up fast in spring.
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Potatoes
A cool-season staple grown from seed potatoes and hilled up as stems grow.
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Beets
A two-for-one cool crop with sweet roots and edible greens, ready fast in spring and fall.
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Eggplants
A heat-loving nightshade that produces glossy fruit through the hottest part of summer.
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Sweet corn
A block-planted warm-season grass that needs numbers, not a single row, for good pollination.
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Arugula
A peppery cool-season green ready for baby leaves in about three weeks.
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Asparagus
A perennial crop that produces spring spears for 15 or more years once established.
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Brussels sprouts
A long-season brassica that rewards patience with sweet sprouts after autumn frosts.
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Butternut squash
A long warm-season vine whose hard-skinned fruit cures for months of winter storage.
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Cabbage
A cool-season brassica grown for dense heads that keep well in storage.
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Cauliflower
The fussiest common brassica, rewarding steady cool growth with tight white curds.
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Celery
A long, thirsty cool-season crop that needs an early indoor start and constant moisture.
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Leeks
A slow cool-season allium grown for long white stems that sweeten with frost.
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Okra
A heat-loving crop that produces pods daily once summer temperatures climb.
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Parsnips
A slow root crop that sweetens after frost and keeps in the ground into winter.
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Sweet potatoes
A sprawling warm-season vine grown from slips, with roots that cure into sweeter storage.
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Swiss chard
A forgiving leafy green that tolerates both frost and summer heat and harvests for months.