Garden
Extension guide →Zone 7b running into 8a, on creek bottomland that drains unevenly and holds a little more frost-free time than the ridges above it. The whole year hangs off two dates: the last spring frost around March 20 and the first fall frost around November 15.
🌱This month
❄️Next frost date
🪵Ground · Cardiff
🌧️Rain · This month
What to do now
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Cold air is heavier than warm air and runs downhill at night, so it pools in the low ground along the creek. That is why a bottomland garden can take a frost on a night the ridge above it escapes, even though the same bottoms hold moisture and warmth better through the day. Plant the tender things on the higher edge of the plot if you have the choice.
The planting year
Twelve months, one line eachDates and spacing
Spacing, sowing depth, and days to maturity for every vegetable grown in this state are published by the Alabama Cooperative Extension System and kept current. Rather than copy a table that goes stale, this page points at theirs.
Planting guide for home gardening in Alabama, and the month by month Alabama gardener's calendar.
Where this comes from Planting timing follows the Alabama Cooperative Extension System planting guide for Central Alabama. Frost dates are the ones this site already keeps in its season calendar, around March 20 and around November 15, and they are averages rather than deadlines. Ground condition and rain totals come from the weather station in Cardiff. The packet photograph is somebody else's work, usually a United States Department of Agriculture picture in the public domain, and it is credited to the photographer who took it. A crop this site has no photograph of does not get a packet.