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Zone 3a monthly plan

April planting calendar for zone 3a

These actions use zone 3a's typical frost dates and each crop's extension-sourced planting window.

Last spring frost
May 29
First fall frost
September 5
Exact actions
37

Get dates for your exact ZIP

Zone averages cover wide areas. Your nearest NOAA station gives a more local frost window.

Exact April dates

Planting jobs

Your April checklist

Search a crop or narrow the list by garden action. Dates are shifted from zone 3a's typical frost window.

37 matching actions, with 7 shown first

Start indoors

35
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Transplant outdoors

1
  • Kale

    vegetable

    April 24 to May 1
    0 sources

    Direct sow

    1
    • Kale

      vegetable

      April 24 to May 1
      0 sources

      How this checklist is sourced

      USDA defines the hardiness zone, NOAA normals provide the typical frost anchors, and each crop's extension source supplies the planting offset. Broad season-only notes are kept on plant profiles because they do not change from one zone page to another.

      Local conditions vary.