Zone 10a monthly plan
October planting calendar for zone 10a
These actions use zone 10a's typical frost dates and each crop's extension-sourced planting window.
- Last spring frost
- January 17
- First fall frost
- January 13
- Exact actions
- 6
This near-frost-free pattern wraps across New Year. The listed first fall frost falls in the following calendar year.
Get dates for your exact ZIP
Zone averages cover wide areas. Your nearest NOAA station gives a more local frost window.
Source-backed actions
Your October checklist
Search a crop or narrow the list by garden action. Dates are shifted from zone 10a's typical frost window.
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Start indoors
3- Celeriac
vegetable
October 25 to November 8SourceCornell University, Home Gardening (Vegetable Growing Guides) - Globe Artichoke
vegetable
September 27 to November 1SourceUtah State University Extension - Wax Begonia
flower
Fall planting
3- Collards
vegetable
October 14SourceCornell University Home Gardening - Kohlrabi
vegetable
October 21 to November 18SourceIowa State University Extension and Outreach - Lettuce
vegetable
October 14 to November 18SourceUtah State University Extension
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.
- USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map, 2023 by USDA Agricultural Research Service / Oregon State University PRISM Group. the USDA hardiness-zone band.
- U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020 by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. the median spring and fall freeze dates.
Local conditions vary.