Free Printable Planting Calendar — Build Yours by Zone
Pick your crops, get a personalized month-by-month sow, transplant, and harvest chart for your USDA zone — then print it. No signup, no downloads.
Quick answer · Updated July 2026
A planting calendar tells you, month by month, when to start each crop indoors, sow it outside, transplant it, and harvest it — all keyed to your zone's frost dates. Enter your ZIP above or pick your zone below, check off your crops, and print the chart. Your selection saves automatically for next time.
How it works
1
Find your zone
Enter your ZIP code above, or pick your USDA zone from the grid below if you already know it.
2
Check off your crops
Tomatoes, lettuce, basil, zinnias — pick from every vegetable, herb, fruit, and flower in our planting engine.
3
Print your chart
One click prints just the calendar — a clean Jan–Dec chart of sow, transplant, and harvest months for your garden.
Pick your zone to start building
Every calendar is computed from your zone's average frost window — the dates below are the guardrails the chart is built around.
Zone 1 calendar →
Last frost late may – mid june · first frost late july – mid august
Zone 2 calendar →
Last frost late may – early june · first frost mid august – early september
Zone 3 calendar →
Last frost mid may – early june · first frost early september – early october
Zone 4 calendar →
Last frost early – mid may · first frost mid september – mid october
Zone 5 calendar →
Last frost late april – early may · first frost early – mid october
Zone 6 calendar →
Last frost mid april – early may · first frost mid october – early november
Zone 7 calendar →
Last frost late march – mid april · first frost mid october – mid november
Zone 8 calendar →
Last frost late february – late march · first frost mid november – mid december
Zone 9 calendar →
Last frost late january – late february · first frost early december – early january
Zone 10 calendar →
Frost-free — the garden runs year-round.
Zone 11 calendar →
Frost-free — the garden runs year-round.
Zone 12 calendar →
Frost-free — the garden runs year-round.
Zone 13 calendar →
Frost-free — the garden runs year-round.
What your calendar shows
Each crop gets a row across all twelve months, marked with four activities: sow indoors (start seeds inside, ahead of the season), sow outdoors (direct-seed into garden soil), transplant (move seedlings out after frost danger), and harvest. The months come from the same frost-date engine that powers our zone guides — not generic seed-packet ranges.
Planning a second season? Pair your calendar with the fall planting dates table for last-safe sowing math, and the seed-starting guide for getting transplants off to a strong start.
Planting calendar questions
How do I make a planting calendar for my zone?＋
Open your zone’s builder page (or enter your ZIP code and we’ll route you there), check off the crops you grow, and the chart fills in month by month — when to sow indoors, sow outdoors, transplant, and harvest each crop in your zone. Hit "Print my calendar" and only the chart prints, ready for the fridge or the potting bench.
What USDA zone am I in?＋
Enter your 5-digit ZIP code in the finder above and we’ll look up your USDA hardiness zone instantly. Zones run from 1 (coldest — interior Alaska) to 13 (tropical — Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico), and most of the continental US falls between Zones 3 and 10.
Is this planting calendar really free and printable?＋
Yes — no signup, no download, no watermark. Pick your crops and print straight from the browser. Your crop selection is saved on your device, so the calendar is waiting for you next visit.
How accurate are the planting dates?＋
The chart is built from each zone’s average last and first frost dates — the same frost-driven engine behind our monthly zone guides. Averages are a starting point: your microclimate can shift timing a week or two either way, so watch your local forecast around the frost window.
What do sow indoors, sow outdoors, and transplant mean?＋
Sow indoors (SI) means starting seeds inside under lights or on a windowsill, weeks before it’s safe outside. Sow outdoors (S) means planting seeds directly in garden soil. Transplant (T) is moving those indoor-started seedlings into the garden once frost danger has passed. Harvest (H) marks the months you’ll actually be picking.
Do frost-free zones 10–13 need a planting calendar?＋
Absolutely — the calendar just flips. With no frost, timing is driven by heat and rainfall instead: most temperate vegetables grow through the cooler October–April window, while midsummer is the season to rest beds or lean on heat lovers like okra and sweet potatoes. The zone builders reflect that year-round rhythm.