Early Planters

• Carrots, radishes and other root plants can be planted several weeks before the last frost date. They can be reseeded again in late August to take advantage of cooler fall weather.
  
  

Two Crops

• Leafy plants such as lettuce, cabbage, spinach and kale enjoy a cool growing season and do best planted a week or so before the last frost date. This protects them from the hot summer sun. Like root plants, a second, fall crop is possible.
  
  

Summer Season

• Vegetables that grow on a stem such as peppers, eggplants, tomatoes, and okra should be planted after all danger of a frost is past. Planting them earlier than the recommended date is taking a chance on the weather cooperating. The risk is that all the plants will be lost unless there is prior preparation to see them safely through a late frost.