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Planting calendar / Akron, OH

Planting calendar for Akron, OH

Station AKRON FULTON INTL AP, OH US (USW00014813) is 4.2 miles away. Median last 32°F 04/24, median first 32°F 10/28. Crop dates below come from Ohio State University Extension. Where the guide uses weeks around a frost date, those weeks are applied to the median 32°F dates because the guide does not name a 10/50/90 level.

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Crops in the cited guide

SowBeans, bush snapCentralMay 15 to August 1 · August 150-60 days to harvestSowBeetsCentralApril 15 to July 1550-70 days to harvestSowCollardsCentralApril 1 to August 15 · August 1-1565 days to harvestSowCorn, SweetCentralMay 1 to July 164-90 days to harvestSowCucumberCentralMay 10 to June 150-70 days to harvestSowKaleCentralApril 1 to August 1 · August 1-1550-70 days to harvestSowLettuce, leafCentralApril 1 to August 140-50 days to harvestSowOkraCentralMay 165 days to harvestSowPeasCentralApril 150-60 days to harvestSowPotatoes, earlyCentralApril 1 · May 1590-110 days to harvestSowPumpkinCentralMay 2090-110 days to harvestSowRadishCentralApril 1 to August 1 · August 1-1525-35 days to harvestSowSpinachCentralApril 1 · Sept 140-50 days to harvestSowSquash BushCentralMay 1 to June 150-65 days to harvestSowSquash WinterCentralJune 1 to June 1560-110 days to harvestSowTurnipsCentralApril 1 to June 1 · Aug 15 · August 1-1550-60 days to harvestSowWatermelonCentralMay 20110-130 days to harvestSowChard, SwissCentralApril 1 to April 1050-60 days to harvestSowBroccoliCentralApril 180 days to harvestSowCabbageCentralApril 1 · July 15early 50; late 75-80 days to harvestSowCauliflowerCentralJuly 15 · July 1100 days to harvestSowEggplantCentralMay 1580-90 days to harvestSowLettuce, headCentralApril 1 · August 160 days to harvestSowTomatoesCentralMay 1550 days to harvestSowPeppersCentralMay 1570 days to harvestSowOnions, WinterCentralSept 1 to October 1SowOnions, seed and setsCentralApril 1110-150 days to harvest

Akron, OH

Zone 6bAverage annual extreme minimum -5°F to 0°F

Median last 32°F is April 24. Median first 32°F is October 28. The 50% growing-season length is 186 days. The green band runs from the median last frost to the median first frost. Thin ticks mark the 10%, 50%, and 90% dates.

Outside the median season Growing seasonTicks: 10%, 50%, and 90%

Ohio. Nearest qualified station: AKRON FULTON INTL AP, OH US (USW00014813), 4.2 miles. Median last 32°F April 24. Median first 32°F October 28. The 50% growing-season length is 186 days.

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32°F probabilities at this station
10%50%90%
Last 32°F on or afterMay 9April 24April 10
First 32°F on or beforeOctober 12October 28November 8

Column order matches the NCEI file: for the last freeze, 10% is the later date and 90% is the earlier date. How to read the probabilities.

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Planting calendar

Windows below are from Ohio State University Extension, Planning for the Garden, excerpted from OSU Extension Bulletin 287, Home Vegetable Gardening, retrieved 2026-10-10. The dates are for a normal season in central Ohio. The same page says spring planting runs about two weeks earlier in southern Ohio and about two weeks later in northern Ohio. Those shifts are a sentence, not a second column, so the dates below stay the central Ohio dates. The PDF says the tables are excerpted from Bulletin 287 by Utzinger, Brooks and Wittmeyer, 1991, now out of print.

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State crop pages: Beans, bush snap · Beets · Collards · Corn, Sweet · Cucumber · Kale · Lettuce, leaf · Okra