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When to plant / Ohio

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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.

Source: Ohio State University Extension, Planning for the Garden, excerpted from OSU Extension Bulletin 287, Home Vegetable Gardening, retrieved 2026-10-10.

How this page reads that source: Table 2 sets plants May 15. Footnote: Or after danger of frost in passed.

Central

  • May 15 (May 15–May 15).

Days to maturity from setting plants, Table 2, except where the quote cites Table 1. Days to harvest: 80-90.

City frost pages in Ohio are listed on Ohio.