The free sowing calendar · zones 5a–9b
Your whole growing year, planned to the week.
Pick your zone. We turn your frost dates into a living calendar of exactly what to start, transplant, and sow — free, no signup needed.
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Pick your zone
Every date is counted from your own frost dates.
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See your year
A rolling twelve months of sowing, transplanting, and succession.
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Grow your notes
Field notes and custom crops, saved to your free account.
Kitchen display
A living almanac for the kitchen counter.
Leave it open on a spare tablet — it quietly counts down to your next planting.
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DAYS · KALE
The almanacDaily reads coming soon
JUL 2
Why July is secretly fall-planting month
The fall garden is won in the heat of summer — here's what to start this week.
JUL 1
Reading your squash leaves like a book
Wilt at noon, powder by August — what the leaves are telling you and when to act.
JUN 30
The case for letting cilantro bolt
Stop fighting it: bolted cilantro is a coriander harvest and next spring's free seedlings.
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The Sunday sowing list
Your zone's tasks for the week ahead, in your inbox every Sunday morning.