Colorado Vegetable Planting Calendar

Choose your Colorado USDA hardiness zone to see weekly garden tasks and a full-season vegetable planting schedule adjusted for a shorter, elevation-sensitive growing season.

Find Your City View Planting Schedules

USDA Zones 3–7Select the Colorado zone shown for your location on the map

Elevation MattersHigher gardens generally have later frosts and shorter seasons

Cool-Season StrengthColorado conditions favor hardy spring and fall vegetables

Colorado city calendars

Find Your Local Planting Calendar

Choose a city for locally adjusted frost dates and planting windows.

Colorado planting windows

Choose Your USDA Planting Zone

Select Zone 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 to update both this week’s tasks and the complete Colorado planting schedule.

Zone 3 Planting Schedule

Start indoorsDirect sowTransplant/plant

Crop names remain visible while you swipe horizontally. The calendar opens at the current week.

Planting periods are based on Colorado State University Extension guidance for hardy, semi-hardy, tender, and very tender vegetables. Dates are estimates: use your local average frost dates, soil temperature, elevation, and current forecast before planting.