Iowa Vegetable Planting Calendar

Choose your Iowa USDA hardiness zone to see weekly garden tasks and a full-season schedule for productive spring, summer, and fall vegetable gardens.

Choose Your Zone View Planting Schedules

USDA Zones 4–6Select the Iowa zone shown for your location on the map

Elevation Changes TimingNorthern Iowa generally plants about one week later than central Iowa; southern Iowa about one week earlier

Spring and Fall GardensCool-season crops can be grown on both sides of summer

Iowa planting windows

Choose Your USDA Planting Zone

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

Zone 4 Planting Schedule

Start indoorsDirect sowTransplant/plant

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

Reference: Iowa State University Extension Vegetable Planting and Harvesting Times. Central Iowa provides the baseline; southern Iowa may plant about one week earlier and northern Iowa about one week later.