Maine Vegetable Planting Calendar

Choose your Maine 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 3–6Select the Maine zone shown for your location on the map

Elevation Changes TimingNorthern and inland Maine gardens warm later than central and coastal gardens

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

Plan around local weather

Maine City Planting Calendars

Choose the nearest city calendar, then adjust for coastal influence, elevation, inland cold pockets, and current weather.

AuburnAndroscoggin County · USDA Zones 5bLast frost May 15 · First frost September 30 AugustaKennebec County · USDA Zones 5bLast frost May 20 · First frost September 25 BangorPenobscot County · USDA Zones 5a–5bLast frost May 20 · First frost September 25 BiddefordYork County · USDA Zones 6aLast frost May 10 · First frost October 10 LewistonAndroscoggin County · USDA Zones 5bLast frost May 15 · First frost September 30 PortlandCumberland County · USDA Zones 6a–6bLast frost May 5 · First frost October 10 SacoYork County · USDA Zones 6aLast frost May 10 · First frost October 10 SanfordYork County · USDA Zones 5b–6aLast frost May 20 · First frost September 30 South PortlandCumberland County · USDA Zones 6a–6bLast frost May 5 · First frost October 10 WestbrookCumberland County · USDA Zones 6aLast frost May 10 · First frost October 5

Maine planting windows

Choose Your USDA Planting Zone

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

Reference: University of Maine Cooperative Extension Planting Chart for the Home Vegetable Garden and Keep Your Garden Growing guidance. Coastal Maine may plant 10–14 days earlier and northern Maine 10–14 days later.