Waco Garden Calendar: April

 

What to plant in April:  

April is a BIG month for planting.   There is a LOT of things that can be planted this month, and not much left to plant in your veggie garden by May. 

I originally got this info from a book called Month-to-Month Gardening in Texas, but have now updated it with the Aggie Spring Planting Guide, which I assume is updated for more current seasonal weather conditions due to climate change.   A few of the pics no longer match but I'm a bit lazy to change it.  

This is the last month this Spring to plant the items in bold.    The rest you have time to plant later if you want to.

DIRECT SEED

Cantaloups (May 1)

Beans, Bush (April 15)

Beans, Lima (April 15)

Corn (May 1)

Cucumber (May 1)

Eggplant (May 1)

Peas, southern

Sweet Potato (slips)

Pumpkin (April 20)

Radish (May 1)

Squash, summer (May 1)

Watermelon  (May 1)

TRANSPLANT

Pepper (May 1)

Tomatoes (April 10)

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I found the photos for my mosaic on Flickr, and the photographers were nice enough to offer up for use through Creative Commons (click on the links to see the photos larger).  Yes, the Sountern Peas (ie cowpeas) in that picture are blighted (that was just a hard one to find, so I took what I could get.) 

PHOTO CREDITS:  
1. Cantaloupes, 2. Collards*, 3. Corn, 4. Cucumber, 5. Cushaw (and Pumpkins) 6. Eggplant, 7. Melons (honeydew), 8. Lima Beans, 9. Luffa, 10. Malabar Spinach, 11. Okra, 12. Peppers, 13. Pumpkin., 14. Snapbeans (19), 15. Southern Peas, 16. Summer Squash, 17. Sweet Potatoes, 18. Swiss Chard*, 19. Tomato 20. Watermelon

*Aggie Guide now suggests an earlier plant by date, so these are no longer listed to plant this month.