Category: Kentucky Gardening

In 2025, I missed the window when I searched for When to plant cantaloupe in Kentucky. Instead, I bought cantaloupe transplants from my local Amish nursery. Stuck them in the ground, trained them up the trellis, and figured I’d see what happened. What happened was cantaloupe — more than I expected, actually, because I didn’t…

Quick Answer: When to Plant Onion Transplants in Kentucky Plant onion transplants outdoors in April 1–June 15 in western Kentucky, March 25–July 1 in central Kentucky, and late March in eastern Kentucky, according to the University of Kentucky. Onions are cold-tolerant and can handle light frosts. For Kentucky, grow intermediate or long-day varieties. Updated April…

Right now, in my basement, there is a tray of Di Cicco broccoli seedlings sitting under grow lights on a timer. I see people in my social media gardening groups asking how to start broccoli seeds, so I thought I would share here. They have been down there since February 21st, and they are not…

I planted garlic last fall and had a whole plan for it. Then the plan changed — and I had to transplant the sprouted garlic out of its bed at the end of March 2026. That’s the kind of thing that happens on a homestead! This post is about why I moved it, what pre-sprouted…

Last year I grew broccoli. The worms grew it with me. This year, when to plant Broccoli in Kentucky has taken on a new meaning, win against the worms. I planted Calabrese and Waltham 29 — both solid Kentucky varieties — and felt pretty good about it. Then I turned over a leaf one morning…

I really needed a printable planting calendar for my Kentucky Garden. Because Every spring, I’d search: “When should I plant tomatoes? When do peas go in the ground? What about fall broccoli?” I was tired of searching every year and saw others were searching the same things I was. So I built This free Kentucky…

I started searching for “how to grow Thelma Sanders squash in Kentucky”, as I had grown ONE plant in Washington. And my journey gifted me with a full-blown squash chandelier hanging from a cattle panel arch in the middle of my Kentucky garden — and I am not even a little bit sorry about it.…

Quick answer for when to plant peas in Kentucky is 3 paragraphs down if you are skim reading. We were standing outside getting ready to start seeds, and I was showing him how to push a Sugar Snap pea seed down into the soil with his finger. He did it carefully — one seed, then…

If a sweet potato starts sprouting in your pantry, this might be your sign. I know it’s not the ideal way to remember it’s time to start slips, but here we are—February in Kentucky, and those tubers are ready whether I planned for it or not. This year I’m testing both the water method (my…