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FALL PLANTING · SOURCE REGION III

Central & East Texas
planting calendar.

Austin, Dallas, Waco and Houston appear within Region III on the historical source map. That grouping is a broad planning reference, not a claim that these cities share identical weather.

Source-map cities: Austin · Dallas · Waco · Houston · San Antonio · College Station

Keep a two-part fall plan: establish warm-season plants first and save another sowing session for cool-season crops. Dates below are average fall planting dates, not deadlines or weather predictions.

WHAT TO GROWAVERAGE STARTMETHOD

Tomatoes

July 1Transplant

Peppers

July 1Transplant

Broccoli

September 1Seed or transplant

Cabbage

September 1Seed or transplant

Carrots

November 10Direct sow

Leaf lettuce

October 10Direct sow

Spinach

November 15Direct sow

Radishes

November 25Direct sow

Beets

October 15Direct sow

Cucumbers

September 1Direct sow

Summer squash

September 10Direct sow

Bush snap beans

September 1Direct sow

Central & East Texas in context

Texas state overview. Historical planting-region boundaries are not shown.
Source-map cities for this planting region: Austin · Dallas · Waco · Houston · San Antonio · College Station. The map shows state geography, not the historical growing-region boundary. Use Figure 1 of the linked Extension guide to locate that region. Map geography: Natural Earth.

BEFORE YOU PLANT

Make the calendar
work for your garden.

The calendar separates July tomato starts from much later root and leaf crops. Do not treat a pleasant September weekend as a reason to start every vegetable at once.

Know where the dates come from.

Table 1 supplies average fall planting dates. Table 2 supplies last optimum dates only for the crops it lists. Figure 1 defines the five historical gardening regions; these are not current USDA hardiness zones.

Read the 2014 Extension guide (PDF) ↗

Source checked September 27, 2026. Independent interpretation; no university affiliation.