Grow Guide

What to grow this month.

Anywhere in the world, in plain words. Tell us where you garden, pick a month, and we’ll show you what to plant, what to pick, and one simple tip.

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Autumn

October — Put the garden to bed

Start seeds inside

  • Tiny salad greens on a sunny windowsill

Plant outside

  • Garlic cloves, pointy end up

Pick & do

  • Dig up the last carrots and potatoes

Simple tip: Cover empty soil with leaves. It’s like a warm blanket for worms all winter.

Easy plants to start with here:

  • Lettuce
  • Radishes
  • Peas
  • Potatoes

My Garden

Your own planting calendar

Tap what you’d like to grow. We’ll work out when to start seeds, plant out and pick, from the frost dates where you garden. It’s saved on this device only.

Ask the garden helper

Snap a photo of a sick plant or ask anything about growing. Answers use your place and this month’s tips.

The helper is an AI and can make mistakes, so double-check before you spray, dig, or eat anything. Never eat a wild plant or mushroom based on its answer. Photos and questions aren’t stored. See our privacy page.

Get a reminder each month

One short email at the start of each month with what to plant where you garden. Free, and you can stop anytime.

We’re setting up the monthly emails now. Sign up and you’ll get the first one when they start. See our privacy page.

New to growing? Start with these 4 basics
  1. Sun: Most vegetables want about 6 hours of sunshine a day. Pick your sunniest spot.
  2. Water: Poke your finger into the soil. Dry at your first knuckle? Water. Still damp? Wait.
  3. Soil: Plants eat from the soil. Mix in compost (old rotted plants and food scraps) once a year.
  4. Frost: Frost is when a night gets so cold that ice forms. It hurts baby plants, so plant tender ones after your last frost of the year.

Every garden is a little different. Hills, cities, and coastlines change the timing. Use this as a friendly starting point, and ask a neighbor who grows.

Video lessons

Learn it in 10 seconds

Quick how-tos from our classes. Watch, then try the steps in your own garden.

Feed your soil

  1. Squeeze a handful of soil. Good soil holds together, then crumbles.
  2. Spread a layer of compost about as thick as your thumb.
  3. Mix it into the top of the soil with a fork. Worms will do the rest.

Make compost

  1. Add “greens”: kitchen scraps like peels, cores, and coffee grounds.
  2. Cover them with “browns”: dry leaves, straw, or torn cardboard.
  3. Turn the pile every week or two. In a few months it’s dark, crumbly compost.

Save your seeds

  1. Let a few bean pods dry brown on the plant, then shell them.
  2. Spread tomato seeds on paper and let them dry for a week.
  3. Store dry seeds in a labeled paper envelope somewhere cool and dark.

Videos made with AI to show each step clearly. Join a class to learn it hands-on.

How this guide works

We match your place to one of six garden climates using real climate records: each town’s Köppen-Geiger climate type and how cold its winter nights get (1981–2010 averages, about 1 km detail). Frost dates come from each month’s average night-time low, tuned so they match published frost dates within a week or two, leaning to the safe side. They’re typical dates, not forecasts; for towns we also show the next 7 nights’ forecast, warning when a night may drop to 2°C or below, since frost can form on the ground before the air reaches freezing. The monthly tips were checked against university and government growing calendars, such as the University of Florida (UF/IFAS) and University of Arizona extension guides.

Your privacy: To guess your area on your first visit, we use the rough location of your internet connection. If you tap “Use my location”, your position is rounded to about 10 km before it’s used to find your nearest town. The frost forecast comes from Open-Meteo, asked by our server with only the place’s rough position. Nothing is stored except your choice, which stays in your own browser.

Place names: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Climate data: CHELSA V2.1, Karger et al. (2017), Scientific Data 4:170122 (CC0). Weather: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0). Country names: ISO 3166.

For apps and AI assistants: the guide is also available as a free API and AI connector.

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