We’re committed to setting you up for success in your garden, and a big part of that is ensuring your plants arrive at the perfect time for planting in your area. Timing is everything when it comes to growing healthy, thriving plants, and depending on where you live in the country, the right planting time can vary considerably. This is where hardiness zones, frost dates, and our carefully chosen ship weeks come into play.

Your USDA Hardiness Zone is a key factor in determining the best planting times for your garden. It provides insight into your climate’s average temperatures and helps predict when the frost will likely end. But beyond your hardiness zone, you also need to know your last expected frost date—the date after which it’s typically safe to plant outdoors.

Every Garden Club order includes a beautiful plug care booklet created by our team of horticulturalists to support your budding adventure.

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To make it easy for you, we’ve split our plant collections into two distinct categories:

1) Early Spring Planting: These are for the cool-season plugs and plants, which can be planted in cold soil. They’re ready to go into your garden about 4 weeks before your last frost date. These hardy plants are built to withstand those early spring temperatures, giving you a head start on your garden.

2) Late Spring Planting: These plugs and plants need warm soil and should be planted only after the threat of frost has completely passed. This means waiting until the last frost date has come and gone to ensure they thrive.

When placing your order, you’ll be asked to select a ship week - this is simply the week in which we will send your plants to you. Choosing the correct ship week is crucial to match the planting needs of your varieties with the ideal conditions in your area.

To decide the best ship week, you need to determine your last expected frost date. For example, if you’re in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, your growing zone is 7a, and your last spring frost date is typically April 21st. This means:

Cool-season plugs should be planted around the end of March or very early April, about 4 weeks before April 21st.

Warm-season plugs should be planted after April 21st, once the soil has warmed up and the risk of frost has passed.

To streamline this process, we use week numbers. There are usually 52 weeks in a year, with Week 1 starting on January 1st and Week 52 ending on December 31st. For example, if your last frost date is April 21st, that would fall around Week 17(Apr. 21-27). When choosing your ship week, you’ll select based on these week numbers.

To help avoid any confusion, we will also include the specific dates in brackets next to each week number, so you can be sure you’re selecting the best time for your plants to arrive.

We understand that navigating frost dates and week numbers can be a bit overwhelming, especially if you’re new to gardening. That’s why we’re here to help every step of the way. Choosing the right ship week means your plants will arrive at just the right moment - so you can plant them when they’re most likely to thrive, transforming your garden into a beautiful, blooming masterpiece.

Feel free to reach out if you need help figuring out your frost date or selecting the right ship week. We want to make this process as easy and rewarding as possible so you can enjoy your gardening journey from the very start.