GreenlyWhat to plant in October
What is sown for seedlings, planted in a greenhouse and planted outside in October depends on when your last spring frost is. Find your climate below — or open your city.
What to plant in October, by climate:
- Late spring: last frost in late April or May (Tallinn): Bearded Iris, Crocus, Daffodil, Garlic and 6 more
- Mild: last frost in March (Kherson): Bearded Iris, Crocus, Daffodil, Garlic and 6 more
- Warm winter: frost only now and then (Chihuahua): Lisianthus, Leek, Snapdragon, Chayote and 1 more
- Southern hemisphere: spring from September (Córdoba): Basil, Bell Pepper, China aster, Cucumber and 10 more
Late spring: last frost in late April or May
Dates for Tallinn; other cities of this climate:
- Tallinn
- Kazan
- Toronto
- Birmingham
- Kaliningrad
- Montreal
- Edinburgh
- Grodno
- Minneapolis
- Glasgow
- Moscow
- Chelyabinsk
- Ufa
- Khabarovsk
- Ottawa
- Saint Petersburg
- Minsk
- Denver
- Nizhny Novgorod
- Tula
- Karaganda
- Barnaul
- Omsk
- Stockholm
- Perm
- Vilnius
- Oslo
- Helsinki
- Astana
- Vitebsk
- Edmonton
- Yekaterinburg
- Yaroslavl
- Winnipeg
- Calgary
- Irkutsk
- Tyumen
- Novosibirsk
- Krasnoyarsk
| Crop | What to do | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Bearded Iris | plant for next season | 2 October |
| Crocus | plant for next season | 2 October |
| Daffodil | plant for next season | 2 October |
| Garlic | plant for next season | 2 October |
| Hyacinth | plant for next season | 2 October |
| Lily | plant for next season | 2 October |
| Peony | plant for next season | 2 October |
| Saffron | plant for next season | 2 October |
| Tulip | plant for next season | 2 October |
| Wild garlic | plant for next season | 2 October |
Moderate: last frost in April
Dates for Saratov; other cities of this climate:
- Saratov
- Kyiv
- Kryvyi Rih
- Poltava
- Uzhhorod
- Valladolid
- Cologne
- St. Louis
- Dublin
- Kropyvnytskyi
- Yerevan
- Vienna
- Budapest
- Kansas City
- Warsaw
- Vladivostok
- Paris
- Bratislava
- Boston
- Almaty
- Brussels
- Chernihiv
- Zhytomyr
- Bristol
- Sofia
- Berlin
- Gomel
- Munich
- Frankfurt
- Lviv
- Zurich
- Vinnytsia
- Riga
- Lutsk
- Ankara
- Chernivtsi
- Wrocław
- Burgos
- Chicago
- Rivne
- Khmelnytskyi
- Kraków
- Leeds
- Belfast
- Copenhagen
- Samara
- Prague
- Hamburg
- Kharkiv
- Ivano-Frankivsk
- Voronezh
- Ternopil
- Poznań
- Leipzig
- Manchester
- Sumy
- Gdańsk
- Brest
- Detroit
- Salt Lake City
Nothing is sown or planted out in this climate this month; the season starts in December.
Mild: last frost in March
Dates for Kherson; other cities of this climate:
- Kherson
- Bilbao
- Atlanta
- Tashkent
- Charlotte
- Seattle
- Krasnodar
- Pamplona
- Madrid
- Nashville
- Cardiff
- Lyon
- Portland
- Belgrade
- Vancouver
- Odesa
- Rostov-on-Don
- Bucharest
- Granada
- Cherkasy
- Mykolaiv
- Shymkent
- Oviedo
- Washington, D.C.
- Salamanca
- Zaporizhzhia
- Tbilisi
- Dnipro
- New York
- Volgograd
- Stavropol
- Amsterdam
- Philadelphia
- Cork
- Chișinău
- London
- Bishkek
- Zagreb
| Crop | What to do | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Bearded Iris | plant for next season | 18 October |
| Crocus | plant for next season | 18 October |
| Daffodil | plant for next season | 18 October |
| Garlic | plant for next season | 18 October |
| Hyacinth | plant for next season | 18 October |
| Lily | plant for next season | 18 October |
| Peony | plant for next season | 18 October |
| Saffron | plant for next season | 18 October |
| Tulip | plant for next season | 18 October |
| Wild garlic | plant for next season | 18 October |
Warm winter: frost only now and then
Dates for Chihuahua; other cities of this climate:
- Chihuahua
- Valencia
- Seville
- Murcia
- Monterrey
- A Coruña
- Barcelona
- Porto
- Rome
- Zaragoza
- Phoenix
- Marseille
- Athens
- Bordeaux
- Houston
- Toledo
- Dallas
- Austin
- Baku
- Milan
- Istanbul
| Crop | What to do | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Lisianthus | sow for seedlings | 2 October |
| Leek | sow for seedlings | 19 October |
| Lisianthus | sow seedlings for the open ground | 23 October |
| Snapdragon | sow for seedlings | 24 October |
| Chayote | sow for seedlings | 29 October |
| Oregano | sow for seedlings | 29 October |
Southern hemisphere: spring from September
Dates for Córdoba; other cities of this climate:
- Córdoba
- Buenos Aires
- Rosario
- Concepción
- La Plata
- Melbourne
- Johannesburg
- Valparaíso
- Santiago
- Mendoza
- Christchurch
- Neuquén
- Canberra
- La Paz
| Crop | What to do | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Basil | plant out in the open ground | 1 October |
| Bell Pepper | plant out in the open ground | 1 October |
| China aster | plant out in the open ground | 1 October |
| Cucumber | plant out in the open ground | 1 October |
| Eggplant | plant out in the open ground | 1 October |
| Luffa | plant out in the open ground | 1 October |
| Melon | plant out in the open ground | 1 October |
| Okra | plant out in the open ground | 1 October |
| Peanut | plant out in the open ground | 1 October |
| Petunia | plant out in the open ground | 1 October |
| Watermelon | plant out in the open ground | 1 October |
| Chili Pepper | plant out in the open ground | 18 October |
| Moringa | plant out in the open ground | 18 October |
| Zinnia | plant out in the open ground | 18 October |
Dates are for the typical city of each climate by the same rules as the app: a week after the last frost once the soil is warm enough, frost-hardy crops three weeks before it, an unheated greenhouse three weeks earlier. Your own place can differ by a week or two — Greenly works it out from your location.