Where do you live? I would look up a local nursery and either poke around on their website or call them. Portland Nursery, for example, has a one-sheet with planting time recs.
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Boston area. I think I’m 6b.
I’ll check local garden stores, thanks!
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UMass Agricultural Extension should have lots of resources:
I found this planting calendar for vegetables:
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Grrr. I keep having to pull my pea plants. So much powdery mildew. Even the babies have them. Not sure if it’s insufficient airflow or the leaves getting wet, or both. I’m gonna try putting in a soaker hose so they’re no longer watered from above.
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Driveway garden update:
The cosmos seeds @GJT’s daughter sent Pikelet have started flowering 
The tomatoes are looking good but will be slow to ripen in the cold weather.
Fear not fellow possum lovers and fruit fly city inhabitants, we removed the bags for photographs only.
We hit rocks or hard clay when we put the stakes in and a few are quite wobbly/wonky now, the plants are getting too tall too. I’m not sure what our next move is, maybe something with the fence?
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Woohoo for the Cosmos.
You can run some string from the top the stake to the fence if you wish to go higher. Or if you wish to do a lower and lean system, just offset the string on top of the fence so that the plant runs sideways, it’s what commercial growers do. Wrap the stem around the string as it grows longer, no need for any clips to hold it in place then.
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I pulled a teeny tiny beetroot and it has glitter i.e. microplastics stuck to it 
I want to cling to my belief that my vege patch has beautiful clean soil with no plastic pollution.
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Could it be vermiculite from a potting mix or seedling mix?
It’s not a particularly sustainable material either but not plastic at least?
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This was my thought too, but I can’t really tell from the photo.
We grew cosmos, had a couple of healthy leaves on each plant. I moved them to the shade because they were in the way, 48 hours later all 3 have been beheaded. I think that was my last of the seeds. Dammit. I am gonna need to work out a safer seedling growing area.
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It’s shiny, shiny silver glitter. Doesn’t come across in the photo but it’s obvious in real life.
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What variety of tomato is that?
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Chocolate sprinkles! They’re pretty, and they’re fairly good tasting, but the skin is super thick which is really different from what we’ve grown other years. Still, very happy with them!
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Remember when I said the community garden would just be a placeholder this year?
I am so proud of what I have been able to accomplish under difficult circumstances. In a month I will be drowning in tomatoes.
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A delicious, delicious placeholder.
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So it turns out the community garden one town over has spare plots available for $40 per year. It is readily accessible for all and sundry (not fenced/gated), down the bottom of a hill, shaded for the majority of the day at this time of the year.
Dunno.
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