2026 · Central Florida
What to do this month
Two vegetable years fit in one calendar here: a cool crop through winter, a heat crop through summer, and a fall tomato window when nights ease. The live plant lists sit on UF/IFAS Gardening Solutions. This plate is a field paraphrase for Orange, Seminole, and Osceola — not a reprint of a copyrighted table.
Two vegetable years
Cool crops ride winter: brassicas, potatoes, onions, collards. Warm crops take late spring into summer: pepper, okra, sweet potato, eggplant. Tomatoes and most fruiting nightshades miss June through August as a reliable window. Lady beetles hunt through the warm months; Harmonia looks for wall cracks when nights cool.
Month tool
2026 · Central band
November
This month
- Yard work
- Cool-season crops take the beds. Mulch. Cover on a true freeze night. Indoor beetle clusters are usually Harmonia; vacuum and seal.
- In season
- Camellia beginning, pentas in warm pockets, remaining zinnia.
Questions
Why two tomato windows?
Night heat in summer stops fruit set. Gardening Solutions treats tomato as a late-winter/spring crop and a fall crop in Central Florida.