Mid-Atlantic gardening, made local
Plant at the right time. Beat the weeds.
Practical, local gardening guidance from a Mid-Atlantic horticulture professional: frost-date planting calendars by state and a clear guide to identifying and controlling common weeds.
Free planting planner
Your personalized planting calendar
Frost dates are rough estimates by ZIP area, not guarantees; frost can occur after the average date. Adjust for your site and the season.
Planting calendars
Frost dates, USDA zones and crop-by-crop timing for the Mid-Atlantic.
Weed guide
Know what you’re pulling: ID features and control options for common lawn and garden weeds.
🌾Summer annual grass
Crabgrass
Digitaria spp.
ID & control →🌼Perennial broadleafDandelion
Taraxacum officinale
ID & control →☘️Perennial broadleaf (legume)White Clover
Trifolium repens
ID & control →🌸Perennial vineField Bindweed
Convolvulus arvensis
ID & control →🌱Perennial sedgeYellow Nutsedge
Cyperus esculentus
ID & control →✨Winter annual broadleafCommon Chickweed
Stellaria media
ID & control →🍃Perennial broadleafBroadleaf Plantain
Plantago major
ID & control →🪻Perennial broadleafCreeping Charlie (Ground Ivy)
Glechoma hederacea
ID & control →