Guide Farm, Garden & 4-H · evergreen reference, not a news story · All guides
Seed-packet zones are a start; Delta heat and frost timing still decide whether tomatoes sulk. University of Arkansas Extension county pages and frost-date charts beat a viral “plant everything on Good Friday” meme.
Useful habits
- Note approximate last spring / first fall frost for your county band.
- Separate cool-season greens from warm-season fruiting crops on the calendar.
- Soil test through Extension before dumping random fertilizer blends.
Field habit: write the year on your calendar photo — climate chatter without dates is noise.
Label: evergreen how-to. Not planting advice for a specific acre this week.
Sources: UA Division of Agriculture Extension gardening / frost resources; county Extension contacts; USDA plant hardiness context (verify). Educational only.