Zone 11 Planting Planner
The whole gardening year for one USDA zone, in windows rather than dates.
- Every task in its window, ordered through the year
- Frost dates for the zone, stated as ranges not promises
- Start-indoors, transplant, and direct-sow timing
- What to do in the dormant months
- One planner, any state in the zone
$9.00one-time
Instant download · yours to keep, with no account and no renewal · full refund within 30 days
A look inside
What the Zone 11 Planting Planner pages actually look like
Zone 11, season by season
How the planner divides a year with no winter
| Cool season | Greens, roots, brassicas and herbs — the classic spring garden, which in zone 11 runs through the mild winter instead |
|---|---|
| Warm season | Tomatoes, peppers and beans go in early, to be harvested before peak heat stalls fruit set |
| Hot season | Heat specialists — okra, sweet potato, cowpeas — and shade cloth, which earns its keep |
| Storm and wet season | Where it applies, sowings are timed around it rather than through it |
No frost to plan around
What sets the season in zone 11
Zone 11 never reliably freezes, so a last-frost date — the hinge every temperate planner swings on — does not exist here. Planting the way a zone 6 calendar tells you to is how a garden in zone 11 ends up cooking in July.
This planner is built on what does govern the year at these temperatures: heat, rain, and day length. The cool season is the productive one for most vegetables, the summer is the hard part to plan around, and the growing year runs straight through the turn of the calendar rather than starting in spring.
How zone 11 is planned
Counted, not claimed
Zone 11 is frost-free, so this planner is built around heat and rain rather than a last-frost date — the tasks are ordered by what the season is doing, not by a date that never comes.
It is one planner for every state that contains zone 11 — the plants and the timing follow the zone, which is what actually governs them, rather than a state border.
How it works
From checkout to the field
Buy it
Checkout takes a card and an email address — no account to create.
Open it straight away
The download link appears immediately and the zone 11 planner is yours to keep.
Use it through the year
Work down the windows through the season — it is ordered so the next thing to do is always the next thing on the page.
Free and paid, side by side
What the edition adds to what is already free here
| On the site | Zone 11 Planting Planner | |
|---|---|---|
| What it covers | This month's jobs, on the site | The whole gardening year for zone 11, ordered start to finish |
| How timing is given | The current window | Every window in sequence, so you can see what is coming |
| Where it works | Wherever you are | Any state that contains zone 11 |
| Price | Free, and staying that way | $9.00 once — no renewal |
Before you buy
Who this is for
Made for
- Gardeners in zone 11 who want the year sequenced rather than guessed
- Anyone who has moved zones and no longer trusts their old instincts
- People starting seeds indoors who need the count-back done for them
Not for
- Anyone wanting exact calendar dates — zone 11 timing is given as windows
- Gardeners after a species list; this planner is about timing, not what to buy
Frost dates here are typical whole-zone averages, and a zone stretches across a great deal of country. Use them to order the season, and let the weather in front of you set the exact day.
Questions
Before you decide
How do I know I am in zone 11?
Your USDA hardiness zone comes from your average coldest winter temperature. Enter a ZIP anywhere on this site and it will tell you, on your own device.
My yard runs warmer than zone 11 — is it still useful?
Yes, and that is why everything is a window rather than a date. A sheltered yard runs early inside its window; an exposed one runs late. The order of the tasks does not change.
Does one planner really cover several states?
It covers zone 11, which is what actually governs when things can go in the ground. A state line does not change a frost date; an elevation change does.
What format is it, and can I print it?
A PDF laid out for both Letter and A4, one page per sheet. Printing it is the point — a gardening year is meant to be used away from a screen.
What if it is not what I expected?
Email hello@birchcompass.com within 30 days for a full refund, and keep the files either way — asking for them back would be theatre.
In the box
Exactly what you receive
| Pages | 4 pages — the whole gardening year in windows |
|---|---|
| Format | PDF, laid out for both Letter and A4 |
| Delivery | An instant download link, plus a link you can re-open for 72 hours |
| Access | Yours to keep — no expiry, no account, no subscription |
| Refunds | Full refund within 30 days, no questions |
Where it comes from
Compiled from
USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map · Cooperative Extension (land-grant directory). How each of these is used in the national edition, and which figures are measured rather than modeled, is set out in the methodology.
Not tied to one state
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