Spring planting dates for veg depend on the clime . Many envelopes or packets of vegetable seeds are printed with the appropriate U.S. Department of Agriculture grow zone for that veg . Gardeners living in the bottom third of Nebraska are in the warmer USDA growing zona , zone 5 ; those in living in the upper two - thirds are in USDA zona 4 , which is colder . Nebraskan living in zone 5 can safely plant at the former recommend escort ; those who survive in zone 4 may have to wait if frost lingers .
March
The University of Nebraska at Lincoln Horticulture Extension Service recommend March 15 as the planting engagement for asparagus crown , collard , onion hardening , peas , radishes , spinach and Brassica rapa . Radishes will taste sweeter if they are grown in coolheaded conditions , concord to UNL . Hold off until March 30 to industrial plant leeks , mustard , tater and Swiss chard .
April
April 5 is a rough starting engagement for broccoli , bread , cauliflower , carrots , lettuce and kohlrabi in Nebraska . carrot taste acid if they are get in coolheaded conditions . April 15 is recommended for planting beet seeds .
May
By May 1 the land should have warmed enough to set cantaloupe , cucumber , pumpkin and summer squelch . expect until May 15 to plant eggplant , sweet melon vine , okra , pepper , unfermented clavus , sweet-flavored potatoes , tomatoes and watermelon .
Plant eggplant , peppers and tomato plant between the rows of loot , pea plant , radishes and prickly-seeded spinach that you planted to begin with . This is called interplanting , and it serve control louse and disease . If you amalgamate up the veg it prevents major damage by an insect that prefers one particular flora . Plant lettuce and spinach in the shade of marvelous crop . Plant weighed down feeders , like broccoli , cabbage , cauliflower and Brussels sprouts among plants that need fewer food .
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