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Built for Zone 7b (Middle TN). The app filters this calendar to the exact USDA zone locked in your profile; this page shows the Zone 7b baseline. Cold-frame, storage, and container-citrus tricks stretch the shoulder months.
The year at a glance
| Month | 🍎 Fruit ready | 🥕 Vegetables ready | Star varieties |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | Stored apples, indoor citrus | Winter kale, leeks, mâche, overwintered spinach, storage carrots | 'Arkansas Black' apple, 'Improved Meyer' lemon |
| February | Stored apples, indoor citrus | Winter kale, mâche, overwintered spinach, leeks | 'Nagami' kumquat |
| March | Stored apples, indoor citrus | Early spinach, storage roots | Stored 'Fuji' apple |
| April | Rhubarb, indoor citrus | Asparagus, spring lettuce, radishes, spinach, kale | 'Victoria' rhubarb, 'Jersey Knight' asparagus |
| May | Honeyberries, early strawberries, rhubarb | Asparagus, lettuce, radishes, peas, kale | 'Aurora' honeyberry, 'Earliglow' strawberry |
| June | Blueberries, sour cherries, serviceberries | Peas, beets, lettuce, garlic, new potatoes | 'Duke' blueberry, 'Montmorency' cherry |
| July | Peaches, blackberries, plums, blueberries, mulberries | Tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, beans, corn, okra, peppers | 'Redhaven' peach, 'Natchez' blackberry, 'Santa Rosa' plum |
| August | Figs, pears, summer apples, grapes | Tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, squash, beans, corn, eggplant | 'Celeste' fig, 'Orient' pear, 'Reliance' grape, 'Lodi' apple |
| September | Muscadines, pawpaws, main-crop figs, fall raspberries | Tomatoes, peppers, beans, winter squash, sweet potatoes, okra | 'Ison' muscadine, native pawpaw, 'Heritage' raspberry |
| October | Asian & American persimmons, main-crop apples, jujubes | Winter squash, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, turnips | 'Fuyu' persimmon, 'Honeycrisp' apple, 'Li' jujube |
| November | Late apples, hardy kiwis, late persimmons | Brussels sprouts, kale, collards, carrots, leeks, broccoli | 'Arkansas Black' apple, 'Ken's Red' kiwi, native persimmon |
| December | Medlars, holdover persimmons, cold-hardy citrus | Kale, collards, leeks, mâche, overwintered spinach | 'Monstreuse' medlar, 'Yuzu' citrus |
How to build a year-round harvest
- Stack the fruit windows. Combine early (honeyberry, strawberry), mid (stone fruit, berries), and late (persimmon, jujube, kiwi) so something is always ripening.
- Lean on storage crops. Winter squash, sweet potatoes, storage apples, and root-cellared carrots carry you through the coldest months without a greenhouse.
- Use the cold. Kale, collards, leeks, mâche, and spinach not only survive frost — many get sweeter. A simple cold frame or low tunnel keeps salads coming all winter.
- Bring citrus indoors. A potted Meyer lemon or kumquat fruits on the windowsill December–April, right when little else is fresh.
- Mind the pollination rule. Many fruits need a partner variety — or, for kiwi and some persimmons, a male and a female — or you'll harvest nothing. See the Perennial & Fruit guide.
Bottom line: a "hungry gap" is a planning problem, not a fact of life. Pick a few crops from each row above, weight them toward the months you're currently missing, and you can eat from your own ground in all twelve.
The Moon Phase Garden app turns this into a tap-a-month calendar filtered to your exact zone — and ties each crop to your planting and harvest reminders.