What to Plant in October in Zone 3
Browse vegetables, herbs, flowers, and fruit with planting windows that include October in USDA zone 3.
October Plan for Zone 3
Read the zone 3 October planting guide for priorities and frost decisions. Also see how to use your first-frost date and What to plant now.
Fall Flower Seeds for Zone 3
Flowers below with a fall window can be sown this month. Dates and zone notes are in these guides:
Planting Calendar
- Breadseed Poppy: fall planting, October 10 to November 15
- Apple Tree: fall planting, September 15 to October 15
Zone 3 Guides and Tools
- Bulb Desk: when to plant spring bulbs
- Garlic Desk
- Fall Fruit Planting Desk
- Seed Viability Check: store and test leftover seed
- Cover Crop Desk
- Frost Harvest Desk
- Garden to Bed checklist
- Harvest Storage Desk
- Fall Leaves Desk: shred leaves and make leaf mold
- Winter Mulch Desk: when to mulch and how much
- Soil Test Desk: test soil and add lime in fall
- Which herbs survive winter by zone
- How to bring rosemary indoors for winter
- When to bring basil and tender herbs indoors
- Succession Desk
- First frost date
- What to plant now
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