When is the best time to plant a vegetable garden in North East Ohio?

We are planting our first vegetable garden and we arent sure when it is a good time so if anyone could help that would be great.

When is the best time to plant a vegetable garden in North East Ohio?
Your cold-hardniess zone is 5/6. (Used to be zone 5, now it's zone 6....consider yourself on the line between)



Your last frost date is around mid-May.



I live in Ohio. There is stuff to be planted almost any month except January and February.



In March, I plant potatoes, peas, shallots, and onions. In early April, I seed Swiss Chard, Lettuces, Kale, spinach, and transplant out broccoli, artichokes, and cabbages. Those are all "cool weather veggies" and can take frost. Mid to late April, I start harvesting the asparagus (it's a perennial crop, one that comes up every year)



In early May, I plant tomatoes, and peppers (and should we have a late frost, I'll throw bedsheets over them for the night - but that rarely happens). Mid-May, I plant corn, beans, basil and other annual herbs, squashes of all sorts, including pumpkins, eggplants. Pretty much everything I haven 't already gotten in.



I seed more broccoli in late July, and plant it out in late August. It really starts growing strong in mid september when the weather cools down, and I am harvesting through a few light frosts.



In October or November (or sometimes even december), I plant the garlic - about the same time I'm planting flower bulbs like daffodils and tulips. The garlic starts coming up through the winter. It's great to see green things sticking up through the snow! And they get harvested in July, when the tops die back about halfway.



So I suppose the answer to "when to plant" is "what are you planting?"
Reply:i live east of you in pa. and i just tilled my garden...you can do onions and radishes and lettuce but for tomatoes and peppers i would wait a couple of more weeks...we get frosts here well into may...
Reply:I live in West Michigan and I have my snap/snow peas planted already, they can tolerate the cold

most others you have to wait another month or so, but you can start them inside now
Reply:frost is last gone that is when i believe its something in june or near july you can plant. not very long like south though.
Reply:Depends on your growing zone. You really should do some basic research online or at the local library. I'm guessing you're in zone 4, but that's just a guess. I'd say your frost-free date would be June 1 or thereabouts.
Reply:Rule of thumb, never plant when the month has an "R" in it
Reply:it is always best to plant on good friday