Spring planting goes in as early as we can see by upcoming weather. Mostly it is in late February to mid-March. Fall planting we go by whatever the weather heads are spouting about, generally whenever we can see when the first freeze comes, and, sometimes, our weird weather will drop a very late freeze on us. We're not to far from the Gulf of Mexico and, if I remember, we're in zone 8b and sometimes it's 9. If you want weird weather move to SE Texas. Gonna be about 98F this afternoon, no wind blowing, a good bit of cloud cover, typical July weather for us. Weather heads keep saying there may be some rain. Oddly enough, two days ago we got a very small rain sprinkle out of a clear, sunny sky. It was either rain or an airliner dumped the head.