Contact Us
University of California Cooperative Extension Ventura County
669 County Square Drive, Suite 100
Ventura, CA 93003
Phone: 805.645.1451
Fax: 805.645.1474
Office Hours:
Monday - Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The office will be closed for the following holidays:
December 24-25 - Christmas Holiday
December 31 - January 1 - New Year Holiday
January 20 - MLK Day
Planting Vegetables
Lettuce, broccoli, cabbage, peas, radishes, parsley, spinach, carrots and other cool season vegetables can be planted as soon as you can work the soil. Beans, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, and squash should not be planted until soil temperatures get to around 60ºF or warmer, and the danger of frost is passed. This usually happens around the middle of March or early April in Santa Maria. You should plant bare root fruit trees and roses as soon as you can. Bare root plants should preferably be planted by the end of February to ensure good success in establishment. Container plants can be planted anytime. Flowers, such as sweet peas, nasturtium, pansies, dianthus, summer bulbs, and corms like gladiolus, some lilies and iris can be planted now.