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When to Plant Sweet Woodruff in Zone 5

In USDA zone 5, plant outdoors May 5 to August 3, and expect your first harvest around August 3.

Sweet Woodruff planting calendar for USDA Zone 5

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Direct sow

May 5

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Projected first harvest

Aug 3

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🌱 Start indoors🌿 Growing outside🌾 HarvestTodayZone 5a — approximate

Sweet Woodruff is ready to harvest in about 90 days. Dates use USDA zone 5a average frost dates. Set your ZIP in HomeSown for dates tuned to your exact location.

What zone 5 means for sweet woodruff

Average last spring frost

May 5

Average first fall frost

October 1

Those two dates are what set the schedule above. Zone 5 gives you roughly 149 frost-free days, and sweet woodruff need about 90 days to mature.

Varieties to grow

1 variety of sweet woodruff in the HomeSown library. Tap any for its full grow guide.

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