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Vegetable Seed Starting Timeline for North Georgia

Start broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce 10 weeks before last frost (late April). Tomato, eggplant, pepper: 7 weeks. Cucumber, squash, watermelon: 4 weeks. Count back from your frost date.

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