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Zone 12 Planting Guide
Tropical maritime. Coastal Hawaii, US Virgin Islands. Warm year-round. Minimum winter temperature 50°F to 60°F.
Typical Zone 12
52-week growing season
Days to first frost
256
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Plan your Zone 12 garden
Zone 12 growing tips
- •Focus on tropical crops: breadfruit, taro, cassava, tropical spinach (Malabar), chaya.
- •Standard temperate vegetables need shade in afternoon and may require cooling strategies.
- •Raised beds with imported soil mix often outperform native coral or volcanic soils.
- •Rain catchment is valuable. Tropical rainfall is seasonal and intense.
Every vegetable plantable in Zone 12
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