I work at the Natural Gardener nursery in Austin and here's the planting schedule we hand out to customers and use to plant our vegetable garden. Whatever you do, go by a schedule for Travis County. What Aggie Hort guide are you looking at, and what zone was the listing for? I'd bet it wasn't for Travis County or even zone 8.

When you say "I would like to know when to plant seeds in container and when to plant transplants.", do you mean when to start the seeds indoors and when to set out the transplants? Or when to direct seed and when to set out transplants? The planting schedule I linked to above says "from transplant" when it's transplants they're talking about planting out on the specified dates. For those things, you'll need to start the seeds indoors four to six weeks before that transplant date (the length of time varies depending on if you're using a heated greenhouse or not, bottom heat or not, etc.). If the schedule doesn't say "from transplants", then direct seed those things directly into the garden on the date specified.

You do know that some of those are warm season growers and others are cool season growers, right? I'll break it down for you:

Things to grow in the warm seasons (will be killed by frost):
Snap Bush Beans
Sweet Corn
Cucumber
Pepper
Summer Squash
Tomato

Things to grow in the cool season (plant now and grow through winter):
Lettuce
Sugar Snap Peas

These last two are cool season crops but are a bit different from the rest of the cool season crops (they just have more particular timing needs):
Onions from sets ~ these can take freezes without a problem, so plant in late winter for late spring/early summer harvest
Irish potatoes ~ these can survive a frost or two killing the tops back, but it'll set them back a bit, so plant in early or mid March for late spring/early summer harvest.

Thank you so much! That was exactly what I needed! I knew that some where cool season I just didn't know when to plant so thank you for clarifying. I'm excited that now I can start some of the sugar snap peas from seeds this month! One more thing to look forward to!

Thank you so much!

Thanks for the chart! I printed it to have as a reference.

Ya'll are sure welcome! Isn't that thing handy as all get out? Lays it all out there for you perfectly.

Say, Ashely (and you, too, Roselee, if you didn't already know), at work we have an Information Desk that's always staffed with very knowledgeable people who will help you diagnose pests and tell you what to do to get rid of them. Just bring in a few leaves or some of the pests in a ziploc bag, and preferably some pictures of the entire affected plant/area, and they'll give it their best shot. Best part is the service is free. That's a great help to all gardeners, even seasoned ones like me. I'm learning a LOT from them.

You may want to check out the Winter sowing forum.. easy to crowd the house with seedling and they can get really leggy with out the proper light... Your county extension center will provide you a planting guide for free that is specific to your area ..I think I just called them and sent out info for trees. Flower, and Veggies.... I am in Palo Pinto Co.

Kylie