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I've taken on a garden in the upperHome and Garden

Task prompt

I've taken on a garden in the upper Midwest and I want a written schedule for my first full year rather than guessing when to plant. I need to know which crops go in the ground first, which ones cannot go out until the frost risk has passed, when the second sowing window for a fall harvest opens, and which tasks are seasonal maintenance rather than planting. Use the University of Minnesota Extension's own gardening pages and the USDA's plant hardiness zone material. Extension pages give timings as month ranges and sometimes give two acceptable windows for the same task, one marked as the better one, so keep both rather than collapsing them to a single date. The hardiness map is an interactive tool rather than a page of text, so tell me what it can and cannot give me for this purpose instead of pretending it produced a number. I want a month by month table covering every task, a separate list of what I must buy or start indoors ahead of each window, and a clear note on which timings would shift if I gardened somewhere colder.