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Plants for USDA Zone 3

These profiles state a hardiness range that includes Zone 3. Use the category and search filters, then check light, water, mature size, and local heat on the profile.

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61 matches for Zone 3

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Rows of pale green celery stalks growing in a compost-rich vegetable bed

Vegetables

Celery: Crisp Stalks From Your Garden

Apium graveolens

Celery is a long, cool-season crop that only tastes worth the bed space when you protect moisture from transplant to harvest…

Zone 3-10, grown as an annual
Backyard block of sweet corn with tassels above tall green stalks

Vegetables

Corn (Sweet Corn) for Backyard Gardens

Zea mays

Sweet corn only earns its space when the patch is big enough to pollinate itself and strong enough to stay watered through…

Annual in Zone 3-10
Cucumber vines climbing a trellis with yellow flowers and hanging green fruit

Vegetables

Cucumber for Home Vegetable Gardens

Cucumis sativus

Cucumber pays back fast when you make the right structural choice before planting: trellis or sprawl, slicer or pickler, direct…

Annual in Zones 3-10
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