growing season

American  

[groh-ing see-zuhn] / ˈgroʊ ɪŋ ˌsi zən /

noun

growing seasons plural

1. the part of the year when there is suitable temperature, daylight, and moisture for plants, especially crops, to grow.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• growing-season
  adjective

Inflected Forms

noun

• growing seasons
  plural

Example Sentences

Coming off of 2025, market volatility saw farmers across the country hesitant to buy their year’s fertilizer early, opting instead to buy it closer to the start of the spring growing season.

From Salon • May 15, 2026

If the disruption lasts through late March and into April, the market may start pricing not just delays, but genuine scarcity for the spring and summer growing season.

From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026

To find out, the team counted locusts and measured crop damage three times during the growing season and recorded yields at harvest.

From Science Daily • Jan. 24, 2026

As the growing season progresses, the plant puffs itself into a roughly spherical shape, until the first frosts, when it snaps off its stalk and waits to be blown across the landscape.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025

Farming there had to await the arrival from faraway Europe, on European ships, of crops adapted to Europe’s cool climate and short growing season.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond