growing season

American  

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

noun

plural

growing seasons

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

• growing-season adjective

Example Sentences

Lower fertilizer use could weigh on crop yields for North American and European farmers during a critical growing season, Yara’s CEO said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 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

But at the very top, surviving terminals had sent out new twigs in the next growing season.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 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