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

Just in time for the start of the growing season, the National Drought Mitigation Center’s latest U.S.

From Barron's • Apr. 20, 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

Many of them are paid laborers who work the fields during the growing season, and then come to Aswan to work in the quarry during the remainder of the year.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman