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

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

Thurlow said the group of California fruit farmers he represents will start selling produce to a high-end importer in Malaysia this coming growing season.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 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

Cows aren’t allowed on the roughly 50,000-acre expanse during the growing season.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025

For thousands of years after corn was domesticated in Mexico, it failed to spread northward into eastern North America, because of the cooler climates and shorter growing season prevailing there.

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