When to plant tomatoes in Bălți: 1 May – 11 July

In Bălți, tomato: sow for seedlings from 17 February to 20 May; plant into a greenhouse from 10 April to 11 July; plant out into open ground from 1 May to 11 July.

Tomato in Bălți: soil, season and weather

In Bălți the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 7 April, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 15 °C — the minimum on the tomato card — only around 1 May, 24 days later.

Last spring frost	7 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 15 °C	1 May, 24 days after the last frost
Into an unheated greenhouse	10 April – 11 July; April outside: 5.2 °C at night, 16.4 °C by day; card 16–27 °C
First autumn frost	31 October, 183 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	70
First harvest, if planted in this window	10 July – 19 September
Days left for picking	113
Daylight	11:33 on 10 March, 14:28 on 1 May
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 3 days; the driest month, August, has 6 rainy days

Tomato in Bălți: care after planting

Planted on 1 May: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

Feeding, by the card’s schedule from that day:

1 May — feed: balanced (NPK)
29 May — feed: nitrogen

Pests and diseases of tomato to watch for:

Dates count from the first planting day of the window above; a later planting moves them by as many days.

Weather in Bălți during the tomato season

Days average above the tomato card's 16–27 °C in July (27.9 °C) and August (28.2 °C). Months that stay below 16 °C even by day on average: October (15.8 °C). Nights average below 16 °C in May, June and September, October (6.6–15.6 °C).

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
May	21	10.1	68	12	15:07
June	26.3	15.6	70	10	15:59
July	27.9	17.2	60	8	15:39
August	28.2	16.8	41	6	14:20
September	22.8	12.3	48	8	12:38
October	15.8	6.6	44	7	10:55

ERA5 2016–2025, Open-Meteo

Tomato in nearby cities

All the nearest cities on our list plant tomato later than Bălți; the closest date is in Chișinău, 2 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Chișinău	109 km	3 May – 28 July	2 days later
Kamianets-Podilskyi	143 km	3 May – 3 July	2 days later
Chernivtsi	159 km	15 May – 1 July	14 days later
Vinnytsia	168 km	18 May – 30 June	17 days later
Khmelnytskyi	197 km	18 May – 3 July	17 days later
Uman	202 km	15 May – 22 July	14 days later

Where to buy tomato plants and seeds near Bălți

Buy plants ready to set out from 1 May to 11 July (from 10 April to 11 July for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 17 February to 20 May. Within 15 km of Bălți OpenStreetMap lists 3 markets (collected 27 October 2026).

Piața Centrală — market
Piața Vasile Alecsandri 2, Bălți · 0 km
Magazin Use Termopan — market
1 km
monumente — market
1 km

Each window starts on the Greenly calendar date and ends on the last day that still leaves the crop’s days to harvest (from its card) before the average first autumn frost, plus six weeks of picking for crops harvested over weeks (tomatoes, peppers, aubergines, cucumbers, courgettes, pumpkins, watermelons, beans) — our rule; earlier in the window is safer.

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