When to plant tomatoes in Bukhara: 21 March – 16 July

In Bukhara, tomato: sow for seedlings from 7 January to 25 May; plant into a greenhouse from 28 February to 16 July; plant out into open ground from 21 March to 16 July.

Tomato in Bukhara: soil, season and weather

In Bukhara frost, not soil, sets the date: the top 7 cm of soil warms to 15 °C — the minimum on the tomato card — around 21 March, 7 days after the last frost on 14 March, so planting waits only for the week after that frost.

Last spring frost	14 March
Top 7 cm of soil at 15 °C	21 March, 7 days after the last frost
Into an unheated greenhouse	28 February – 16 July; February outside: -0.5 °C at night, 11.8 °C by day; card 16–27 °C
First autumn frost	5 November, 229 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	70
First harvest, if planted in this window	30 May – 24 September
Days left for picking	159
Daylight	10:02 on 28 January, 12:10 on 21 March
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 3 days; the driest month, July, has 0 rainy days

Tomato in Bukhara: care after planting

Planted on 21 March: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

21 March — feed: balanced (NPK)
18 April — 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 Bukhara during the tomato season

Days average above the tomato card's 16–27 °C in May–September (31.1–39.4 °C). Months that stay below 16 °C even by day on average: November (14.5 °C). Nights average below 16 °C in March, April and September–November (1–15.6 °C).

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
March	18.8	5.3	32	6	11:54
April	25.4	10.9	21	4	13:14
May	31.9	17.1	14	3	14:21
June	37.3	22	1	0	14:58
July	39.4	25.2	0	0	14:44
August	36.4	21.9	0	0	13:46
September	31.1	15.6	1	0	12:30
October	22.6	7.4	9	2	11:12
November	14.5	1	12	3	10:01

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Tomato in nearby cities

All the nearest cities on our list plant tomato later than Bukhara; the closest date is in Samarkand, 20 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Samarkand	218 km	10 April – 15 July	20 days later
Tashkent	441 km	16 April – 16 July	26 days later
Nukus	502 km	11 April – 13 July	21 days later
Turkistan	505 km	12 April – 13 July	22 days later
Shymkent	519 km	20 April – 16 July	30 days later
Kyzylorda	572 km	17 April – 30 June	27 days later

Where to buy tomato plants and seeds near Bukhara

Buy plants ready to set out from 21 March to 16 July (from 28 February to 16 July for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 7 January to 25 May. Within 15 km of Bukhara OpenStreetMap lists 13 markets (collected 27 October 2026).

Dilkusho bozorchasi — market
Dilkusho ko'chasi, Buxoro · 05:00–22:00 · 3 km
Family — market
sunrise–sunset · 4 km
Green Bazaar — market
0 km
Bozori Kord — 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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