When to plant tomatoes in Cahul: 4 May – 28 July

In Cahul, tomato: sow for seedlings from 20 February to 6 June; plant into a greenhouse from 13 April to 28 July; plant out into open ground from 4 May to 28 July.

Tomato in Cahul: soil, season and weather

In Cahul the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 4 April, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 15 °C — the minimum on the tomato card — only around 4 May, 30 days later.

Last spring frost	4 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 15 °C	4 May, 30 days after the last frost
Into an unheated greenhouse	13 April – 28 July; April outside: 5.8 °C at night, 16.7 °C by day; card 16–27 °C
First autumn frost	17 November, 197 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	70
First harvest, if planted in this window	13 July – 6 October
Days left for picking	127
Daylight	11:45 on 13 March, 14:27 on 4 May
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 3 days; the driest month, August, has 5 rainy days

Tomato in Cahul: care after planting

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

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

4 May — feed: balanced (NPK)
1 June — 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 Cahul during the tomato season

Days average above the tomato card's 16–27 °C in July (28.8 °C) and August (29.1 °C). Months that stay below 16 °C even by day on average: November (10 °C). Nights average below 16 °C in May and September–November (3–13.4 °C).

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
May	21.3	10.7	61	10	14:55
June	26.7	16.3	75	10	15:43
July	28.8	18.1	49	6	15:24
August	29.1	18	28	5	14:11
September	23.8	13.4	45	5	12:36
October	16.9	7.8	47	6	11:00
November	10	3	45	7	9:30

ERA5 2016–2025, Open-Meteo

Tomato in nearby cities

All the nearest cities on our list plant tomato earlier than Cahul; the closest date is in Chișinău, 1 day earlier.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Izmail	79 km	29 April – 4 August	5 days earlier
Chișinău	134 km	3 May – 28 July	1 day earlier
Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi	170 km	27 April – 6 August	7 days earlier
Odesa	205 km	2 May – 5 August	2 days earlier
Bălți	208 km	1 May – 11 July	3 days earlier
Bucharest	231 km	30 April – 30 July	4 days earlier

Where to buy tomato plants and seeds near Cahul

Buy plants ready to set out from 4 May to 28 July (from 13 April to 28 July for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 20 February to 6 June. Within 15 km of Cahul OpenStreetMap lists 1 market (collected 27 October 2026).

Piața Centrală — 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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