When to plant tomatoes in Cherepovets: 3 June – 27 June

In Cherepovets, tomato: sow for seedlings from 22 March to 6 May; plant into a greenhouse from 13 May to 27 June; plant out into open ground from 3 June to 27 June. For plants and seeds, the places nearby include Тоншаловский (plant nursery, 7 km) and Зеленый мир (garden centre, 9 km); addresses and opening hours are below.

Tomato in Cherepovets: soil, season and weather

In Cherepovets the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 11 May, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 15 °C — the minimum on the tomato card — only around 3 June, 23 days later.

Last spring frost	11 May
Top 7 cm of soil at 15 °C	3 June, 23 days after the last frost
Into an unheated greenhouse	13 May – 27 June; May outside: 4.8 °C at night, 15.2 °C by day; card 16–27 °C
First autumn frost	17 October, 136 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	70
First harvest, if planted in this window	12 August – 5 September
Days left for picking	66
Daylight	14:11 on 12 April, 18:06 on 3 June
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 3 days; the driest month, June, has 12 rainy days

Tomato in Cherepovets: care after planting

Planted on 3 June: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

3 June — feed: balanced (NPK)
1 July — 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 Cherepovets during the tomato season

No month of the season averages above the tomato card's 16–27 °C by day; the warmest, July, averages 22.2 °C. Months that stay below 16 °C even by day on average: September (14.7 °C) and October (7.1 °C). Nights average below 16 °C in every month of the season, from 1.9 °C to 13.3 °C.

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
June	20.1	10.4	75	12	18:30
July	22.2	13.3	100	16	17:51
August	20.7	12	81	13	15:34
September	14.7	7.6	76	11	12:55
October	7.1	1.9	77	14	10:19

ERA5 2016–2025, Open-Meteo

Tomato in nearby cities

Around Cherepovets, Ivanovo is 8 days earlier and Petrozavodsk 18 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Vologda	113 km	27 May – 20 June	7 days earlier
Yaroslavl	202 km	27 May – 20 June	7 days earlier
Kostroma	232 km	28 May – 21 June	6 days earlier
Tver	279 km	27 May – 20 June	7 days earlier
Ivanovo	298 km	26 May – 21 June	8 days earlier
Petrozavodsk	353 km	21 June – 27 June	18 days later

Where to buy tomato plants and seeds near Cherepovets

Buy plants ready to set out from 3 June to 27 June (from 13 May to 27 June for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 22 March to 6 May. Within 15 km of Cherepovets OpenStreetMap lists 3 garden centres, 1 plant nursery, 2 markets and 2 farm shops (collected 27 October 2026).

Зеленый мир — garden centre
д. Борисово, 162600 Череповец · Mon–Sat 09:00–19:00; Sun 09:00–17:00 · 9 km
Тоншаловский — plant nursery
Рабочая улица 2А, 162677 Тоншалово · 7 km · tonshalovsky.ru
Городской рынок — market
улица М.Горького 30, Череповец · 1 km
дикси — market
Юбилейная улица 28, Череповец · 6 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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