When to plant tomatoes in Chita: 11 June – 15 July

In Chita, tomato: sow for seedlings from 30 March to 24 May; plant into a greenhouse from 21 May to 15 July; plant out into open ground from 11 June to 15 July. For plants and seeds, the places nearby include Нарасхват (farm shop, 9 km) and Продуктовый магазин (farm shop, 16 km); addresses and opening hours are below.

Tomato in Chita: soil, season and weather

In Chita the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 19 May, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 15 °C — the minimum on the tomato card — only around 11 June, 23 days later. 104 days separate planting out (11 June) from the first autumn frost (23 September); the card's 70 days to the first harvest leave 34 for picking, so a start 4 weeks late would still fit.

Last spring frost	19 May
Top 7 cm of soil at 15 °C	11 June, 23 days after the last frost
Into an unheated greenhouse	21 May – 15 July; May outside: 2.9 °C at night, 16.5 °C by day; card 16–27 °C
First autumn frost	23 September, 104 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	70
First harvest, if planted in this window	20 August – 23 September
Days left for picking	34
Daylight	14:11 on 20 April, 16:39 on 11 June
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 3 days; the driest month, June, has 10 rainy days

Tomato in Chita: care after planting

Planted on 11 June: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

11 June — feed: balanced (NPK)
9 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 Chita during the tomato season

No month of the season averages above the tomato card's 16–27 °C by day; the warmest, July, averages 25.1 °C. Months that stay below 16 °C even by day on average: September (15.3 °C). Nights average below 16 °C in every month of the season, from 4.9 °C to 14.3 °C.

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
June	23.5	10.9	52	10	16:42
July	25.1	14.3	109	11	16:17
August	21.6	11.6	88	11	14:43
September	15.3	4.9	61	9	12:43

ERA5 2016–2025, Open-Meteo

Tomato in nearby cities

Around Chita, Irkutsk is 16 days earlier and Yakutsk 5 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Ulan-Ude	404 km	2 June – 9 June	9 days earlier
Irkutsk	627 km	26 May – 10 June	16 days earlier
Blagoveshchensk	997 km	7 June – 13 June	4 days earlier
Krasnoyarsk	1,412 km	10 June – 19 July	1 day earlier
Yakutsk	1,474 km	16 June – 10 July	5 days later
Khabarovsk	1,579 km	29 May – 26 June	13 days earlier

Where to buy tomato plants and seeds near Chita

Buy plants ready to set out from 11 June to 15 July (from 21 May to 15 July for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 30 March to 24 May. Within 15 km of Chita OpenStreetMap lists 5 markets and 2 farm shops (collected 27 October 2026).

Витэн — market
улица Чкалова 1А · 3 km
Каштакский — market
Mon–Fri 08:30–20:00 · 5 km
Продуктовый магазин — farm shop
Ленская улица 40А · 16 km
Нарасхват — farm shop
Mon–Sun 09:00–21:00 · 9 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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