Greenly Garden

When to plant tomatoes in Russia: 21 April – 24 August

Tomato in Russia: plant out into open ground from 21 April to 24 August; the window opens earliest in Astrakhan and closes latest in Sochi (76 cities).

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.

Planting window by climate zone

Tomato: the window in each city

CityWindowZone
Astrakhan21 April – 22 July210–269 frost-free days
Makhachkala25 April – 20 August270 frost-free days or more
Krasnodar30 April – 29 July210–269 frost-free days
Sochi1 May – 24 August270 frost-free days or more
Volgograd1 May – 9 July150–209 frost-free days
Taganrog2 May – 26 July210–269 frost-free days
Novorossiysk3 May – 6 August210–269 frost-free days
Rostov-on-Don5 May – 20 July210–269 frost-free days
Stavropol5 May – 12 July210–269 frost-free days
Belgorod8 May – 30 June150–209 frost-free days
Stary Oskol8 May – 2 July150–209 frost-free days
Saratov9 May – 6 July150–209 frost-free days
Lipetsk11 May – 27 June150–209 frost-free days
Tambov11 May – 29 June150–209 frost-free days
Tolyatti11 May – 3 July150–209 frost-free days
Orenburg15 May – 21 June150–209 frost-free days
Samara15 May – 1 July150–209 frost-free days
Ulyanovsk15 May – 3 July150–209 frost-free days
Voronezh15 May – 9 July150–209 frost-free days
Kursk16 May – 1 July150–209 frost-free days
Ufa17 May – 11 June150–209 frost-free days
Nalchik20 May – 14 July150–209 frost-free days
Penza20 May – 25 June150–209 frost-free days
Kazan22 May – 23 June150–209 frost-free days
Moscow22 May – 24 June150–209 frost-free days
Kaliningrad23 May – 25 July150–209 frost-free days
Omsk23 May – 8 JuneShort season: under 150 frost-free days
Ryazan23 May – 3 July150–209 frost-free days
Saransk23 May – 24 June150–209 frost-free days
Chelyabinsk24 May – 14 June150–209 frost-free days
Naberezhnye Chelny24 May – 20 June150–209 frost-free days
Barnaul25 May – 9 JuneShort season: under 150 frost-free days
Bryansk25 May – 30 June150–209 frost-free days
Izhevsk25 May – 13 June150–209 frost-free days
Kaluga25 May – 21 June150–209 frost-free days
Oryol25 May – 26 June150–209 frost-free days
Irkutsk26 May – 10 JuneShort season: under 150 frost-free days
Ivanovo26 May – 21 June150–209 frost-free days
Magnitogorsk26 May – 6 JuneShort season: under 150 frost-free days
Vladimir26 May – 25 June150–209 frost-free days
Cheboksary27 May – 27 June150–209 frost-free days
Nizhny Novgorod27 May – 28 June150–209 frost-free days
Pskov27 May – 29 June150–209 frost-free days
Sterlitamak27 May – 16 June150–209 frost-free days
Tula27 May – 25 June150–209 frost-free days
Tver27 May – 20 June150–209 frost-free days
Veliky Novgorod27 May – 29 June150–209 frost-free days
Vologda27 May – 20 June150–209 frost-free days
Yaroslavl27 May – 20 June150–209 frost-free days
Kostroma28 May – 21 June150–209 frost-free days
Saint Petersburg28 May – 30 June150–209 frost-free days
Yekaterinburg28 May – 8 JuneShort season: under 150 frost-free days
Yoshkar-Ola28 May – 22 June150–209 frost-free days
Khabarovsk29 May – 26 June150–209 frost-free days
Kurgan29 May – 11 June150–209 frost-free days
Novosibirsk29 May – 8 JuneShort season: under 150 frost-free days
Smolensk29 May – 22 June150–209 frost-free days
Tyumen29 May – 11 JuneShort season: under 150 frost-free days
Kemerovo31 May – 6 JuneShort season: under 150 frost-free days
Kirov1 June – 12 JuneShort season: under 150 frost-free days
Vladikavkaz1 June – 2 July150–209 frost-free days
Ulan-Ude2 June – 9 JuneShort season: under 150 frost-free days
Cherepovets3 June – 27 June150–209 frost-free days
Perm3 June – 12 JuneShort season: under 150 frost-free days
Novokuznetsk5 June – 10 JuneShort season: under 150 frost-free days
Tomsk6 June – 7 JuneShort season: under 150 frost-free days
Blagoveshchensk7 June – 13 June150–209 frost-free days
Syktyvkar7 June – 12 JuneShort season: under 150 frost-free days
Arkhangelsk8 June – 18 JuneShort season: under 150 frost-free days
Krasnoyarsk10 June – 19 JulyShort season: under 150 frost-free days
Chita11 June – 15 JulyShort season: under 150 frost-free days
Surgut14 June – 20 JulyShort season: under 150 frost-free days
Vladivostok16 June – 16 July210–269 frost-free days
Yakutsk16 June – 10 JulyShort season: under 150 frost-free days
Petrozavodsk21 June – 27 June150–209 frost-free days
Murmansk16 July – 25 JulyShort season: under 150 frost-free days