When to plant tomatoes in Dresden: 25 May – 29 July

In Dresden, tomato: sow for seedlings from 13 March to 7 June; plant into a greenhouse from 4 May to 29 July; plant out into open ground from 25 May to 29 July. For plants and seeds, the places nearby include Dehner (garden centre, 4 km) and Blumenpavillon Rentzsch (garden centre, 5 km); addresses and opening hours are below.

Tomato in Dresden: soil, season and weather

In Dresden the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 16 April, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 15 °C — the minimum on the tomato card — only around 25 May, 39 days later.

Last spring frost	16 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 15 °C	25 May, 39 days after the last frost
Into an unheated greenhouse	4 May – 29 July; May outside: 8.5 °C at night, 18.4 °C by day; card 16–27 °C
First autumn frost	18 November, 177 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	70
First harvest, if planted in this window	3 August – 7 October
Days left for picking	107
Daylight	13:02 on 3 April, 15:58 on 25 May
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 3 days; the driest month, November, has 11 rainy days

Tomato in Dresden: care after planting

Planted on 25 May: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

25 May — feed: balanced (NPK)
22 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 Dresden during the tomato season

No month of the season averages above the tomato card's 16–27 °C by day; the warmest, August, averages 24.9 °C. Months that stay below 16 °C even by day on average: October (15.2 °C) and November (8.6 °C). Nights average below 16 °C in every month of the season, from 2.6 °C to 14.9 °C.

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
May	18.4	8.5	53	10	15:32
June	24.1	13.7	65	12	16:31
July	24.8	14.8	72	12	16:08
August	24.9	14.9	65	11	14:37
September	20.6	11.3	68	10	12:42
October	15.2	7.8	70	13	10:47
November	8.6	2.6	49	11	8:57

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Tomato in nearby cities

Around Dresden, Prague is 13 days earlier and Ústí nad Labem 10 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Ústí nad Labem	48 km	4 June – 23 July	10 days later
Liberec	98 km	31 May – 12 July	6 days later
Leipzig	101 km	15 May – 28 July	10 days earlier
Prague	119 km	12 May – 19 July	13 days earlier
Plzeň	147 km	26 May – 16 July	1 day later
Potsdam	157 km	14 May – 1 August	11 days earlier

Where to buy tomato plants and seeds near Dresden

Buy plants ready to set out from 25 May to 29 July (from 4 May to 29 July for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 13 March to 7 June. Within 15 km of Dresden OpenStreetMap lists 20 garden centres, 2 farm-supply shops, 12 plant nurseries, 23 markets and 34 farm shops (collected 28 October 2026).

Dehner — garden centre
Washingtonstraße 61, 01139 Dresden · Mon–Sat 09:00–19:00 · 4 km · dehner.de
Blumenpavillon Rentzsch — garden centre
Döbelner Straße 34, 01129 Dresden · Mon–Fri 08:00–18:00, Sat 08:00–12:00 · 5 km · galabau-rentzsch.de
Gärtnerei Bertholdt — garden centre
Am Lehmberg 35, 01157 Dresden · Mon–Fri 10:00–18:00; Sat 09:00–12:00 · 5 km · gaertnerei-bertholdt.de
Dehner — garden centre
Marienberger Straße 61, 01279 Dresden · Mon–Sat 09:00–19:00 · 6 km · dehner.de

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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