When to plant tomatoes in Liverpool: 26 May – 6 August

In Liverpool, tomato: sow for seedlings from 14 March to 15 June; plant into a greenhouse from 5 May to 6 August; plant out into open ground from 26 May to 6 August. For plants and seeds, the places nearby include Fowler's Gardens Limited (garden centre, 11 km) and Whitakers Garden Center (garden centre, 12 km); addresses and opening hours are below.

Tomato in Liverpool: soil, season and weather

In Liverpool the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 1 April, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 15 °C — the minimum on the tomato card — only around 26 May, 55 days later.

Last spring frost	1 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 15 °C	26 May, 55 days after the last frost
Into an unheated greenhouse	5 May – 6 August; May outside: 8.4 °C at night, 15.9 °C by day; card 16–27 °C
First autumn frost	26 November, 184 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	70
First harvest, if planted in this window	4 August – 15 October
Days left for picking	114
Daylight	13:12 on 4 April, 16:24 on 26 May
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 3 days; the driest month, May, has 13 rainy days

Tomato in Liverpool: care after planting

Planted on 26 May: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

26 May — feed: balanced (NPK)
23 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 Liverpool during the tomato season

No month of the season averages above the tomato card's 16–27 °C by day; the warmest, July, averages 19.3 °C. Months that stay below 16 °C even by day on average: May (15.9 °C), October (14 °C) and November (10.1 °C). Nights average below 16 °C in every month of the season, from 5.5 °C to 13.4 °C.

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
May	15.9	8.4	64	13	15:52
June	18.5	11.6	97	16	16:59
July	19.3	13.4	110	18	16:32
August	19.3	13.4	98	17	14:51
September	17.4	11.4	121	16	12:45
October	14	8.9	106	17	10:40
November	10.1	5.5	116	18	8:40

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Tomato in nearby cities

All the nearest cities on our list plant tomato later than Liverpool; the closest date is in Manchester, 1 day later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Wrexham	40 km	5 June – 3 August	10 days later
Manchester	50 km	27 May – 25 July	1 day later
Stoke-on-Trent	68 km	31 May – 26 July	5 days later
Bradford	92 km	29 May – 29 July	3 days later
Sheffield	100 km	4 June – 2 August	9 days later
Leeds	104 km	29 May – 3 August	3 days later

Where to buy tomato plants and seeds near Liverpool

Buy plants ready to set out from 26 May to 6 August (from 5 May to 6 August for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 14 March to 15 June. Within 15 km of Liverpool OpenStreetMap lists 21 garden centres, 5 plant nurseries, 9 markets and 3 farm shops (collected 20 October 2026).

Fowler's Gardens Limited — garden centre
Webber Road 7, L33 7SW · Mon–Fri 08:00–18:00 · 11 km · fowlerlandscapeconstruction.com
Whitakers Garden Center — garden centre
Manchester Road, L34 5UD Prescot · Mon–Sat 09:00–17:30, Sun 10:00–16:30 · 12 km · whitakersgardencentre.co.uk
Garden World at Home Bargains — garden centre
Prescot Park Way, L34 1AA · Mon–Sat 08:00–21:00; Sun 11:00–17:00 · 12 km · storelocator.home.bargains
Equip2garden — garden centre
Birchill Road, L33 7TD · Mon–Fri 07:30–16:00 · 12 km · equip2garden.co.uk

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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