When to plant tomatoes in Lorca: 20 March – 25 August

In Lorca, tomato: sow for seedlings from 6 January to 4 July; plant into a greenhouse from 27 February to 25 August; plant out into open ground from 20 March to 25 August.

Tomato in Lorca: soil, season and weather

In Lorca the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 20 January, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 15 °C — the minimum on the tomato card — only around 20 March, 59 days later.

Last spring frost	20 January
Top 7 cm of soil at 15 °C	20 March, 59 days after the last frost
Into an unheated greenhouse	27 February – 25 August; February outside: 5.2 °C at night, 17 °C by day; card 16–27 °C
First autumn frost	15 December, 270 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	70
First harvest, if planted in this window	29 May – 3 November
Days left for picking	200
Daylight	10:09 on 27 January, 12:07 on 20 March
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 3 days; the driest month, July, has 1 rainy day

Tomato in Lorca: care after planting

Planted on 20 March: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

20 March — feed: balanced (NPK)
17 April — 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 Lorca during the tomato season

Days average above the tomato card's 16–27 °C in June–September (28.5–34.1 °C). Nights average below 16 °C in March–May and October–December (5.3–12.9 °C).

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
March	18.4	6.8	66	9	11:55
April	20.9	9.1	42	7	13:09
May	25.3	12.7	32	5	14:11
June	30.5	17.2	13	3	14:45
July	34.1	20.1	3	1	14:32
August	33.6	20.2	10	2	13:39
September	28.5	16.8	54	6	12:28
October	24.5	12.9	38	5	11:16
November	18.8	7.9	30	5	10:10
December	16	5.3	32	4	9:35

ERA5 2016–2025, Open-Meteo

Tomato in nearby cities

Around Lorca, Elche is 18 days earlier and Granada 54 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Murcia	61 km	from 7 March	13 days earlier
Elche	109 km	from 2 March	18 days earlier
Albacete	146 km	29 April – 6 August	40 days later
Úbeda	151 km	13 April – 13 August	24 days later
Granada	177 km	13 May – 6 August	54 days later
Jaén	184 km	4 April – 27 August	15 days later

Where to buy tomato plants and seeds near Lorca

Buy plants ready to set out from 20 March to 25 August (from 27 February to 25 August for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 6 January to 4 July. Within 15 km of Lorca OpenStreetMap lists 1 plant nursery (collected 28 October 2026).

Semillero HOYAMAR — plant nursery
11 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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