When to plant tomatoes in Lublin: 21 May – 21 July

In Lublin, tomato: sow for seedlings from 9 March to 30 May; plant into a greenhouse from 30 April to 21 July; plant out into open ground from 21 May to 21 July. For plants and seeds, the places nearby include Zielone Hobby 1 (garden centre, 2 km) and Zielone Hobby 2 (garden centre, 6 km); addresses and opening hours are below.

Tomato in Lublin: soil, season and weather

In Lublin the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 18 April, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 15 °C — the minimum on the tomato card — only around 21 May, 33 days later.

Last spring frost	18 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 15 °C	21 May, 33 days after the last frost
Into an unheated greenhouse	30 April – 21 July; April outside: 4.1 °C at night, 13.7 °C by day; card 16–27 °C
First autumn frost	10 November, 173 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	70
First harvest, if planted in this window	30 July – 29 September
Days left for picking	103
Daylight	12:47 on 30 March, 15:50 on 21 May
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 3 days; the driest month, November, has 10 rainy days

Tomato in Lublin: care after planting

Planted on 21 May: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

21 May — feed: balanced (NPK)
18 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 Lublin during the tomato season

No month of the season averages above the tomato card's 16–27 °C by day; the warmest, August, averages 24.6 °C. Months that stay below 16 °C even by day on average: October (13.6 °C) and November (6.9 °C). Nights average below 16 °C in every month of the season, from 1.9 °C to 15 °C.

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
May	18.4	8.4	64	11	15:33
June	23.7	13.7	69	10	16:34
July	24.4	15	96	14	16:10
August	24.6	14.8	74	11	14:38
September	19.7	11	68	9	12:42
October	13.6	6.4	61	11	10:46
November	6.9	1.9	46	10	8:56

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Tomato in nearby cities

Around Lublin, Warsaw is 9 days earlier and Rzeszów 1 day later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Radom	100 km	13 May – 26 July	8 days earlier
Brest	122 km	14 May – 24 July	7 days earlier
Rzeszów	140 km	22 May – 26 July	1 day later
Kielce	142 km	22 May – 15 July	1 day later
Kovel	148 km	18 May – 21 July	3 days earlier
Warsaw	153 km	12 May – 28 July	9 days earlier

Where to buy tomato plants and seeds near Lublin

Buy plants ready to set out from 21 May to 21 July (from 30 April to 21 July for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 9 March to 30 May. Within 15 km of Lublin OpenStreetMap lists 15 garden centres, 3 farm-supply shops and 15 markets (collected 28 October 2026).

Floks.pl garden center — garden centre
Szkolna 2, 21-007 · Mon–Fri 08:00–17:00; Sat 08:00–14:00 · 13 km · floks.pl
Zielone Hobby 1 — garden centre
Choiny 1, 20-816 Lublin · 2 km · zielonehobby.com
Zielone Hobby 2 — garden centre
Abramowicka 43, 20-442 Lublin · 6 km · zielonehobby.com
Agro-Ogród. Sprzedaż i serwis urządzeń ogrodniczych — garden centre
Dominów 161, 20-388 Lublin · 9 km · agro-ogrod.eu

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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