When to plant tomatoes in Mobile: 31 January – 25 August

In Mobile, tomato: sow for seedlings from 19 November to 4 July; plant into a greenhouse from 10 January to 25 August; plant out into open ground from 31 January to 25 August. For plants and seeds, the places nearby include Stokley Garden Express Midtown (garden centre, 3 km); addresses and opening hours are below.

Tomato in Mobile: soil, season and weather

In Mobile frost, not soil, sets the date: the top 7 cm of soil warms to 15 °C — the minimum on the tomato card — around 28 January, 4 days after the last frost on 24 January, so planting waits only for the week after that frost.

Last spring frost	24 January
Top 7 cm of soil at 15 °C	28 January, 4 days after the last frost
Into an unheated greenhouse	10 January – 25 August; January outside: 6.8 °C at night, 15.9 °C by day; card 16–27 °C
First autumn frost	15 December, 318 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	70
First harvest, if planted in this window	11 April – 3 November
Days left for picking	248
Daylight	10:13 on 10 December, 10:42 on 31 January
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 3 days; the driest month, November, has 7 rainy days

Tomato in Mobile: care after planting

Planted on 31 January: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

31 January — feed: balanced (NPK)
28 February — 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 Mobile during the tomato season

Days average above the tomato card's 16–27 °C in May–October (27.1–32.1 °C). Months that stay below 16 °C even by day on average: January (15.9 °C). Nights average below 16 °C in November–April (6.8–15.3 °C).

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
January	15.9	6.8	149	10	10:22
February	19.4	10.4	105	10	11:06
March	22	13	126	12	11:57
April	24.6	15.3	122	10	12:54
May	28.5	19.7	157	12	13:42
June	31.1	23.1	173	19	14:07
July	31.7	24.5	165	22	13:57
August	32.1	24.4	178	20	13:17
September	30.6	22.2	121	11	12:23
October	27.1	17.5	90	7	11:28
November	21.6	12	75	7	10:37
December	18	9.3	156	11	10:11

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Tomato in nearby cities

Around Mobile, New Orleans is 2 days earlier and Montgomery 36 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Pensacola	89 km	2 February – 29 August	2 days later
Gulfport	99 km	14 February – 4 August	14 days later
New Orleans	206 km	29 January – 25 August	2 days earlier
Montgomery	255 km	8 March – 9 August	36 days later
Jackson	268 km	3 March – 8 August	31 days later
Baton Rouge	296 km	13 February – 19 August	13 days later

Where to buy tomato plants and seeds near Mobile

Buy plants ready to set out from 31 January to 25 August (from 10 January to 25 August for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 19 November to 4 July. Within 15 km of Mobile OpenStreetMap lists 1 garden centre, 2 plant nurseries, 2 markets and 1 farm shop (collected 28 October 2026).

Stokley Garden Express Midtown — garden centre
Government Street 1451, 36604 Mobile · 3 km
D&J Barnhill Nursery — plant nursery
13 km
Flowerwood Nursery — plant nursery
13 km
M & J Groceries — market
7 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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