When to plant tomatoes in Nuremberg: 14 May – 14 July

In Nuremberg, tomato: sow for seedlings from 2 March to 23 May; plant into a greenhouse from 23 April to 14 July; plant out into open ground from 14 May to 14 July. For plants and seeds, the places nearby include Dehner (garden centre, 5 km) and Gärtnerei Ascher (garden centre, 9 km); addresses and opening hours are below.

Tomato in Nuremberg: soil, season and weather

In Nuremberg the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 29 April, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 15 °C — the minimum on the tomato card — only around 14 May, 15 days later.

Last spring frost	29 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 15 °C	14 May, 15 days after the last frost
Into an unheated greenhouse	23 April – 14 July; April outside: 3.6 °C at night, 14.9 °C by day; card 16–27 °C
First autumn frost	3 November, 173 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	70
First harvest, if planted in this window	23 July – 22 September
Days left for picking	103
Daylight	12:19 on 23 March, 15:17 on 14 May
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 3 days; the driest month, November, has 11 rainy days

Tomato in Nuremberg: care after planting

Planted on 14 May: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

14 May — feed: balanced (NPK)
11 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 Nuremberg during the tomato season

No month of the season averages above the tomato card's 16–27 °C by day; the warmest, August, averages 25.2 °C. Months that stay below 16 °C even by day on average: October (15.2 °C) and November (8.2 °C). Nights average below 16 °C in every month of the season, from 1.6 °C to 14 °C.

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
May	19	8.1	69	12	15:19
June	24.4	13	66	11	16:15
July	25.1	13.9	80	13	15:53
August	25.2	14	81	11	14:28
September	20.6	10.2	62	10	12:40
October	15.2	6.5	65	12	10:51
November	8.2	1.6	57	11	9:08

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Tomato in nearby cities

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

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Regensburg	89 km	22 May – 18 July	8 days later
Augsburg	121 km	30 May – 20 July	16 days later
Munich	150 km	22 May – 20 July	8 days later
Stuttgart	157 km	18 May – 19 July	4 days later
Plzeň	169 km	26 May – 16 July	12 days later
Erfurt	170 km	15 May – 18 July	1 day later

Where to buy tomato plants and seeds near Nuremberg

Buy plants ready to set out from 14 May to 14 July (from 23 April to 14 July for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 2 March to 23 May. Within 15 km of Nuremberg OpenStreetMap lists 28 garden centres, 1 farm-supply shop, 2 plant nurseries, 15 markets and 52 farm shops (collected 28 October 2026).

Dehner — garden centre
Happurger Straße 2, 90482 Nürnberg · Mon–Sat 09:00–19:00 · 5 km · dehner.de
Gärtnerei Ascher — garden centre
Jahnstraße 10, 90522 Oberasbach · Mon–Fri 08:00–18:00; Sat 08:00–13:00 · 9 km · blumen-ascher.de
Dehner — garden centre
Cumianastraße 7, 91058 Erlangen · Mon–Sat 09:00–19:00 · 15 km · dehner.de
GartenBaumschule Menger — garden centre
Baumschulenweg 15, 91058 Erlangen · Feb Mon–Fri 09:00–17:00; Feb Sat closed; Mar–Oct Mon–Fri 09:00–18:00; Mar–Oct Sat 09:00–14:00; Nov–Dec Mon–Fri 09:00–17:00; Nov–Dec Sat 10:00–13:00; Dec 24–Jan 31 closed · 16 km · menger-pflanzen.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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