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

In Pardubice, 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 Šprojcarovo zahradnictví (garden centre, 2 km) and Zahradnictví Synek (garden centre, 2 km); addresses and opening hours are below.

Tomato in Pardubice: soil, season and weather

In Pardubice the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 16 April, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 15 °C — the minimum on the tomato card — only around 21 May, 35 days later.

Last spring frost	16 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 15 °C	21 May, 35 days after the last frost
Into an unheated greenhouse	30 April – 21 July; April outside: 4.1 °C at night, 14.5 °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	12:45 on 30 March, 15:40 on 21 May
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 3 days; the driest month, November, has 9 rainy days

Tomato in Pardubice: 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 Pardubice 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 °C) and November (8.1 °C). Nights average below 16 °C in every month of the season, from 2.1 °C to 14.8 °C.

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
May	18.7	8.5	69	13	15:24
June	24.1	13.4	74	12	16:21
July	25.1	14.7	74	12	15:58
August	25.2	14.8	88	10	14:31
September	20.7	11.1	83	10	12:41
October	15	7	59	11	10:49
November	8.1	2.1	47	9	9:04

ERA5 2016–2025, Open-Meteo

Tomato in nearby cities

Around Pardubice, Prague is 9 days earlier and Ústí nad Labem 14 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Hradec Králové	19 km	21 May – 22 July	same day
Prague	96 km	12 May – 19 July	9 days earlier
Liberec	96 km	31 May – 12 July	10 days later
Brno	111 km	26 May – 17 July	5 days later
Olomouc	117 km	17 May – 17 July	4 days earlier
Ústí nad Labem	142 km	4 June – 23 July	14 days later

Where to buy tomato plants and seeds near Pardubice

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 Pardubice OpenStreetMap lists 10 garden centres, 1 farm-supply shop, 1 market and 1 farm shop (collected 28 October 2026).

Školky Alej s.r.o. — garden centre
Klešice 1, 53803 · Mon–Fri 07:00–15:30 · 11 km · zahradnictvicerny.cz
Šprojcarovo zahradnictví — garden centre
Luční 1163, 53003 Pardubice · 2 km
Zahradnictví Synek — garden centre
Kunětická 27, 53009 Pardubice · 2 km · synsy.cz
AZ GARDEN — garden centre
Staročernská 200, 53002 Pardubice - Černá za Bory · 4 km · azgarden.cz

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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