When to plant tomatoes in Pisa: 30 May – 29 July

In Pisa, tomato: sow for seedlings from 18 March to 7 June; plant into a greenhouse from 9 May to 29 July; plant out into open ground from 30 May to 29 July. For plants and seeds, the places nearby include Verderame (garden centre, 2 km) and Falorni Ortoflorovivaistica (garden centre, 5 km); addresses and opening hours are below.

Tomato in Pisa: soil, season and weather

In Pisa the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 9 April, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 15 °C — the minimum on the tomato card — only around 30 May, 51 days later.

Last spring frost	9 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 15 °C	30 May, 51 days after the last frost
Into an unheated greenhouse	9 May – 29 July; May outside: 7.9 °C at night, 17.7 °C by day; card 16–27 °C
First autumn frost	18 November, 172 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	70
First harvest, if planted in this window	8 August – 7 October
Days left for picking	102
Daylight	13:04 on 8 April, 15:10 on 30 May
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 3 days; the driest month, July, has 5 rainy days

Tomato in Pisa: care after planting

Planted on 30 May: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

30 May — feed: balanced (NPK)
27 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 Pisa during the tomato season

No month of the season averages above the tomato card's 16–27 °C by day; the warmest, August, averages 26.7 °C. Months that stay below 16 °C even by day on average: November (11.3 °C). Nights average below 16 °C in every month of the season, from 2.9 °C to 15 °C.

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
May	17.7	7.9	117	13	14:42
June	23	12.5	65	8	15:26
July	25.9	14.9	31	5	15:09
August	26.7	15	70	7	14:01
September	21.9	11.3	143	11	12:33
October	17.1	7.6	169	12	11:04
November	11.3	2.9	177	14	9:42

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Tomato in nearby cities

All the nearest cities on our list plant tomato earlier than Pisa; the closest date is in Florence, 27 days earlier.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Livorno	20 km	from 20 April	40 days earlier
Florence	69 km	3 May – 7 August	27 days earlier
Siena	87 km	22 April – 7 August	38 days earlier
Modena	113 km	19 April – 10 August	41 days earlier
Bologna	115 km	18 April – 9 August	42 days earlier
Parma	121 km	22 April – 9 August	38 days earlier

Where to buy tomato plants and seeds near Pisa

Buy plants ready to set out from 30 May to 29 July (from 9 May to 29 July for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 18 March to 7 June. Within 15 km of Pisa OpenStreetMap lists 12 garden centres, 9 farm-supply shops and 1 farm shop (collected 27 October 2026).

Verderame — garden centre
Via Fiorentina 218a, 56121 Pisa · 2 km · verderamesrl.com
Falorni Ortoflorovivaistica — garden centre
Via Provinciale Vicarese 289 · 5 km
Il Giardino — garden centre
Via Camilla Ravera 121 · 7 km
Agrimacchine Burba — farm supply
Via di Bracciolo 3, 56019 Vecchiano · Mon–Fri 08:30–12:30, 15:00–19:00; Sat 09:00–13:00 · 9 km · agrimacchineburba.it

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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