When to plant tomatoes in Plasencia: 16 April – 9 September

In Plasencia, tomato: sow for seedlings from 2 February to 19 July; plant into a greenhouse from 26 March to 9 September; plant out into open ground from 16 April to 9 September.

Tomato in Plasencia: soil, season and weather

In Plasencia the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 7 February, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 15 °C — the minimum on the tomato card — only around 16 April, 68 days later.

Last spring frost	7 February
Top 7 cm of soil at 15 °C	16 April, 68 days after the last frost
Into an unheated greenhouse	26 March – 9 September; March outside: 6.7 °C at night, 16.1 °C by day; card 16–27 °C
First autumn frost	30 December, 258 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	70
First harvest, if planted in this window	25 June – 18 November
Days left for picking	188
Daylight	11:01 on 23 February, 13:17 on 16 April
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 3 days; the driest month, July, has 1 rainy day

Tomato in Plasencia: care after planting

Planted on 16 April: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

16 April — feed: balanced (NPK)
14 May — 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 Plasencia during the tomato season

Days average above the tomato card's 16–27 °C in June–September (28.2–34.4 °C). Months that stay below 16 °C even by day on average: November (15.5 °C) and December (12.7 °C). Nights average below 16 °C in April, May and October–December (5.5–13.4 °C).

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
April	19.4	9.3	91	11	13:15
May	24.1	12.9	49	6	14:22
June	29.4	17.1	25	4	15:00
July	34.2	20.6	3	1	14:45
August	34.4	21.1	4	1	13:47
September	28.2	16.8	47	5	12:30
October	22.9	13.4	114	9	11:12
November	15.5	8	111	12	9:59
December	12.7	5.5	95	9	9:21

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Tomato in nearby cities

Around Plasencia, Castelo Branco is 14 days earlier and Guarda 23 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Cáceres	66 km	15 April – 3 September	1 day earlier
Talavera de la Reina	108 km	11 April – 28 August	5 days earlier
Salamanca	111 km	4 May – 3 August	18 days later
Guarda	115 km	9 May – 5 August	23 days later
Castelo Branco	122 km	2 April – 5 September	14 days earlier
Mérida (Spain)	125 km	8 April – 29 August	8 days earlier

Where to buy tomato plants and seeds near Plasencia

Buy plants ready to set out from 16 April to 9 September (from 26 March to 9 September for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 2 February to 19 July. Within 15 km of Plasencia OpenStreetMap lists 2 garden centres and 1 market (collected 28 October 2026).

Viveros Sor Valentina — garden centre
1 km
JARDINTEC Jardinería Técnica Norte Extremeña — garden centre
2 km
Plaza de Abastos — market
0 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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