When to plant tomatoes in Quetta: 19 March – 19 August

In Quetta, tomato: sow for seedlings from 5 January to 28 June; plant into a greenhouse from 26 February to 19 August; plant out into open ground from 19 March to 19 August.

Tomato in Quetta: soil, season and weather

In Quetta the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 13 February, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 15 °C — the minimum on the tomato card — only around 19 March, 34 days later.

Last spring frost	13 February
Top 7 cm of soil at 15 °C	19 March, 34 days after the last frost
Into an unheated greenhouse	26 February – 19 August; February outside: 2.4 °C at night, 13.9 °C by day; card 16–27 °C
First autumn frost	9 December, 265 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	70
First harvest, if planted in this window	28 May – 28 October
Days left for picking	195
Daylight	10:37 on 26 January, 12:05 on 19 March
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 3 days; the driest month, September, has 0 rainy days

Tomato in Quetta: care after planting

Planted on 19 March: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

19 March — feed: balanced (NPK)
16 April — 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 Quetta during the tomato season

Days average above the tomato card's 16–27 °C in May–September (30.2–35.2 °C). Months that stay below 16 °C even by day on average: December (13.3 °C). Nights average below 16 °C in March, April and September–December (2–15.5 °C).

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
March	18.3	6	50	8	11:57
April	25.1	11.5	24	4	12:53
May	30.2	16.2	4	1	13:40
June	34.3	19	3	1	14:05
July	35.2	20.7	7	2	13:55
August	33.2	19	24	3	13:16
September	30.7	15.5	1	0	12:22
October	24.2	10.5	2	1	11:28
November	17.5	5.4	10	2	10:39
December	13.3	2	11	2	10:13

ERA5 2016–2025, Open-Meteo

Tomato in nearby cities

Around Quetta, Peshawar is 22 days earlier and Tashkent 28 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Peshawar	602 km	from 25 February	22 days earlier
Islamabad	689 km	from 22 March	3 days later
Murree	728 km	22 March – 29 August	3 days later
Samarkand	1,051 km	10 April – 15 July	22 days later
Bukhara	1,090 km	21 March – 16 July	2 days later
Tashkent	1,250 km	16 April – 16 July	28 days later

Where to buy tomato plants and seeds near Quetta

Buy plants ready to set out from 19 March to 19 August (from 26 February to 19 August for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 5 January to 28 June. Within 15 km of Quetta OpenStreetMap lists 18 markets (collected 28 October 2026).

Achakzai Mobile Market — market
Liaquat Bazar, 87300 Quetta · 1 km
Vegetable Market Hazarganji — market
Hazarganji Road, 87300 Quetta · 15 km
PopulZai PLaZa — market
جناح روڈ, 87300 Quetta · 1 km
قالین مارکیٹ — market
Double Road, 87300 quetta · 3 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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