When to plant tomatoes in Salzburg: 25 May – 11 July

In Salzburg, tomato: sow for seedlings from 13 March to 20 May; plant into a greenhouse from 4 May to 11 July; plant out into open ground from 25 May to 11 July. For plants and seeds, the places nearby include Blumen Lindner (garden centre, 5 km) and Gartencenter Posch (garden centre, 5 km); addresses and opening hours are below.

Tomato in Salzburg: soil, season and weather

In Salzburg the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 22 April, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 15 °C — the minimum on the tomato card — only around 25 May, 33 days later.

Last spring frost	22 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 15 °C	25 May, 33 days after the last frost
Into an unheated greenhouse	4 May – 11 July; May outside: 7.9 °C at night, 18.3 °C by day; card 16–27 °C
First autumn frost	31 October, 159 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	70
First harvest, if planted in this window	3 August – 19 September
Days left for picking	89
Daylight	12:56 on 3 April, 15:31 on 25 May
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 3 days; the driest month, October, has 13 rainy days

Tomato in Salzburg: care after planting

Planted on 25 May: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

25 May — feed: balanced (NPK)
22 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 Salzburg during the tomato season

No month of the season averages above the tomato card's 16–27 °C by day; the warmest, July, averages 24.4 °C. Nights average below 16 °C in every month of the season, from 6.4 °C to 14.5 °C.

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
May	18.3	7.9	174	19	15:08
June	23.8	13.3	139	16	15:59
July	24.4	14.4	170	18	15:39
August	24.3	14.5	193	17	14:20
September	20.1	10.4	142	14	12:38
October	16.3	6.4	112	13	10:55

ERA5 2016–2025, Open-Meteo

Tomato in nearby cities

Around Salzburg, Linz is 11 days earlier and Klagenfurt 42 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Linz	109 km	14 May – 23 July	11 days earlier
Munich	115 km	22 May – 20 July	3 days earlier
Innsbruck	136 km	10 June – 17 June	16 days later
Regensburg	151 km	22 May – 18 July	3 days earlier
Klagenfurt	163 km	6 July – 16 July	42 days later
České Budějovice	168 km	24 May – 17 July	1 day earlier

Where to buy tomato plants and seeds near Salzburg

Buy plants ready to set out from 25 May to 11 July (from 4 May to 11 July for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 13 March to 20 May. Within 15 km of Salzburg OpenStreetMap lists 20 garden centres, 2 farm-supply shops, 4 plant nurseries, 7 markets and 15 farm shops (collected 28 October 2026).

Lagerhaus — garden centre
Salzburger Straße 40, 5301 Eugendorf · Mon–Fri 08:00–18:00; Sat 08:00–16:00 · 9 km · salzburger-lagerhaus.at
Garten-Geräte Müllner — garden centre
Kastenhofstraße 4, 5411 Oberalm · Mon–Fri 08:00–18:00 · 12 km · garten-geraete.at
Gartencenter Posch — garden centre
Hauptstraße 53, 5071 Wals-Siezenheim · Mon–Fri 09:00–18:00; Sat 09:00–12:00 · 5 km · gartencenter-posch.at
Blumen Lindner — garden centre
Grenzstraße 25, 5071 Wals-Siezenheim · Mon–Fri 07:30–18:00; Sat 08:00–12:00 · 5 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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