When to plant tomatoes in Sheffield: 4 June – 2 August

In Sheffield, tomato: sow for seedlings from 23 March to 11 June; plant into a greenhouse from 14 May to 2 August; plant out into open ground from 4 June to 2 August. For plants and seeds, the places nearby include Birley Moor Garden Centre (garden centre, 7 km) and Langlands Garden Centre (garden centre, 7 km); addresses and opening hours are below.

Tomato in Sheffield: soil, season and weather

In Sheffield the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 15 April, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 15 °C — the minimum on the tomato card — only around 4 June, 50 days later.

Last spring frost	15 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 15 °C	4 June, 50 days after the last frost
Into an unheated greenhouse	14 May – 2 August; May outside: 7.4 °C at night, 15.4 °C by day; card 16–27 °C
First autumn frost	22 November, 171 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	70
First harvest, if planted in this window	13 August – 11 October
Days left for picking	101
Daylight	13:49 on 13 April, 16:44 on 4 June
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 3 days; the driest month, August, has 13 rainy days

Tomato in Sheffield: care after planting

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

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

4 June — feed: balanced (NPK)
2 July — 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 Sheffield during the tomato season

No month of the season averages above the tomato card's 16–27 °C by day; the warmest, July, averages 19.8 °C. Months that stay below 16 °C even by day on average: October (13.2 °C) and November (9 °C). Nights average below 16 °C in every month of the season, from 4.4 °C to 12.5 °C.

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
June	18.3	10.4	78	13	16:59
July	19.8	12.5	79	15	16:32
August	19.3	12.4	68	13	14:51
September	17	10.4	84	13	12:45
October	13.2	7.9	95	15	10:40
November	9	4.4	88	14	8:40

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Tomato in nearby cities

All the nearest cities on our list plant tomato earlier than Sheffield; the closest date is in Derby, 2 days earlier.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Leeds	47 km	29 May – 3 August	6 days earlier
Bradford	49 km	29 May – 29 July	6 days earlier
Derby	51 km	2 June – 2 August	2 days earlier
Manchester	52 km	27 May – 25 July	8 days earlier
Nottingham	52 km	26 May – 3 August	9 days earlier
Stoke-on-Trent	61 km	31 May – 26 July	4 days earlier

Where to buy tomato plants and seeds near Sheffield

Buy plants ready to set out from 4 June to 2 August (from 14 May to 2 August for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 23 March to 11 June. Within 15 km of Sheffield OpenStreetMap lists 23 garden centres, 2 plant nurseries, 11 markets and 8 farm shops (collected 20 October 2026).

Millthorpe Nursery — garden centre
Millthorpe Lane, S18 7SA Dronfield · 11 km · millthorpe-nursery.co.uk
Wentworth Garden Centre — garden centre
Hague Lane, S62 7TF Rotherham · 11 km · wentworthgardencentre.co.uk
Birley Moor Garden Centre — garden centre
Moor Valley 27, S20 5BB Sheffield · 7 km
Langlands Garden Centre — garden centre
West Lane, S6 6SN Sheffield · 7 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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