When to plant tomatoes in Worcester: 1 June – 2 August

In Worcester, tomato: sow for seedlings from 20 March to 11 June; plant into a greenhouse from 11 May to 2 August; plant out into open ground from 1 June to 2 August. For plants and seeds, the places nearby include David's Nurseries (garden centre, 6 km) and Clive's Fruit Farm (farm shop, 14 km); addresses and opening hours are below.

Tomato in Worcester: soil, season and weather

In Worcester 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 1 June, 47 days later.

Last spring frost	15 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 15 °C	1 June, 47 days after the last frost
Into an unheated greenhouse	11 May – 2 August; May outside: 7.7 °C at night, 16.8 °C by day; card 16–27 °C
First autumn frost	22 November, 174 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	70
First harvest, if planted in this window	10 August – 11 October
Days left for picking	104
Daylight	13:33 on 10 April, 16:25 on 1 June
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 3 days; the driest month, August, has 11 rainy days

Tomato in Worcester: care after planting

Planted on 1 June: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

1 June — feed: balanced (NPK)
29 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 Worcester during the tomato season

No month of the season averages above the tomato card's 16–27 °C by day; the warmest, July, averages 21.6 °C. Months that stay below 16 °C even by day on average: October (14.6 °C) and November (10.2 °C). Nights average below 16 °C in every month of the season, from 4.6 °C to 12.8 °C.

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
June	19.9	11	68	12	16:44
July	21.6	12.8	63	12	16:19
August	21.2	12.7	59	11	14:44
September	18.6	10.6	71	12	12:43
October	14.6	8.1	84	13	10:43
November	10.2	4.6	76	13	8:49

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Tomato in nearby cities

All the nearest cities on our list plant tomato earlier than Worcester; the closest date is in Stoke-on-Trent, 1 day earlier.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Birmingham	40 km	25 May – 30 July	7 days earlier
Coventry	54 km	28 May – 28 July	4 days earlier
Oxford	82 km	26 May – 3 August	6 days earlier
Bristol	86 km	28 May – 2 August	4 days earlier
Leicester	89 km	27 May – 30 July	5 days earlier
Stoke-on-Trent	93 km	31 May – 26 July	1 day earlier

Where to buy tomato plants and seeds near Worcester

Buy plants ready to set out from 1 June to 2 August (from 11 May to 2 August for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 20 March to 11 June. Within 15 km of Worcester OpenStreetMap lists 10 garden centres, 4 plant nurseries, 2 markets and 8 farm shops (collected 28 October 2026).

David's Nurseries — garden centre
Ash Lane, WR3 8TB Martin Hussingtree · Mon–Sat 09:00–17:30; Sun 10:00–16:00 · 6 km · cherry-lane.co.uk
Webbs of Wychbold — garden centre
Worcester Road, WR9 0DG Droitwich · Mon–Sat 09:00–18:00; Sun 10:00–16:30 · 15 km · webbsdirect.co.uk
Clive's Fruit Farm — farm shop
Upper Hook Road, WR8 0SA Worcester · 14 km · clivesfruitfarm.co.uk
Three Counties Produce — farm shop
Worcester Road, WR9 0DG Droitwich · 15 km · threecountiesproduce.co.uk

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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