Tomato Planting Dates in Northwest Territories: Counting Back From Your Frost Window
Work out your Northwest Territories tomato transplant date by counting from Yellowknife’s average May 25 last frost and September 18 first fall frost.
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Work out your Northwest Territories tomato transplant date by counting from Yellowknife’s average May 25 last frost and September 18 first fall frost.
Saskatoon’s mean frost dates set the 123-day season used here to rank named tomato cultivars by days to maturity and margin before fall frost.
Using Charlottetown’s average frost dates, this guide sorts fourteen catalogue tomato varieties by how much margin each leaves before the first fall frost.
Named tomato cultivars ranked by how many days of margin they leave before Rankin Inlet’s average first fall frost, from safest to riskiest.
Nova Scotia’s frost-free season runs about five months on average; this guide lists the tomato varieties, from 55-day cherries to 78-day slicers, that ripen inside it.
Blue Music is a Porcelain hardneck garlic that needs a real cold winter to divide, plus guidance on when to plant it and how it stores.
Bavarian Purple is a Rocambole hardneck garlic that needs a real cold winter to divide into cloves, and not every US climate delivers it.
Chesnok Red is a hardneck Purple Stripe garlic that needs real winter cold to divide into cloves, and warm climates need a workaround.
Unity is an indeterminate beefsteak tomato maturing in about 80 days from transplant, with high resistance to late blight, verticillium and fusarium wilt races 1.
Kuzco is a determinate paste tomato that ripens in one concentrated flush, and where you garden decides whether it beats the frost.