Part XV
Give a last frost date and a USDA zone. The folio returns when to start indoors, transplant, or sow outdoors — vegetables, herbs, flowers, and fruit.
Typical last frost for 6b is the date we filled in. A ridge runs colder than a hollow — treat the week as a window, not a promise. Soil temperature still rules a bean.
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2 of 109 crops in the folio
Fruit · Dormant stock
Malus domestica
Dormant whip in late winter. Two varieties for pollen. Seed is a lottery, not a cultivar.
Plant dormant stock 2–6 weeks before last frost. Soil about 40°F before anything goes in the ground.
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Fruit · Crown
Ananas comosus
Below zone 10 this is a pot you can bring in, not a permanent bed.
Twist the crown off a ripe fruit, dry a day, pot. Years, not weeks, to a second fruit.
Start indoors 0–8 weeks before last frost. Transplant 4–8 weeks after last frost.
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