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.
Your frost and zone
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1 of 109 crops in the folio
Vegetable · Seed
Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus
Below zone 8 this is a pot you can bring in, not a permanent bed.
A long indoor start. In cold counties treat it as an annual, or mulch the crown hard.
Start indoors 8–10 weeks before last frost. Transplant 1–3 weeks after last frost.
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