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
East Tennessee hill country. Dates persist on this device until you sign in. Sign in to sync
4 of 109 crops in the folio
Fruit · Cutting
Citrus limon
Below zone 9 this is a pot you can bring in, not a permanent bed.
A named pot plant, not a grocery seed. Out for summer, in before the first cold night.
Start indoors 0–8 weeks before last frost. Transplant 2–6 weeks after last frost.
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Herb · Seed
Melissa officinalis
Mint-family thug. Start in a pot so you choose where it lives.
Start indoors 6–8 weeks before last frost. Transplant at last frost through 2 weeks after.
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Herb · Cutting
Aloysia citrodora
Below zone 9 this is a pot you can bring in, not a permanent bed.
Cuttings, not seed. A patio shrub that must come in before the first frost.
Start indoors 4–8 weeks before last frost. Transplant 2–4 weeks after last frost.
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Herb · Crown
Cymbopogon citratus
Below zone 9 this is a pot you can bring in, not a permanent bed.
Root a kitchen stalk in water, then a warm pot. Not a packet plant in the north.
Start indoors 4–8 weeks before last frost. Transplant 2–4 weeks after last frost.
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