Part XV

Seed starting

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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Your frost and zone

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Herb · Seed

Nigella

Nigella sativa

Sow outdoors
Mar 18 – Apr 8
Sow for fall
Sep 3–17

Black seed and love-in-a-mist are the same genus-cousin habit: sow cool, do not transplant.

Sow outdoors 1–4 weeks before last frost. Fall sow 4–6 weeks before first frost.

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