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.

Seed flat and packets on cream paper

Your frost and zone

East Tennessee hill country. Dates persist on this device until you sign in. Sign in to sync

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By crop

1 of 109 crops in the folio

Fruit · Crown

Pineapple

Ananas comosus

Start indoors
Feb 18 – Apr 15
Transplant outdoors
May 13 – Jun 10

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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