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
Vegetable · Tuber
Solanum tuberosum
Seed potatoes, not grocery sprouts. When the redbud thinks about it, not in a February bog.
Plant tubers 1–4 weeks before last frost. Soil about 50°F before anything goes in the ground.
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Vegetable · Slip
Ipomoea batatas
Slips from a jar of water, then warm soil. A cold May week stalls them.
Start indoors 6–8 weeks before last frost. Transplant 2–4 weeks after last frost.
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