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

Vegetable · Seed

Spinach

Spinacia oleracea

Sow outdoors
Mar 4–25
Start indoors
Mar 18 – Apr 1
Transplant outdoors
Mar 18 – Apr 1
Sow for fall
Aug 20 – Sep 10

Sow as soon as the soil works. Pull it before a hot week bolts the row.

Start indoors 2–4 weeks before last frost. Transplant 2–4 weeks before last frost.

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