Understanding your last frost date can help make your gardening more successful. Also known as the last freeze date, the last frost date is important in determining when to start seeds indoors and when to plant outside. Learn the differences between the average last frost date, the 10% last frost date and the 90% last frost date.

To find your last frost date, check one of these sites:
The National Gardening Association https://garden.org/apps/frost-dates/

Dave’s Garden
https://davesgarden.com/guides/freeze-frost-dates/#b

Understanding the Last Frost Date

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  • Sean Wall

    Thank you Scott for producing this video ! I'm going to Nat'l gardening assoc. sight like you suggested ! I'm from N.E. Ohio where anything can happen ! But I'm with Patricia, Memorial Weekend is best ! After that , too late !

  • Mary Dorr

    Thanks! I searched that NOA site before and was not happy with it. I could not find the info either. Just went to both of your recommended sides and was able to retrieve the information that I needed very useful, thank you

  • Patricia Walker

    We always go by the Memorial Day weekend for our safe planting date also. We're Zone 4a/4b right on the border of the two zones. Thanks for the explanation of the zones. My father was a fabulous gardener, we always had fresh produce or the home canned variety. It wasn't until I got out on my own that I discovered those tomatoes in the grocery store were very poor substitutes for the 'real thing' 🙂