![]() As you might know just from driving up 101 into San Francisco, there are significant differences in fog cover as you drive up from near Burlingame (Sunny) through South San Francisco (Foggy) past San Bruno Mountain/Brisbane (Sunny) and then into San Francisco (Foggy). You’ll notice there are a few sections for “Foggy” and “Sunny” neighborhoods. ![]() You can see, month by month, when it’s safe to grow different varieties of vegetables, tubers, berries, and even hops in and around the San Francisco Bay. The guide I have created below (and the printable PDF download version) are based on several sources (listed below) to create the most accurate, up-to-date, and complete list. Some plants can grow in the winter, but others need certain amounts of daylight to fruit. Our climate is Mediterranean in some places, and more like the Pacific Northwest in others. “3 to 4 weeks after last frost,” huh? We don’t, um, have a frost, usually. New for 2023 - Download Blank Templates of our Vegetable Planting Chart and Flower & Herb Planting Chart to keep track of your seed sowing dates.When Should I Plant _? It’s a question that’s not easy to answer just by referring to your seed packets, the way you can in many other parts of the US. We don’t provide hardiness numbers for annual plants, as they are not expected to survive winter in any climate.Īlso download the West Coast Seeds Crop Planning Tool to plan spacing as well as timing. This is one of many region-specific guides. Knowing one’s hardiness zone is handy when selecting perennial plants for the garden, but it doesn’t reveal much more than that. As promised, we now offer a complete, regions specific vegetable seed planting guide for the PACIFIC NORTHWEST. Zone 2 is likely too cold for Echinacea to make it through the winter. We might say that Echinacea is hardy to Zone 3, but that only reveals that Echinacea is likely to survive over winter in Zones 3 and up. Hardiness zones are established by measuring how cold and extreme the average winter gets in a given area, and whether specific perennial plants might survive over winter there. Hardiness zones also have to do with cold weather, but are quite a separate concept. They also don’t account for our changing climate. They are intended to offer general guidance for garden planning, but they do not account for exceptional weather year over year. These dates vary widely by region, which makes the regional charts helpful - we hope. Last frost: The last time frost occurs in winter or spring in an average year.įirst and last frost dates are recorded by government-run weather stations all over North America, and the average is based on a fifty-year history for each region. It’s a bit tricky, and it’s all about averages.įirst frost: The first time frost occurs in the autumn in an average year. To create these charts, we look at clusters of the most common average frost dates for a given area and estimate how many weeks make sense to plant seeds before or after the last frost. January 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30, 2022 Hastings Park Winter Farmers Market a winter market that takes place on Sundays from 10 am until 2 pm in the parking lot by the Hastings Skatepark between November and April. It takes a lot of work to perfect the planting charts included here.
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