How to grow tomato in Wagga Wagga
Solanum lycopersicum
Frost in Wagga Wagga rules out the arid zone's usual months for tomato. Ask the growers at your garden what works locally.
Eaten as a vegetable but botanically a berry, the tomato is the fruit of a frost-tender, mostly annual vine in the nightshade family. Thousands of cultivars differ in shape, size, colour and taste, and the savoury umami flavour makes it a key ingredient in sauces, soups and salads.
When to sow in Wagga Wagga
Wagga Wagga, NSW is in the arid zone. The zone also plants in Mar to Sep, but Wagga Wagga's frost dates make those months risky for a frost-tender crop.
Broadly matches local guides, with some differences.
Your local conditions can shift any months shown here, so treat them as a guide.
Frost in Wagga Wagga
Frost usually arrives in Wagga Wagga around late April and finishes by mid October. In about 1 year in 10 it comes as early as early April or as late as early November, so frost-tender crops are planned around those dates.
From its Bureau of Meteorology station, 1991 to 2020, counting a night at 2°C or lower as a frost. Frost hollows and hillsides can shift these dates by weeks, so ask the growers at your garden too.
On a shared plot: suits a plot
Finishes in a season and stays within its space, so it suits most plots.
Growing details
- How to start
- Raise seedlings, then transplant
- Sowing depth
- 5mm
- Plant spacing
- 45cm
- Row spacing
- 45cm
- Germination
- 4-10 days at 20-30°C
- Time to harvest
- 65 days
- Frost
- Frost tender
- Sun
- Full sun
- Life cycle
- annual
These are typical figures, and varieties differ. Your seed packet takes priority.