One of the first steps you take when you are making a decision about your gardening schedule is find your USDA Zone info. The zone info helps tell us things like average date of last frost and lowest expected temperature for your area.

The USDA zone info for Eureka can be used to estimate when it's the best time to plant digitalis.

Planting Calendar for Digitalis

Frost tolerance for digitalis:	Tolerant of some frost.
When to plant:	Up to 5 weeks before last frost.

Digitalis tend to make it in a little bit of cold which means that you can plant them a little bit earlier in the year than plants that are more sensitive to the cold.

The earliest that you can plant digitalis in Eureka is January. However, you really should wait until February if you don't want to take any chances.

The last month that you can plant digitalis and expect a good harvest is probably October. If you wait any later than that and your digitalis may not have a chance to fully mature. You can get started a couple of weeks earlier by starting your digitalis indoors.

Last Frost Date

On average all chance of frost has passed is on February 15 in Eureka. In the coldest months of winter you can expect an average low temperature of 25°F.

Since the USDA zone info for Eureka is just an average the actual date of last frost changes from year to year. Half of the time in Eureka you get a frost after February 15 so make sure that you are ready to protect your digitalis in the event of a late frost.

USDA Zone Info for Eureka

Here is the info for USDA Zone 9b.

Average Date of Last Frost (spring)	February 15
Average Date of First Frost (fall)	December 15
Lowest Expected Low	25°F
Highest Expected Low	30°F

This means that on a really cold year, the coldest it will get is 25°F. On most years you should be prepared to experience lows near 30°F.

Plants to Grow in Eureka

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