The USDA Zone info is a great tool for gardeners to help us determine your gardening schedule. The zone info helps tell us things like average date of last frost and lowest expected temperature for your area.

In Manhattan Beach you can determine when it's a good idea to plant euphorbia by checking out the USDA zone info.

Planting Calendar for Euphorbia

Frost tolerance for euphorbia:	Tolerant of a very small amount of frost.
When to plant:	Up to 3 weeks before last frost.

Since euphorbia are barely cold tolerant you can plant them slightly earlier in the year than other plants that might not handle the cold.

The earliest that you can plant euphorbia in Manhattan Beach is February. However, you really should wait until March if you don't want to take any chances.

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

Last Frost Date

On average all chance of frost has passed is on January 31 in Manhattan Beach. You should expect an average low temperature of 35°F in the coldest months of winter.

Since the USDA zone info for Manhattan Beach is just an average the actual date of last frost is different every year. Half of the time in Manhattan Beach you get surprised by a frost after January 31 so be sure to be ready to protect your euphorbia in the event of one of those late frosts.

USDA Zone Info for Manhattan Beach

Here is the info for USDA Zone 10b.

Average Date of Last Frost (spring)	January 31
Average Date of First Frost (fall)	December 15
Lowest Expected Low	35°F
Highest Expected Low	40°F

This means that on a really cold year, the coldest it will get is 35°F. On most years you should be prepared to experience lows near 40°F.

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