One of the best tools that you have as gardeners to help us figure out your gardening schedule is the USDA zone info. The zone info helps tell us things like average date of last frost and lowest expected temperature for your area.

The first opportunity to plant asparagus lettuce in Mcpherson should be estimated by using the USDA zone info.

Planting Calendar for Asparagus lettuce

Frost tolerance for asparagus lettuce:	Not tolerant of frost.
When to plant:	After the last frost.

You should not plant asparagus lettuce until after the last frost when the weather gets warmer because they do not do well in cold weather.

The earliest that you can plant asparagus lettuce in Mcpherson is April. However, you really should wait until May if you don't want to take any chances.

The last month that you can plant asparagus lettuce and expect a good harvest is probably August. You probably don't want to wait any later than that or else your asparagus lettuce may not have a chance to really do well. You can get started a little bit earlier by starting your asparagus lettuce indoors.

Last Frost Date

On average the last frost has passed is on April 15 in Mcpherson. You should expect an average low temperature of -10°F in the coldest months of winter.

Just be sure to remember that USDA zone info for Mcpherson is just an average and the actual date of last frost changes from year to year. Since half of the time in Mcpherson it frosts late in the year after April 15 be ready to protect your asparagus lettuce in the event of one of those late frosts.

USDA Zone Info for Mcpherson

Here is the info for USDA Zone 6a.

Average Date of Last Frost (spring)	April 15
Average Date of First Frost (fall)	October 15
Lowest Expected Low	-10°F
Highest Expected Low	-5°F

This means that on a really cold year, the coldest it will get is -10°F. On most years you should be prepared to experience lows near -5°F.

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