When to Plant Garden Orache in Gladstone, MI

One of the first steps you take when you are determining 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.

It's a good idea to determine when it's the best time to plant garden orache by looking at the USDA zone info for Gladstone.


Planting Calendar for Garden Orache

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

Garden Orache do ok in moderate cold which tells us that you can plant them a little earlier in the year than other frost tender plants.

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A good time to plant garden orache
Possibly ok, but a risky time to plant garden orache
Probably not a good time to plant garden orache

The earliest that you can plant garden orache in Gladstone 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 garden orache and expect a good harvest is probably September. If you wait any later than that and your garden orache may not have a chance to fully mature. You can get started a few weeks earlier by starting your garden orache indoors.

Last Frost Date

On average the last frost has passed is on April 15 in Gladstone. You should expect an average low temperature of -20°F in the coldest months of winter.

Keep in mind that USDA zone info for Gladstone may not be accurate from year to year and the actual date of last frost will vary from year to year. Half of the time in Gladstone you get surprised by a frost after April 15 so make sure that you are prepared to cover your garden orache if you have one of those late frosts.

USDA Zone Info for Gladstone

Here is the info for USDA Zone 5a.

Average Date of Last Frost (spring)April 15
Average Date of First Frost (fall)October 15
Lowest Expected Low-20°F
Highest Expected Low-15°F

This means that on a really cold year, the coldest it will get is -20°F. On most years you should be prepared to experience lows near -15°F.

Plants to Grow in Gladstone

You may be interested in your other planting guides for Gladstone.