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.

In Brownsville you can figure out when it's possible to plant sweetscented bedstraw by looking at the USDA zone info.

Planting Calendar for Sweetscented Bedstraw

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

Since sweetscented bedstraw are one of those plants that can tolerate a tiny bit of cold weather you can plant them slightly earlier in the year than other plants that might not handle the cold.

The earliest that you can plant sweetscented bedstraw in Brownsville 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 sweetscented bedstraw and expect a good harvest is probably September. Any later than that and your sweetscented bedstraw may not have a chance to grow to maturity. You can get started a couple of weeks earlier by starting your sweetscented bedstraw indoors.

Last Frost Date

On average the last frost when the weather gets warmer is on January 31 in Brownsville. You can expect an average low temperature of 30°F in the coldest months of winter.

Since the USDA zone info for Brownsville is an average the actual date of last frost is different every year. Half of the time in Brownsville you get surprised by a frost after January 31 so make sure that you are ready to protect your sweetscented bedstraw in the event of a surprise late frost.

USDA Zone Info for Brownsville

Here is the info for USDA Zone 10a.

Average Date of Last Frost (spring)	January 31
Average Date of First Frost (fall)	December 15
Lowest Expected Low	30°F
Highest Expected Low	35°F

This means that on a really cold year, the coldest it will get is 30°F. On most years you should be prepared to experience lows near 35°F.

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