One of the first steps you take when you are figuring out 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.

You should be able to figure out when you can plant blue lace flowers by looking at the USDA zone info for Mineral Wells.

Planting Calendar for Blue Lace Flowers

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

You can plant blue lace flowers slightly earlier in the year because they do ok in moderate cold.

The earliest that you can plant blue lace flowers in Mineral Wells is March. However, you really should wait until April if you don't want to take any chances.

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

Last Frost Date

The average date of last frost is March 15 in Mineral Wells. It might get as low as 10°F during the coldest months of winter.

Since the USDA zone info for Mineral Wells is an average the actual date of last frost can change quite a bit from year to year. Since half of the time in Mineral Wells it frosts late in the year after March 15 be ready to cover your blue lace flowers in the event of one of those late frosts.

USDA Zone Info for Mineral Wells

Here is the info for USDA Zone 8a.

Average Date of Last Frost (spring)	March 15
Average Date of First Frost (fall)	November 15
Lowest Expected Low	10°F
Highest Expected Low	15°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 15°F.

Plants to Grow in Mineral Wells

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