Your seasonal context
Understand the place before the date.
How local is this information?
- Postal precision
- Wide rural FSA · no single garden location
- Climate reference
- Community station selection needed
- Planting dates
- General crop stages · choose a locally advised date
- Source review
- September 28, 2026 · source data period is separate
Distance alone does not establish a climate match. Elevation, coastal exposure, urban shelter and soil can differ; the postal location has no verified garden elevation.
This rural forward sortation area can cover widely separated communities. One GeoNames reference coordinate cannot identify the climate, frost season or outdoor growing potential at your garden. Check a community station and regional gardening advice before planning a crop.
Light varies across this area
This rural postal area is too broad for one latitude-based daylight estimate. Check your community’s location and the actual sun exposure of your bed.
No single monthly climate table is presented as representative of this whole rural postal area. Choose a community weather station using the official climate directory.
Regional advice
Choose a local planting window.
Local volunteer gardening groups; Ontario does not have one province-wide planting day.
Ask which dates refer to indoor seed starting, direct sowing or transplanting, and whether they cover spring or fall. This referral is not a verified postal-code planting calendar.
Find an official community climate stationThe growing checklist
Give tomatoes a considered start.
Check the root ball while the plant settles in. Keep moisture consistent without leaving the roots in saturated soil, and put supports in place while plants are small.
- Start seed indoors. Start early enough to raise a transplant before the locally recommended outdoor planting window. Indoor sowing and outdoor planting are separate dates.
- Harden off and transplant. Acclimate seedlings gradually. Set plants outside only when local frost risk, night temperatures and soil conditions suit this crop.
- Plan a fall crop separately. Check a local fall schedule and the variety’s maturity time. A spring start date is not a fall planting recommendation.
Inspect soil moisture and drainage in the actual bed; rainfall normals cannot tell you whether roots need water today.
These are general growing stages, not local planting dates. Minnesota calendar dates are not transferred to other regions. Read the Extension guide to growing stages.
One small next step
Make a date to check your garden.
Choose your own reminder date after checking local advice. This is a personal planning prompt, not a calculated planting recommendation.
An .ics file works with Apple Calendar, Google Calendar and Outlook. Your chosen date stays in your browser until you download it.
Postal source label
Whitby Region (Gormley).
This label is not a complete list of communities or a verified city coordinate. The FSA is kept as a wide postal reference, without assigning one place’s weather to all gardens.
A Canadian forward sortation area is the first three characters of a postal code. It can cover several communities, especially outside cities. The representative coordinates may be estimated. Nearby gardens can differ in elevation, shelter, slope and soil.
