I live in zone 4 - Ohio, when can I plant seeds?

I would like to start some annual flower seeds outside, is it to soon? If no, what day can I start planting?

I live in zone 4 - Ohio, when can I plant seeds?
Check the website below for the last frost date for your specific part of Ohio. You can put the seeds down about a week before that date. However, if you are transplanting seedlings, wait until that date or later.





Take another look at a zone map on-line. None of Ohio is in Zone 4. Ohio is Zone 6, Zone 5b, and Zone 5a depending on where you live. You don't reach Zone 4 until you get into central-northern Michigan.
Reply:DitDit is right. I always suggest to clients that you use specific dates for any landscape action. For example, in your zone (same as mine) I never plant an annual from seed or pot before Mother's Day. May 15th is the general last frost for our zone.


Follow the holidays. A preventive Dormant Oil spray is applied to trees and evergreens when the Forsythia blooms and the temp is above freezing for two days. Fert and Crabgrass preventer the weekend after Easter. Fert and Weed Killer six weeks later (Mother"s Day again) and two weeks after Labor Day. Use a basic fert (10-10-10 with minerals) on Father's Day and the weekend before or at Thanksgiving (gives it a jump) Hope this helps. More info if you need it at gjgjobs@yahoo.com.
Reply:My pal Brady has beaten me to the punch... again... ;)





I live in metro Detroit, and we're USDA hardiness zone 5. I'm always jealous of you Ohio-ians, for being in a more mild zone than I am. I looked at a map to confirm that, and I couldn't find any inches of your state in zone 4.





Typically the last frost date in zone 5 is May 15th. You can chance it (I would) a week or so earlier. You could also start the seed inside right now, and get a little head start (I would think about it). If you are in balmy zone 6... the date will be earlier.





I hope that this helps


Good luck-
Reply:I always wait until after the last full Moon in May to be safe- otherwise you have to protect with milk cartoons etc