Starting Your Own Plants Indoors from Seed

For the adventurous souls who wish to start their plants indoors from seed, go to Mother Earth Living's Garden Planning Guide: When to Plant Seeds and Seedlings for Your Region and download the Spring Garden Worksheet at this site as well as guides & apps for our various devices at Mother Earth's What to Plant Now.

Determining Last & First Frosts for Piermont

Dobbs Ferry, NY -- directly across from Piermont:
This chart can help determine the chance of a certain temperature occurring in our area on a given date.

Temperature 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% Spring 32° May 2 Apr 27 Apr 24 Apr 20 Apr 18 Apr 15 Apr 12 Apr 8 Apr 3 Spring 28° Apr 17 Apr 12 Apr 9 Apr 6 Apr 3 Apr 1 Mar 29 Mar 25 Mar 21 Spring 24° Apr 6 Apr 1 Mar 29 Mar 26 Mar 24 Mar 21 Mar 19 Mar 15 Mar 11 Fall 32° Oct 10 Oct 15 Oct 19 Oct 22 Oct 25 Oct 28 Oct 31 Nov 2 Nov 7 Fall 28° Oct 26 Oct 31 Nov 3 Nov 7 Nov 10 Nov 13 Nov 17 Nov 21 Nov 26 Fall 24° Nov 8 Nov 14 Nov 18 Nov 21 Nov 24 Nov 28 Dec 2 Dec 6 Dec 12

* This station data is available courtesy the National Climatic Data Center.
For each station, you will see a temperature along with a pile of percentage columns. Here's how it works: The percent column tells you the probability that you will experience that row's temperature on or before that date.  So, for example, in the Spring 32° row, if you have "Apr 18" under the 50% column, that means that you have a 50% chance of seeing frost on or before April 18th.  Another example. Say in the Fall 24° row, under 90%, you have "Dec 12", then that means that you have a 90% chance of seeing 24 degrees on or before December 12th.

Chart from Celetti's Nursery in New City

Piermont is now in 7a hardiness zone (0-5º F) according to the USDA.  

When the Community Garden first started we were in 5b.