49 provinces, 7 climate zones and 77 plants

Hortario now has a calendar for 49 provinces and Melilla. Each province shows the 1981–2010 climate normals from its main AEMET station, with a link to the source. Palencia and Ceuta will follow as soon as AEMET publishes their tables.

We have gone from five to seven climate zones: the Canary Islands and the mountains are new, and sowing dates for warm-season plants move earlier or later there.

The catalogue has grown to 77 plants: apple, pear, cherry, walnut, hazel and sweet chestnut for the north and centre; orange, mandarin, lime, grapefruit and kumquat; prickly pear, dragon fruit and other cacti and succulents.

Each plant gets a colour for how easy it is in your zone and soil: green, yellow, orange or red. Red means “Not recommended outdoors”: it can still be grown in a greenhouse.