For South Carolina, the last frost day is sometime around April 15th. I heard about a 'rule of thumb' around these parts, that 'Good Friday' is the best time to start your garden. Last year Good Friday was the first weekend of April, this year was at the end, April 22nd.
I feel that starting April 22nd, was not the best approach. Down here it just gets way too hot, too quick. I did notice that the weather was getting nice in March. I can't say for sure if the nights continued to dip into the frost temps or not, but if I got the chance to re-plant my garden, I would say March 15th would be the date to shoot for.
I would recommend to have my starts from seed planted a head of time, as I don't remember much choice for plants at the home depot / Lowes type stores. For these transplants, they started coming in pretty regularly at the beginning of April.
This year I was running late again. Since March 15th, it has been in lower 70's to lower 80's, with the nights in the upper 50's. So I could of had something going for some time now, but I was late getting my raised beds in, and I started seeds in Last week of January. I could have started things like peppers and maybe tomatoes mid January and had them out in Mid march. Its the last week of March (2012) and I am getting them planted this week (slowly a bit day by day)
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