Leaf amaranth · Gustavo Adolfo Madero, Mexico City, Mexico

When to plant leaf amaranth in Gustavo Adolfo Madero

Main outdoor window

23 Feb - 23 Mar

The window this page is built around.

Timed from last spring frost

9 February

In Gustavo Adolfo Madero, on your chosen risk.

Ready to pick

1 Jun - 31 Oct

If you plant at the start of the window.

The average last frost. Half of all years are later than this.

Cautious Balanced Bold

Step by step in Gustavo Adolfo Madero

Each window is a range, not a single day. Earlier in the range buys you a longer season; later in it buys you a safer one.

Sow direct

23 Feb - 23 Mar

Two weeks after your last frost.

Harvest

1 Jun - 31 Oct

Sow in succession. A single sowing gives you a single glut. Sow a short row every 14 days through the window above and you get a steady supply instead.

Frost tolerance

Tender

Damaged below

0°C (32°F)

Days to maturity

30–45

Min soil temp

18°C (64.4°F)

Spacing

20 cm

Sowing depth

5 mm (0.2 in)

Sun

Full

Leaf amaranth through the year

Against the frost risk in Gustavo Adolfo Madero

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Why these dates

Sow onto warm soil from two weeks after the last frost and every two weeks after that. Cut the main stem at about 30cm and it branches into a bushier, more productive plant.

Killed at 0C with no margin at all. Sow late, harvest until the first autumn frost, and expect the plants to collapse overnight when it comes.

Seed packets and extension guides express timing as weeks either side of the last spring frost, because that is the only reference point that travels. Leaf amaranth are timed for direct sowing 2 weeks after it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Gustavo Adolfo Madero.

The median frost-free season here is 281 days, against 30 to 45 days to maturity for this crop counted from sowing. That margin is what decides whether a late sowing is worth attempting.

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Nearby

Leaf amaranth in places close by

Mexico City 7 km Ecatepec de Morelos 13 km Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl 14 km Iztapalapa 16 km Puebla 107 km Santiago de Querétaro 181 km

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Growing leaf amaranth in Gustavo Adolfo Madero

When should I plant leaf amaranth in Gustavo Adolfo Madero?

Aim for 23 Feb - 23 Mar in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 20 Mar - 17 Apr - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.

When will leaf amaranth be ready to harvest in Gustavo Adolfo Madero?

Expect to start picking around 1 Jun - 31 Oct, based on 30 to 45 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.

How much frost will leaf amaranth tolerate?

Killed at 0C with no margin at all. Sow late, harvest until the first autumn frost, and expect the plants to collapse overnight when it comes.