Leaf amaranth · Rabat, Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, Morocco
When to plant leaf amaranth in Rabat
Main outdoor window
not outdoors here
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
no spring frost
In Rabat, on your chosen risk.
First autumn frost
no autumn frost
The far end of the outdoor season.
The average last frost. Half of all years are later than this.
Step by step in Rabat
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.
Leaf amaranth through the year
Against the frost risk in Rabat
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 Rabat.
Also in Rabat
Other vegetables to time
Growing leaf amaranth in Rabat
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.