Basil · Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil
When to plant basil in Bauru
Main outdoor window
31 Jul - 14 Aug
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
17 July
In Bauru, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
19 Sep - 9 Oct
If you plant at the start of the window.
The average last frost. Half of all years are later than this.
Step by step in Bauru
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.
Start indoors
19 Jun - 3 Jul
Four weeks before your last frost, under cover or on a windowsill.
Sow direct
31 Jul - 14 Aug
Two weeks after your last frost.
Plant out
31 Jul - 14 Aug
Two weeks after your last frost.
Harvest
19 Sep - 9 Oct
Basil through the year
Against the frost risk in Bauru
Why these dates
Plant out two weeks after last frost, once nights are reliably above 12C. A second sowing in midsummer replaces plants that have gone to flower.
Damaged at 1C, before any actual frost forms. If your forecast shows 2C, basil should already be indoors.
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. Basil are timed from 4 weeks before that frost for an indoor start, with planting out 2 weeks after it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Bauru.
Nearby
Basil in places close by
Growing basil in Bauru
When should I plant basil in Bauru?
Aim for 31 Jul - 14 Aug in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 31 Jul - 14 Aug - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will basil be ready to harvest in Bauru?
Expect to start picking around 19 Sep - 9 Oct, based on 50 to 70 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.
How much frost will basil tolerate?
Damaged at 1C, before any actual frost forms. If your forecast shows 2C, basil should already be indoors.