Broccoli · Delhi, Delhi, India
When to plant broccoli in Delhi
Main outdoor window
23 Dec - 14 Jan
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
7 January
In Delhi, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
22 Feb - 24 Mar
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 Delhi
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
18 Nov - 9 Dec
Seven weeks before your last frost, under cover or on a windowsill.
Plant out
23 Dec - 14 Jan
Two weeks before your last frost.
Harvest
22 Feb - 24 Mar
Broccoli through the year
Against the frost risk in Delhi
Why these dates
Aim to have heads maturing before summer heat or after it. A midsummer maturity date produces small, loose, bitter heads no matter how well you grow the plant.
Transplants take -6C. Purple sprouting types are far hardier and are grown deliberately through winter for a spring crop.
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. Broccoli are timed from 7 weeks before that frost for an indoor start, with planting out 2 weeks before it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Delhi.
Also in Delhi
Other vegetables to time
Growing broccoli in Delhi
When should I plant broccoli in Delhi?
Aim for 23 Dec - 14 Jan in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 24 Dec - 14 Jan - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will broccoli be ready to harvest in Delhi?
Expect to start picking around 22 Feb - 24 Mar, based on 60 to 90 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.
How much frost will broccoli tolerate?
Transplants take -6C. Purple sprouting types are far hardier and are grown deliberately through winter for a spring crop.