Broccoli · Rabat, Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, Morocco
When to plant broccoli 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.
Broccoli through the year
Against the frost risk in Rabat
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 Rabat.
Also in Rabat
Other vegetables to time
Growing broccoli in Rabat
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.