Red cabbage · Rabat, Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, Morocco
When to plant red cabbages 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.
Red cabbages through the year
Against the frost risk in Rabat
Why these dates
Start indoors about eight weeks before the last frost and plant out three weeks before it. The colour deepens in cool weather, so an autumn crop is better than a summer one.
Hardy to roughly -8C. Heads left standing take frost without splitting, which is the usual reason to leave them out rather than lift them early.
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. Red cabbages are timed from 8 weeks before that frost for an indoor start, with planting out 3 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 red cabbages in Rabat
How much frost will red cabbages tolerate?
Hardy to roughly -8C. Heads left standing take frost without splitting, which is the usual reason to leave them out rather than lift them early.