Red cabbage · Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico
When to plant red cabbages in Zapopan
Main outdoor window
not outdoors here
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
no spring frost
In Zapopan, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
1 Sep - 30 Nov
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 Zapopan
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.
Harvest
1 Sep - 30 Nov
Red cabbages through the year
Against the frost risk in Zapopan
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 Zapopan.
Also in Zapopan
Other vegetables to time
Growing red cabbages in Zapopan
When will red cabbages be ready to harvest in Zapopan?
Expect to start picking around 1 Sep - 30 Nov, based on 90 to 120 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.
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.