Cabbage · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
When to plant cabbages in Mumbai
Main outdoor window
not outdoors here
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
no spring frost
In Mumbai, 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 Mumbai
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.
Cabbages through the year
Against the frost risk in Mumbai
Why these dates
Spring cabbage sown in late summer and overwintered gives the earliest crop of the year. Summer and autumn types go in from an early indoor sowing.
Hardy to about -8C, and savoy types considerably lower. Young transplants handle frost far better than most gardeners expect.
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. 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 Mumbai.
Also in Mumbai
Other vegetables to time
Growing cabbages in Mumbai
How much frost will cabbages tolerate?
Hardy to about -8C, and savoy types considerably lower. Young transplants handle frost far better than most gardeners expect.