Carrot · Gurugram, Haryana, India
When to plant carrots in Gurugram
Main outdoor window
17 Dec - 7 Jan
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
7 January
In Gurugram, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
15 Feb - 7 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 Gurugram
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.
Sow direct
17 Dec - 7 Jan
Three weeks before your last frost.
Harvest
15 Feb - 7 Mar
Carrots through the year
Against the frost risk in Gurugram
Why these dates
Sow from three weeks before last frost. Keep the seedbed continuously damp for the two to three weeks germination takes - this single detail decides most carrot crops.
Seedlings tolerate -6C. Mature roots can be left in the ground under mulch and lifted through winter in all but the coldest zones.
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. Carrots are timed for direct sowing 3 weeks before it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Gurugram.
Also in Gurugram
Other vegetables to time
Growing carrots in Gurugram
When should I plant carrots in Gurugram?
Aim for 17 Dec - 7 Jan in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 23 Dec - 13 Jan - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will carrots be ready to harvest in Gurugram?
Expect to start picking around 15 Feb - 7 Mar, based on 60 to 80 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.
How much frost will carrots tolerate?
Seedlings tolerate -6C. Mature roots can be left in the ground under mulch and lifted through winter in all but the coldest zones.