Vegetable · Euphorbiaceae
When to plant cassava
A tropical staple needing eight months or more without frost. The roots must be cooked thoroughly; raw cassava is toxic.
Plant out
2 weeks after
Counted from your last spring frost.
Days to maturity
240-330
From sowing to a first picking.
Hardy in USDA zones
9b to 11a
Winter cold sets the limit here, not the calendar.
Those weeks become real dates once you name a place.
Timing, in frost-relative terms
Seed packets rarely give calendar dates, because a date that suits one latitude is wrong at another. They give offsets from the last spring frost instead, and those offsets are what make cassava plantable anywhere.
- Plant out 2 weeks after the last frost.
- Expect 240–330 days to maturity, counted from sowing.
- Hardy in USDA zones 9b–11a.
Frost tolerance
Killed by frost. Genuinely tropical, and not a temperate garden crop under any management.
Classified as tender, with damage expected below 0°C (32°F)32°F (0°C).