Cassava · La Pintana, Santiago Metropolitan, Chile

When to plant cassava in La Pintana

Main outdoor window

28 Sep - 26 Oct

The window this page is built around.

Timed from last spring frost

14 September

In La Pintana, on your chosen risk.

Ready to pick

1 May - 28 Sep

If you plant at the start of the window.

The average last frost. Half of all years are later than this.

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Step by step in La Pintana

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.

Plant cuttings

28 Sep - 26 Oct

Two weeks after your last frost.

Harvest

1 May - 28 Sep

Frost tolerance

Tender

Damaged below

0°C (32°F)

Days to maturity

240–330

Hardy to

Zone 9b–11a

Min soil temp

20°C (68°F)

Spacing

90 cm

Sun

Full

Cassava through the year

Against the frost risk in La Pintana

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Why these dates

Killed by frost. Genuinely tropical, and not a temperate garden crop under any management.

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. Cassava are timed with planting out 2 weeks after it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for La Pintana.

Hardiness is not the obstacle here. La Pintana is zone 9b, comfortably inside the range this crop is rated for, so an established plant should come through an average winter without protection.

The median frost-free season here is 265 days, against 240 to 330 days to maturity for this crop counted from sowing. That margin is what decides whether a late sowing is worth attempting.

See every crop timed for La Pintana →

Nearby

Cassava in places close by

San Bernardo 6 km Puente Alto 6 km Maipú 14 km Peñalolén 16 km Renca 21 km Quilicura 25 km

Also in La Pintana

Other vegetables to time

Tomatoes tender Lettuce half hardy Potatoes half hardy Courgettes tender Sweet peppers tender Carrots hardy Cucumbers tender Green beans tender Peas hardy Garlic very hardy Chilli peppers tender Sweetcorn tender

Growing cassava in La Pintana

When should I plant cassava in La Pintana?

Aim for 28 Sep - 26 Oct in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 19 Oct - 16 Nov - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.

When will cassava be ready to harvest in La Pintana?

Expect to start picking around 1 May - 28 Sep, based on 240 to 330 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.

How much frost will cassava tolerate?

Killed by frost. Genuinely tropical, and not a temperate garden crop under any management.