Cassava · Marrakesh, Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco
When to plant cassava in Marrakesh
Main outdoor window
11 Feb - 11 Mar
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
28 January
In Marrakesh, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
1 Nov - 31 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 Marrakesh
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
11 Feb - 11 Mar
Two weeks after your last frost.
Harvest
1 Nov - 31 Mar
Cassava through the year
Against the frost risk in Marrakesh
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 Marrakesh.
Hardiness is not the obstacle here. Marrakesh is zone 10a, 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 325 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.
Also in Marrakesh
Other vegetables to time
Growing cassava in Marrakesh
When should I plant cassava in Marrakesh?
Aim for 11 Feb - 11 Mar in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 11 Mar - 8 Apr - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will cassava be ready to harvest in Marrakesh?
Expect to start picking around 1 Nov - 31 Mar, 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.