Coriander · Bab Ezzouar, Algiers, Algeria
When to plant coriander in Bab Ezzouar
Main outdoor window
18-28 Jan
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
1 February
In Bab Ezzouar, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
4-29 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 Bab Ezzouar
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
18-28 Jan
Two weeks before your last frost.
Harvest
4-29 Mar
Coriander through the year
Against the frost risk in Bab Ezzouar
Why these dates
Sow every two weeks from two weeks before last frost. The autumn sowing lasts far longer than any summer one, and in mild climates overwinters.
Takes -5C and grows happily in cool weather. Heat, not frost, is what ends a coriander plant.
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. Coriander are timed for direct sowing 2 weeks before it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Bab Ezzouar.
Growing coriander in Bab Ezzouar
When should I plant coriander in Bab Ezzouar?
Aim for 18-28 Jan in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 21-31 Jan - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will coriander be ready to harvest in Bab Ezzouar?
Expect to start picking around 4-29 Mar, based on 45 to 70 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.
How much frost will coriander tolerate?
Takes -5C and grows happily in cool weather. Heat, not frost, is what ends a coriander plant.