Cress · Ksar El Kebir, Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima, Morocco

When to plant cress in Ksar El Kebir

Main outdoor window

20 Jan - 17 Mar

The window this page is built around.

Timed from last spring frost

17 February

In Ksar El Kebir, on your chosen risk.

Ready to pick

1 Apr - 31 Oct

If you plant at the start of the window.

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

Cautious Balanced Bold

Step by step in Ksar El Kebir

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

20 Jan - 17 Mar

Four weeks before your last frost.

Harvest

1 Apr - 31 Oct

Sow in succession. A single sowing gives you a single glut. Sow a short row every 7 days through the window above and you get a steady supply instead.

Frost tolerance

Half-hardy

Damaged below

-3°C (26.6°F)

Days to maturity

14–21

Min soil temp

4.5°C (40.1°F)

Spacing

5 cm

Sowing depth

5 mm (0.2 in)

Sun

Partial

Cress through the year

Against the frost risk in Ksar El Kebir

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Cress

Frost risk Sow direct Harvest Today

Why these dates

Sow thickly every week from four weeks before the last frost. It needs no space, no depth and no waiting, so it fills the edges of beds all season.

Damaged below about -3C, but the crop is over so quickly that frost rarely gets the chance to reach it.

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. Cress are timed for direct sowing 4 weeks before it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Ksar El Kebir.

The median frost-free season here is 315 days, against 14 to 21 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 Ksar El Kebir →

Nearby

Cress in places close by

Larache 31 km Tétouan 81 km Tangier 86 km Kenitra 103 km Meknes 127 km Khemisset 132 km

Also in Ksar El Kebir

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 cress in Ksar El Kebir

When should I plant cress in Ksar El Kebir?

Aim for 20 Jan - 17 Mar in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 30 Jan - 27 Mar - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.

When will cress be ready to harvest in Ksar El Kebir?

Expect to start picking around 1 Apr - 31 Oct, based on 14 to 21 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.

How much frost will cress tolerate?

Damaged below about -3C, but the crop is over so quickly that frost rarely gets the chance to reach it.