Cress · Nizhniy Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia

When to plant cress in Nizhniy Novgorod

Main outdoor window

5 Apr - 31 May

The window this page is built around.

Timed from last spring frost

3 May

In Nizhniy Novgorod, 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 Nizhniy Novgorod

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

5 Apr - 31 May

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 Nizhniy Novgorod

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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 Nizhniy Novgorod.

The median frost-free season here is 155 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 Nizhniy Novgorod →

Also in Nizhniy Novgorod

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Growing cress in Nizhniy Novgorod

When should I plant cress in Nizhniy Novgorod?

Aim for 5 Apr - 31 May in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 21 Apr - 16 Jun - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.

When will cress be ready to harvest in Nizhniy Novgorod?

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.