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Daikon · Thị Trấn Đông Triều, Quảng Ninh, Vietnam

When to plant daikon in Thị Trấn Đông Triều

Main outdoor window

30 Aug - 20 Sep

The window this page is built around.

Timed from last spring frost

no spring frost

In Thị Trấn Đông Triều, on your chosen risk.

First autumn frost

23 December

The far end of the outdoor season.

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

Step by step in Thị Trấn Đông Triều

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 for autumn

30 Aug - 20 Sep

Counting back 94 days from your first frost so the crop matures in time.

Sow in succession. A single sowing gives you a single glut. Sow a short row every 21 days through the window above and you get a steady supply instead.
Frost tolerance
Hardy
Damaged below
-8°C (17.6°F)
Days to maturity
60–80
Min soil temp
10°C (50°F)
Spacing
15 cm
Sowing depth
15 mm (0.6 in)
Sun
Full

Daikon through the year

Against the frost risk in Thị Trấn Đông Triều

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Frost risk Autumn sowing Today

Why these dates

Sow direct eight to ten weeks after the last frost, or better, ten weeks before the first autumn frost. Spring sowings almost always bolt.

Stands to about -8C. In mild climates it holds in the ground all winter.

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. Daikon are timed for direct sowing 8 weeks after it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Thị Trấn Đông Triều.

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Growing daikon in Thị Trấn Đông Triều

How much frost will daikon tolerate?

Stands to about -8C. In mild climates it holds in the ground all winter.