Edamame · Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
When to plant edamame in Halifax
Main outdoor window
7-28 May
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
23 April
In Halifax, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
1 Aug - 30 Sep
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 Halifax
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
7-28 May
Two weeks after your last frost.
Harvest
1 Aug - 30 Sep
Edamame through the year
Against the frost risk in Halifax
Why these dates
Sow two weeks after the last frost. Pods on a plant fill almost simultaneously, so the harvest window is about a week and succession sowing is the only way to extend it.
Killed at 0C. Flowering is triggered by day length, so a variety chosen for the wrong latitude flowers at the wrong time regardless of sowing date.
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. Edamame are timed for direct sowing 2 weeks after it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Halifax.
The median frost-free season here is 204 days, against 75 to 95 days to maturity for this crop counted from sowing. That margin is what decides whether a late sowing is worth attempting.
Also in Halifax
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Growing edamame in Halifax
When should I plant edamame in Halifax?
Aim for 7-28 May in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 15 May - 5 Jun - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will edamame be ready to harvest in Halifax?
Expect to start picking around 1 Aug - 30 Sep, based on 75 to 95 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.
How much frost will edamame tolerate?
Killed at 0C. Flowering is triggered by day length, so a variety chosen for the wrong latitude flowers at the wrong time regardless of sowing date.