Endive · Tétouan, Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima, Morocco
When to plant endive in Tétouan
Main outdoor window
21 Jan - 11 Feb
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
4 February
In Tétouan, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
1 Aug - 30 Nov
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 Tétouan
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.
Start indoors
24 Dec - 14 Jan
Six weeks before your last frost, under cover or on a windowsill.
Sow direct
18 Feb - 11 Mar
Two weeks after your last frost.
Sow direct
21 Jan - 11 Feb
Two weeks before your last frost.
Harvest
1 Aug - 30 Nov
Endive through the year
Against the frost risk in Tétouan
Why these dates
Sow from two weeks after the last frost through midsummer for autumn heads. Early sowings bolt, so this is one to hold back rather than rush.
Hardy to about -6C, and blanching heads under a pot also shelters them from the first frosts.
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. Endive are timed from 6 weeks before that frost for an indoor start, with planting out 2 weeks before it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Tétouan.
Also in Tétouan
Other vegetables to time
Growing endive in Tétouan
When should I plant endive in Tétouan?
Aim for 21 Jan - 11 Feb in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 21 Jan - 11 Feb - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will endive be ready to harvest in Tétouan?
Expect to start picking around 1 Aug - 30 Nov, based on 80 to 100 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.
How much frost will endive tolerate?
Hardy to about -6C, and blanching heads under a pot also shelters them from the first frosts.