Florence fennel · Kenitra, Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, Morocco
When to plant florence fennel in Kenitra
Main outdoor window
not outdoors here
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
no spring frost
In Kenitra, on your chosen risk.
First autumn frost
no autumn frost
The far end of the outdoor season.
The average last frost. Half of all years are later than this.
Step by step in Kenitra
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.
Florence fennel through the year
Against the frost risk in Kenitra
Why these dates
Sow after midsummer rather than in spring, roughly two weeks after the last frost at the earliest. Shortening days are what make it bulb up instead of run to seed.
Takes about -4C. A cold snap after sowing is itself enough of a check to trigger bolting, which is another argument for the later sowing.
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. Florence fennel are timed for direct sowing 2 weeks after it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Kenitra.
Also in Kenitra
Other vegetables to time
Growing florence fennel in Kenitra
How much frost will florence fennel tolerate?
Takes about -4C. A cold snap after sowing is itself enough of a check to trigger bolting, which is another argument for the later sowing.