Fenugreek · Xochimilco, Mexico City, Mexico

When to plant fenugreek in Xochimilco

Main outdoor window

9-23 Feb

The window this page is built around.

Timed from last spring frost

9 February

In Xochimilco, on your chosen risk.

Ready to pick

11 Mar - 10 May

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 Xochimilco

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

15 Jul - 5 Aug

Counting back 104 days from your first frost so the crop matures in time.

Sow direct

9-23 Feb

Around your last frost.

Harvest

11 Mar - 10 May

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

Half-hardy

Damaged below

-3°C (26.6°F)

Days to maturity

30–90

Min soil temp

10°C (50°F)

Spacing

10 cm

Sowing depth

10 mm (0.4 in)

Sun

Full

Fenugreek through the year

Against the frost risk in Xochimilco

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Fenugreek

Frost risk Autumn sowing Sow direct Harvest Today

Why these dates

Sow direct at the last frost date and every three weeks after for leaves. For seed, sow once early enough to allow ninety days before the first frost.

Seedlings tolerate a light frost to about -3C; the seed crop needs a frost-free finish.

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. Fenugreek are timed for direct sowing 0 weeks after it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Xochimilco.

The median frost-free season here is 281 days, against 30 to 90 days to maturity for this crop counted from sowing. That margin is what decides whether a late sowing is worth attempting.

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Nearby

Fenugreek in places close by

Tlalpan 8 km Tláhuac 11 km Coyoacán 12 km Iztapalapa 12 km Magdalena Contreras 14 km Iztacalco 16 km

Also in Xochimilco

Other herbs to time

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Growing fenugreek in Xochimilco

When should I plant fenugreek in Xochimilco?

Aim for 9-23 Feb in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 6-20 Mar - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.

When will fenugreek be ready to harvest in Xochimilco?

Expect to start picking around 11 Mar - 10 May, based on 30 to 90 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.

How much frost will fenugreek tolerate?

Seedlings tolerate a light frost to about -3C; the seed crop needs a frost-free finish.