Lambs lettuce · Tétouan, Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima, Morocco
When to plant lambs lettuce in Tétouan
Main outdoor window
15 Apr - 13 May
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
4 February
In Tétouan, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
1 Nov - 31 Mar
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.
Sow direct
15 Apr - 13 May
Ten weeks after your last frost.
Harvest
1 Nov - 31 Mar
Lambs lettuce through the year
Against the frost risk in Tétouan
Why these dates
Sow from about ten weeks after midsummer into ground vacated by an earlier crop. It germinates in cool soil, so a late sowing is a feature rather than a compromise.
Survives -15C without protection. Frost does not damage the leaf at all, which is why it is a winter crop everywhere it is grown.
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. Lambs lettuce are timed for direct sowing 10 weeks after it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Tétouan.
Nearby
Lambs lettuce in places close by
Also in Tétouan
Other vegetables to time
Growing lambs lettuce in Tétouan
When should I plant lambs lettuce in Tétouan?
Aim for 15 Apr - 13 May in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 15 Apr - 13 May - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will lambs lettuce be ready to harvest in Tétouan?
Expect to start picking around 1 Nov - 31 Mar, based on 60 to 80 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.
How much frost will lambs lettuce tolerate?
Survives -15C without protection. Frost does not damage the leaf at all, which is why it is a winter crop everywhere it is grown.