Lentil · Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam
When to plant lentils in Ho Chi Minh City
Main outdoor window
not outdoors here
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
no spring frost
In Ho Chi Minh City, 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 Ho Chi Minh City
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.
Lentils through the year
Against the frost risk in Ho Chi Minh City
Why these dates
Sow four weeks before the last frost. Lentils are short and easily flattened by rain, so a windless site and a firm seedbed both help at harvest.
Seedlings survive to about -6C, which is why lentils are sown far earlier than most pulses.
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. Lentils are timed for direct sowing 4 weeks before it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Ho Chi Minh City.
Also in Ho Chi Minh City
Other grains to time
Growing lentils in Ho Chi Minh City
How much frost will lentils tolerate?
Seedlings survive to about -6C, which is why lentils are sown far earlier than most pulses.