Love-in-a-mist · Novocheboksarsk, Chuvash Republic, Russia
When to sow love-in-a-mist in Novocheboksarsk
Main outdoor window
13 Apr - 4 May
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
4 May
In Novocheboksarsk, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
22 Jun - 12 Jul
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 Novocheboksarsk
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
13 Apr - 4 May
Three weeks before your last frost.
In flower
22 Jun - 12 Jul
Love-in-a-mist through the year
Against the frost risk in Novocheboksarsk
Why these dates
Sow direct three weeks before the last frost and thin to 20cm. It flowers for about six weeks and then goes to seed, so sow a second batch three weeks later if you want it into late summer. Leave the last flowers to pod and it will sow itself for next year.
Hardy to about -10C, so an autumn sowing overwinters easily in zone 7 and warmer and flowers in late spring. Short-lived in heat and finished by midsummer in a hot climate.
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. Love-in-a-mist are timed for direct sowing 3 weeks before it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Novocheboksarsk.
Hardiness is not the obstacle here. Novocheboksarsk is zone 4a, comfortably inside the range this crop is rated for, so an established plant should come through an average winter without protection.
The median frost-free season here is 153 days, against 70 to 90 days to first flower for this crop counted from sowing. That margin is what decides whether a late sowing is worth attempting.
Nearby
Love-in-a-mist in places close by
Also in Novocheboksarsk
Other flowers to time
Growing love-in-a-mist in Novocheboksarsk
When should I plant love-in-a-mist in Novocheboksarsk?
Aim for 13 Apr - 4 May in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 3-24 May - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will love-in-a-mist be ready to harvest in Novocheboksarsk?
Expect to start picking around 22 Jun - 12 Jul, based on 70 to 90 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.
How much frost will love-in-a-mist tolerate?
Hardy to about -10C, so an autumn sowing overwinters easily in zone 7 and warmer and flowers in late spring. Short-lived in heat and finished by midsummer in a hot climate.