Marrow · Rabat, Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, Morocco
When to plant marrows in Rabat
Main outdoor window
not outdoors here
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
no spring frost
In Rabat, 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 Rabat
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.
Marrows through the year
Against the frost risk in Rabat
Why these dates
Sow two weeks after the last frost. Let two or three fruits swell per plant and remove the rest, since a plant carrying everything ripens nothing well.
Killed at 0C. Cut and bring the fruit under cover before the first autumn frost, which softens the skin and ends any chance of storing it.
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. Marrows are timed from 3 weeks before that frost for an indoor start, with planting out 2 weeks after it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Rabat.
Also in Rabat
Other vegetables to time
Growing marrows in Rabat
How much frost will marrows tolerate?
Killed at 0C. Cut and bring the fruit under cover before the first autumn frost, which softens the skin and ends any chance of storing it.