Mibuna · Chengzhong, Hubei, China

When to plant mibuna in Chengzhong

Main outdoor window

5 Feb - 5 Mar

The window this page is built around.

Timed from last spring frost

5 March

In Chengzhong, on your chosen risk.

Ready to pick

1 May - 30 Nov

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 Chengzhong

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 overwintering

6-27 Sep

Counting back 64 days from your first frost so the crop matures in time.

Sow direct

5 Feb - 5 Mar

Four weeks before your last frost.

Harvest

1 May - 30 Nov

Sow in succession. A single sowing gives you a single glut. Sow a short row every 14 days through the window above and you get a steady supply instead.

Frost tolerance

Hardy

Damaged below

-8°C (17.6°F)

Days to maturity

40–50

Min soil temp

4.5°C (40.1°F)

Spacing

20 cm

Sowing depth

6 mm (0.2 in)

Sun

Partial

Mibuna through the year

Against the frost risk in Chengzhong

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Why these dates

Sow alongside mizuna from four weeks before the last frost. It stands longer before bolting, so it suits the sowings that get left unpicked.

Hardy to roughly -8C. Frost tightens the flavour rather than damaging the leaf.

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. Mibuna are timed for direct sowing 4 weeks before it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Chengzhong.

The median frost-free season here is 270 days, against 40 to 50 days to maturity for this crop counted from sowing. That margin is what decides whether a late sowing is worth attempting.

See every crop timed for Chengzhong →

Nearby

Mibuna in places close by

Xiaogan 35 km Jingling 54 km Xiantao 65 km Wuhan 79 km Suizhou 87 km Jingmen 129 km

Also in Chengzhong

Other vegetables to time

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Growing mibuna in Chengzhong

When should I plant mibuna in Chengzhong?

Aim for 5 Feb - 5 Mar in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 18 Feb - 18 Mar - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.

When will mibuna be ready to harvest in Chengzhong?

Expect to start picking around 1 May - 30 Nov, based on 40 to 50 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.

How much frost will mibuna tolerate?

Hardy to roughly -8C. Frost tightens the flavour rather than damaging the leaf.