Mizuna · Fes, Fes-Meknes, Morocco
When to plant mizuna in Fes
Main outdoor window
6 Jan - 3 Feb
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
3 February
In Fes, 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.
Step by step in Fes
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
28 Sep - 19 Oct
Counting back 59 days from your first frost so the crop matures in time.
Sow direct
6 Jan - 3 Feb
Four weeks before your last frost.
Harvest
1 May - 30 Nov
Mizuna through the year
Against the frost risk in Fes
Why these dates
Sow from four weeks before the last frost and every two weeks after. A late-summer sowing under cover picks through most of the winter.
Hardy to about -8C unprotected and considerably lower under a cloche, which makes it one of the most useful winter salad leaves.
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. Mizuna are timed for direct sowing 4 weeks before it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Fes.
The median frost-free season here is 317 days, against 35 to 45 days to maturity for this crop counted from sowing. That margin is what decides whether a late sowing is worth attempting.
Also in Fes
Other vegetables to time
Growing mizuna in Fes
When should I plant mizuna in Fes?
Aim for 6 Jan - 3 Feb in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 24 Jan - 21 Feb - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will mizuna be ready to harvest in Fes?
Expect to start picking around 1 May - 30 Nov, based on 35 to 45 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.
How much frost will mizuna tolerate?
Hardy to about -8C unprotected and considerably lower under a cloche, which makes it one of the most useful winter salad leaves.