Mung bean · Iztapalapa, Mexico City, Mexico
When to plant mung beans in Iztapalapa
Main outdoor window
23 Feb - 16 Mar
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
9 February
In Iztapalapa, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
9 May - 3 Jun
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 Iztapalapa
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
23 Feb - 16 Mar
Two weeks after your last frost.
Harvest
9 May - 3 Jun
Mung beans through the year
Against the frost risk in Iztapalapa
Why these dates
Killed by any frost. Needs roughly 90 warm frost-free days to dry a crop down.
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. Mung beans are timed for direct sowing 2 weeks after it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Iztapalapa.
The median frost-free season here is 281 days, against 75 to 100 days to maturity for this crop counted from sowing. That margin is what decides whether a late sowing is worth attempting.
Nearby
Mung beans in places close by
Growing mung beans in Iztapalapa
When should I plant mung beans in Iztapalapa?
Aim for 23 Feb - 16 Mar in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 14 Mar - 4 Apr - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will mung beans be ready to harvest in Iztapalapa?
Expect to start picking around 9 May - 3 Jun, based on 75 to 100 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.
How much frost will mung beans tolerate?
Killed by any frost. Needs roughly 90 warm frost-free days to dry a crop down.