Mung bean · Sohag, Sohag, Egypt
When to plant mung beans in Sohag
Main outdoor window
31 Jan - 21 Feb
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
17 January
In Sohag, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
16 Apr - 11 May
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 Sohag
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
31 Jan - 21 Feb
Two weeks after your last frost.
Harvest
16 Apr - 11 May
Mung beans through the year
Against the frost risk in Sohag
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 Sohag.
Growing mung beans in Sohag
When should I plant mung beans in Sohag?
Aim for 31 Jan - 21 Feb in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 8 Feb - 1 Mar - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will mung beans be ready to harvest in Sohag?
Expect to start picking around 16 Apr - 11 May, 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.