Oats · Kirāri Sulemānnagar, Delhi, India
When to plant oats in Kirāri Sulemānnagar
Main outdoor window
10-31 Dec
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
7 January
In Kirāri Sulemānnagar, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
20 Mar - 19 Apr
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 Kirāri Sulemānnagar
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
10-31 Dec
Four weeks before your last frost.
Harvest
20 Mar - 19 Apr
Oats through the year
Against the frost risk in Kirāri Sulemānnagar
Why these dates
Sow very early in spring for grain. Sown in late summer instead, oats make excellent ground cover that winter-kills cleanly and leaves an easy seedbed in spring.
Seedlings take -7C. Oats sown as a cover crop are deliberately killed by frost around -8C, which is the point - the residue mulches the bed without needing removal.
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. Oats are timed for direct sowing 4 weeks before it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Kirāri Sulemānnagar.
Also in Kirāri Sulemānnagar
Other grains to time
Growing oats in Kirāri Sulemānnagar
When should I plant oats in Kirāri Sulemānnagar?
Aim for 10-31 Dec in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 16 Dec - 6 Jan - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will oats be ready to harvest in Kirāri Sulemānnagar?
Expect to start picking around 20 Mar - 19 Apr, based on 100 to 130 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.
How much frost will oats tolerate?
Seedlings take -7C. Oats sown as a cover crop are deliberately killed by frost around -8C, which is the point - the residue mulches the bed without needing removal.