Oats · Tangier, Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima, Morocco
When to plant oats in Tangier
Main outdoor window
not outdoors here
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
no spring frost
In Tangier, on your chosen risk.
First autumn frost
no autumn frost
The far end of the outdoor season.
The average last frost. Half of all years are later than this.
Step by step in Tangier
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.
Oats through the year
Against the frost risk in Tangier
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 Tangier.
Also in Tangier
Other grains to time
Growing oats in Tangier
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.