Pea · Delhi, Delhi, India
When to plant peas in Delhi
Main outdoor window
25 Nov - 16 Dec
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
7 January
In Delhi, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
20 Jan - 4 Feb
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 Delhi
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
25 Nov - 16 Dec
Six weeks before your last frost.
Harvest
20 Jan - 4 Feb
Peas through the year
Against the frost risk in Delhi
Why these dates
Sow as soon as soil is workable - six weeks before last frost is normal. In mild-winter climates an autumn sowing overwinters and crops six weeks earlier than any spring sowing can.
Established pea plants shrug off -6C. Seedlings tolerate frost easily; it is heat, not cold, that ends the crop.
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. Peas are timed for direct sowing 6 weeks before it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Delhi.
Also in Delhi
Other vegetables to time
Growing peas in Delhi
When should I plant peas in Delhi?
Aim for 25 Nov - 16 Dec in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 26 Nov - 17 Dec - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will peas be ready to harvest in Delhi?
Expect to start picking around 20 Jan - 4 Feb, based on 55 to 70 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.
How much frost will peas tolerate?
Established pea plants shrug off -6C. Seedlings tolerate frost easily; it is heat, not cold, that ends the crop.