Pea · Khemisset, Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, Morocco
When to plant peas in Khemisset
Main outdoor window
21 Dec - 12 Jan
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
2 February
In Khemisset, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
15 Feb - 2 Mar
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 Khemisset
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
21 Dec - 12 Jan
Six weeks before your last frost.
Harvest
15 Feb - 2 Mar
Peas through the year
Against the frost risk in Khemisset
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 Khemisset.
Also in Khemisset
Other vegetables to time
Growing peas in Khemisset
When should I plant peas in Khemisset?
Aim for 21 Dec - 12 Jan in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 24 Dec - 14 Jan - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will peas be ready to harvest in Khemisset?
Expect to start picking around 15 Feb - 2 Mar, 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.