Pea · Zlatoust, Chelyabinsk, Russia
When to plant peas in Zlatoust
Main outdoor window
10 Apr - 1 May
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
22 May
In Zlatoust, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
4-19 Jun
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 Zlatoust
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 Apr - 1 May
Six weeks before your last frost.
Harvest
4-19 Jun
Peas through the year
Against the frost risk in Zlatoust
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 Zlatoust.
The median frost-free season here is 123 days, against 55 to 70 days to maturity for this crop counted from sowing. That margin is what decides whether a late sowing is worth attempting.
Nearby
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Growing peas in Zlatoust
When should I plant peas in Zlatoust?
Aim for 10 Apr - 1 May in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 21 Apr - 12 May - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will peas be ready to harvest in Zlatoust?
Expect to start picking around 4-19 Jun, 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.