Radish · Fes, Fes-Meknes, Morocco
When to plant radishes in Fes
Main outdoor window
6-13 Jan
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
3 February
In Fes, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
28 Jan - 5 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 Fes
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 for autumn
13 Oct - 3 Nov
Counting back 44 days from your first frost so the crop matures in time.
Sow direct
6-13 Jan
Four weeks before your last frost.
Harvest
28 Jan - 5 Feb
Radishes through the year
Against the frost risk in Fes
Why these dates
Sow every week in spring and autumn. Summer sowings turn woody and hot - stop when daytime temperatures pass 25C and resume in late summer.
Handles -6C easily and is often the first and last thing harvested in the year.
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. Radishes are timed for direct sowing 4 weeks before it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Fes.
The median frost-free season here is 317 days, against 22 to 30 days to maturity for this crop counted from sowing. That margin is what decides whether a late sowing is worth attempting.
Also in Fes
Other vegetables to time
Growing radishes in Fes
When should I plant radishes in Fes?
Aim for 6-13 Jan in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 24-31 Jan - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will radishes be ready to harvest in Fes?
Expect to start picking around 28 Jan - 5 Feb, based on 22 to 30 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.
How much frost will radishes tolerate?
Handles -6C easily and is often the first and last thing harvested in the year.