Radish · Lincang, Yunnan, China
When to plant radishes in Lincang
Main outdoor window
28 Dec - 4 Jan
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
25 January
In Lincang, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
19-27 Jan
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 Lincang
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
14 Oct - 4 Nov
Counting back 44 days from your first frost so the crop matures in time.
Sow direct
28 Dec - 4 Jan
Four weeks before your last frost.
Harvest
19-27 Jan
Radishes through the year
Against the frost risk in Lincang
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 Lincang.
The median frost-free season here is 327 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 Lincang
Other vegetables to time
Growing radishes in Lincang
When should I plant radishes in Lincang?
Aim for 28 Dec - 4 Jan in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 2-9 Jan - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will radishes be ready to harvest in Lincang?
Expect to start picking around 19-27 Jan, 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.