Rapini · Casablanca, Casablanca-Settat, Morocco
When to plant rapini in Casablanca
Main outdoor window
not outdoors here
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
no spring frost
In Casablanca, on your chosen risk.
First autumn frost
no autumn frost
The far end of the outdoor season.
The average last frost. Half of all years are later than this.
Step by step in Casablanca
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.
Rapini through the year
Against the frost risk in Casablanca
Why these dates
Sow from two weeks before the last frost and again from late summer. Warm weather pushes it into flower before the plant has any bulk, so the autumn sowing is the better one.
Hardy to about -6C. Cold weather is what keeps the buds tight, so a frosty autumn produces the best heads.
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. Rapini are timed for direct sowing 2 weeks before it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Casablanca.
Also in Casablanca
Other vegetables to time
Growing rapini in Casablanca
How much frost will rapini tolerate?
Hardy to about -6C. Cold weather is what keeps the buds tight, so a frosty autumn produces the best heads.