Rocket · Bari, Apulia, Italy
When to plant rocket in Bari
Main outdoor window
16-26 Jan
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
13 February
In Bari, 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 Bari
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
16-26 Jan
Four weeks before your last frost.
Harvest
15 Feb - 2 Mar
Rocket through the year
Against the frost risk in Bari
Why these dates
Ready in a month. Sow every ten days spring and autumn; skip high summer, when it turns unpleasantly hot and bolts within weeks.
Withstands -7C and holds usable leaf well into winter under cover.
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. Rocket are timed for direct sowing 4 weeks before it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Bari.
Also in Bari
Other vegetables to time
Growing rocket in Bari
When should I plant rocket in Bari?
Aim for 16-26 Jan in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 28 Jan - 7 Feb - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will rocket be ready to harvest in Bari?
Expect to start picking around 15 Feb - 2 Mar, based on 30 to 45 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.
How much frost will rocket tolerate?
Withstands -7C and holds usable leaf well into winter under cover.