Rocket · Ksar El Kebir, Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima, Morocco

When to plant rocket in Ksar El Kebir

Main outdoor window

20-30 Jan

The window this page is built around.

Timed from last spring frost

17 February

In Ksar El Kebir, on your chosen risk.

Ready to pick

19 Feb - 6 Mar

If you plant at the start of the window.

The average last frost. Half of all years are later than this.

Cautious Balanced Bold

Step by step in Ksar El Kebir

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 overwintering

10-31 Oct

Counting back 59 days from your first frost so the crop matures in time.

Sow direct

20-30 Jan

Four weeks before your last frost.

Harvest

19 Feb - 6 Mar

Sow in succession. A single sowing gives you a single glut. Sow a short row every 10 days through the window above and you get a steady supply instead.

Frost tolerance

Hardy

Damaged below

-7°C (19.4°F)

Days to maturity

30–45

Min soil temp

4.5°C (40.1°F)

Spacing

15 cm

Sowing depth

6 mm (0.2 in)

Sun

Partial

Rocket through the year

Against the frost risk in Ksar El Kebir

Jan

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Rocket

Frost risk Autumn sowing Sow direct Harvest Today

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 Ksar El Kebir.

The median frost-free season here is 315 days, against 30 to 45 days to maturity for this crop counted from sowing. That margin is what decides whether a late sowing is worth attempting.

See every crop timed for Ksar El Kebir →

Nearby

Rocket in places close by

Larache 31 km Tétouan 81 km Tangier 86 km Kenitra 103 km Meknes 127 km Khemisset 132 km

Also in Ksar El Kebir

Other vegetables to time

Tomatoes tender Lettuce half hardy Potatoes half hardy Courgettes tender Sweet peppers tender Carrots hardy Cucumbers tender Green beans tender Peas hardy Garlic very hardy Chilli peppers tender Sweetcorn tender

Growing rocket in Ksar El Kebir

When should I plant rocket in Ksar El Kebir?

Aim for 20-30 Jan in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 30 Jan - 9 Feb - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.

When will rocket be ready to harvest in Ksar El Kebir?

Expect to start picking around 19 Feb - 6 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.