Rocket · Marrakesh, Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco
When to plant rocket in Marrakesh
Main outdoor window
31 Dec - 10 Jan
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
28 January
In Marrakesh, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
30 Jan - 14 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 Marrakesh
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
30 Sep - 21 Oct
Counting back 59 days from your first frost so the crop matures in time.
Sow direct
31 Dec - 10 Jan
Four weeks before your last frost.
Harvest
30 Jan - 14 Feb
Rocket through the year
Against the frost risk in Marrakesh
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 Marrakesh.
The median frost-free season here is 325 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.
Also in Marrakesh
Other vegetables to time
Growing rocket in Marrakesh
When should I plant rocket in Marrakesh?
Aim for 31 Dec - 10 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 Marrakesh?
Expect to start picking around 30 Jan - 14 Feb, 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.