Rocket · Tétouan, Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima, Morocco
When to plant rocket in Tétouan
Main outdoor window
7-17 Jan
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
4 February
In Tétouan, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
6-21 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 Tétouan
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
7-17 Jan
Four weeks before your last frost.
Harvest
6-21 Feb
Rocket through the year
Against the frost risk in Tétouan
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 Tétouan.
Also in Tétouan
Other vegetables to time
Growing rocket in Tétouan
When should I plant rocket in Tétouan?
Aim for 7-17 Jan in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 7-17 Jan - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will rocket be ready to harvest in Tétouan?
Expect to start picking around 6-21 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.