Spinach · Rabat, Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, Morocco
When to plant spinach in Rabat
Main outdoor window
not outdoors here
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
no spring frost
In Rabat, 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 Rabat
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.
Spinach through the year
Against the frost risk in Rabat
Why these dates
Spring sowings must go in early - six weeks before last frost - to crop before bolting. The autumn sowing, six to eight weeks before first frost, is usually far more productive.
Overwinters under snow in zone 5 and regrows in spring. One of the few crops that genuinely prefers frost.
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. Spinach are timed for direct sowing 6 weeks before it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Rabat.
Also in Rabat
Other vegetables to time
Growing spinach in Rabat
How much frost will spinach tolerate?
Overwinters under snow in zone 5 and regrows in spring. One of the few crops that genuinely prefers frost.