Spring onion · Algiers, Algiers, Algeria
When to plant spring onions in Algiers
Main outdoor window
4-18 Jan
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
1 February
In Algiers, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
28 Feb - 20 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 Algiers
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
4-18 Jan
Four weeks before your last frost.
Harvest
28 Feb - 20 Mar
Spring onions through the year
Against the frost risk in Algiers
Why these dates
Sow direct every three weeks from four weeks before the last frost until about ten weeks before the first. An autumn sowing overwinters for a very early spring crop.
Tolerates about -8C. Autumn sowings survive most temperate winters and stand through cold weather without bolting.
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. Spring onions are timed for direct sowing 4 weeks before it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Algiers.
Also in Algiers
Other vegetables to time
Growing spring onions in Algiers
When should I plant spring onions in Algiers?
Aim for 4-18 Jan in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 7-21 Jan - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will spring onions be ready to harvest in Algiers?
Expect to start picking around 28 Feb - 20 Mar, based on 55 to 75 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.
How much frost will spring onions tolerate?
Tolerates about -8C. Autumn sowings survive most temperate winters and stand through cold weather without bolting.