Turmeric · Casablanca, Casablanca-Settat, Morocco
When to plant turmeric in Casablanca
Main outdoor window
not outdoors here
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
no spring frost
In Casablanca, 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 Casablanca
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.
Turmeric through the year
Against the frost risk in Casablanca
Why these dates
Start rhizomes indoors eight weeks before the last frost in a warm place, and move outside two weeks after it. Lift when the foliage dies down, about nine months from planting.
Killed at 0C. In a short season the rhizomes will be small but perfectly usable, so an early lift is better than a frosted crop.
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. Turmeric are timed from 8 weeks before that frost for an indoor start, with planting out 2 weeks after it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Casablanca.
Also in Casablanca
Other vegetables to time
Growing turmeric in Casablanca
How much frost will turmeric tolerate?
Killed at 0C. In a short season the rhizomes will be small but perfectly usable, so an early lift is better than a frosted crop.