Water spinach · Al Hoceïma, Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima, Morocco
When to plant water spinach in Al Hoceïma
Main outdoor window
not outdoors here
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
no spring frost
In Al Hoceïma, 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 Al Hoceïma
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.
Water spinach through the year
Against the frost risk in Al Hoceïma
Why these dates
Start indoors four weeks before the last frost and plant out two weeks after it into soil kept permanently wet. Cut 20cm of tip growth and it regrows within a fortnight.
Damaged at about 5C, long before frost. It needs consistently warm nights and stops dead in a cool spell.
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. Water spinach are timed from 4 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 Al Hoceïma.
Also in Al Hoceïma
Other vegetables to time
Growing water spinach in Al Hoceïma
How much frost will water spinach tolerate?
Damaged at about 5C, long before frost. It needs consistently warm nights and stops dead in a cool spell.