Broad bean · Nankana Sahib, Punjab, Pakistan
When to plant broad beans in Nankana Sahib
Main outdoor window
19 Nov - 10 Dec
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
14 January
In Nankana Sahib, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
7-27 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 Nankana Sahib
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
19 Nov - 10 Dec
Eight weeks before your last frost.
Harvest
7-27 Feb
Broad beans through the year
Against the frost risk in Nankana Sahib
Why these dates
Sow in autumn in zones 7 and warmer for an early summer crop, or eight weeks before last frost in colder regions. Autumn sowings also dodge the worst of blackfly.
Survives -10C once established, and light snow cover helps rather than harms. Very young seedlings going into deep cold are the only real risk.
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. Broad beans are timed for direct sowing 8 weeks before it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Nankana Sahib.
Also in Nankana Sahib
Other vegetables to time
Growing broad beans in Nankana Sahib
When should I plant broad beans in Nankana Sahib?
Aim for 19 Nov - 10 Dec in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 9-30 Dec - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will broad beans be ready to harvest in Nankana Sahib?
Expect to start picking around 7-27 Feb, based on 80 to 100 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.
How much frost will broad beans tolerate?
Survives -10C once established, and light snow cover helps rather than harms. Very young seedlings going into deep cold are the only real risk.