Cabbage · Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk, Russia
When to plant cabbages in Magnitogorsk
Main outdoor window
28 Apr - 19 May
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
19 May
In Magnitogorsk, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
7 Jul - 6 Aug
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 Magnitogorsk
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.
Start indoors
24 Mar - 14 Apr
Eight weeks before your last frost, under cover or on a windowsill.
Plant out
28 Apr - 19 May
Three weeks before your last frost.
Harvest
7 Jul - 6 Aug
Cabbages through the year
Against the frost risk in Magnitogorsk
Why these dates
Spring cabbage sown in late summer and overwintered gives the earliest crop of the year. Summer and autumn types go in from an early indoor sowing.
Hardy to about -8C, and savoy types considerably lower. Young transplants handle frost far better than most gardeners expect.
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. Cabbages are timed from 8 weeks before that frost for an indoor start, with planting out 3 weeks before it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Magnitogorsk.
The median frost-free season here is 129 days, against 70 to 100 days to maturity for this crop counted from planting out. That margin is what decides whether a late sowing is worth attempting.
Also in Magnitogorsk
Other vegetables to time
Growing cabbages in Magnitogorsk
When should I plant cabbages in Magnitogorsk?
Aim for 28 Apr - 19 May in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 10-31 May - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will cabbages be ready to harvest in Magnitogorsk?
Expect to start picking around 7 Jul - 6 Aug, based on 70 to 100 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.
How much frost will cabbages tolerate?
Hardy to about -8C, and savoy types considerably lower. Young transplants handle frost far better than most gardeners expect.