Cabbage · Sonīpat, Haryana, India
When to plant cabbages in Sonīpat
Main outdoor window
16 Dec - 7 Jan
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
7 January
In Sonīpat, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
25 Feb - 27 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 Sonīpat
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
11 Nov - 2 Dec
Eight weeks before your last frost, under cover or on a windowsill.
Plant out
16 Dec - 7 Jan
Three weeks before your last frost.
Harvest
25 Feb - 27 Mar
Cabbages through the year
Against the frost risk in Sonīpat
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 Sonīpat.
Also in Sonīpat
Other vegetables to time
Growing cabbages in Sonīpat
When should I plant cabbages in Sonīpat?
Aim for 16 Dec - 7 Jan in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 17 Dec - 7 Jan - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will cabbages be ready to harvest in Sonīpat?
Expect to start picking around 25 Feb - 27 Mar, 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.