Honeywort · Chattogram, Chittagong, Bangladesh
When to sow honeyworts in Chattogram
Main outdoor window
not outdoors here
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
no spring frost
In Chattogram, 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 Chattogram
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.
Honeyworts through the year
Against the frost risk in Chattogram
Why these dates
Sow indoors eight weeks before the last frost and plant out two weeks before, or sow direct two weeks before it. The seed is large and germinates best in the dark, so cover it properly. Self-seeds readily on light soil and comes true.
Hardy to about -8C, so autumn sowing works in zone 8 and milder. Needs sharp drainage above all: it rots in a wet winter long before the cold reaches it.
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. Honeyworts are timed from 8 weeks before that frost for an indoor start, with planting out 2 weeks before it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Chattogram.
Chattogram sits in zone 11b, which is milder than this crop wants, and a winter that never really arrives is its own problem. The dates below still describe the right time of year; the open question is survival rather than timing.
Also in Chattogram
Other flowers to time
Growing honeyworts in Chattogram
How much frost will honeyworts tolerate?
Hardy to about -8C, so autumn sowing works in zone 8 and milder. Needs sharp drainage above all: it rots in a wet winter long before the cold reaches it.