Honeywort · Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
When to sow honeyworts in Lahore
Main outdoor window
13 Jan - 3 Feb
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
27 January
In Lahore, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
3-23 Apr
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 Lahore
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
2-23 Dec
Eight weeks before your last frost, under cover or on a windowsill.
Sow direct
13 Jan - 3 Feb
Two weeks before your last frost.
Plant out
13 Jan - 3 Feb
Two weeks before your last frost.
In flower
3-23 Apr
Honeyworts through the year
Against the frost risk in Lahore
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 Lahore.
Lahore sits in zone 10b, 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.
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Growing honeyworts in Lahore
When should I plant honeyworts in Lahore?
Aim for 13 Jan - 3 Feb in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 23 Jan - 13 Feb - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will honeyworts be ready to harvest in Lahore?
Expect to start picking around 3-23 Apr, based on 80 to 100 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.
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.