Chickpea · Horlivka, Donetsk, Ukraine

When to plant chickpeas in Horlivka

Main outdoor window

8-29 Apr

The window this page is built around.

Timed from last spring frost

22 April

In Horlivka, on your chosen risk.

Ready to pick

17 Jul - 16 Aug

If you plant at the start of the window.

The average last frost. Half of all years are later than this.

Cautious Balanced Bold

Step by step in Horlivka

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

8-29 Apr

Two weeks before your last frost.

Harvest

17 Jul - 16 Aug

Frost tolerance

Half-hardy

Damaged below

-4°C (24.8°F)

Days to maturity

100–130

Min soil temp

8°C (46.4°F)

Spacing

15 cm

Sowing depth

40 mm (1.6 in)

Sun

Full

Chickpeas through the year

Against the frost risk in Horlivka

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Chickpeas

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Why these dates

Sow two weeks before the last frost in a climate with dry summers. Where late summer is wet, sow as early as possible so the pods dry before the rain arrives.

Seedlings tolerate about -4C. Flowers are damaged at -1C, so a late frost during bloom reduces the pod set without killing the plant.

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. Chickpeas are timed for direct sowing 2 weeks before it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Horlivka.

The median frost-free season here is 175 days, against 100 to 130 days to maturity for this crop counted from sowing. That margin is what decides whether a late sowing is worth attempting.

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Nearby

Chickpeas in places close by

Makiyivka 29 km Donetsk 35 km Luhansk 100 km Taganrog 136 km Mariupol 139 km Rostov-on-Don 174 km

Also in Horlivka

Other grains to time

Soybeans tender Winter wheat very hardy Quinoa half hardy Cowpeas tender Spring wheat hardy Lentils hardy Buckwheat tender Mung beans tender Oats hardy Barley hardy Rye very hardy

Growing chickpeas in Horlivka

When should I plant chickpeas in Horlivka?

Aim for 8-29 Apr in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 19 Apr - 10 May - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.

When will chickpeas be ready to harvest in Horlivka?

Expect to start picking around 17 Jul - 16 Aug, based on 100 to 130 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.

How much frost will chickpeas tolerate?

Seedlings tolerate about -4C. Flowers are damaged at -1C, so a late frost during bloom reduces the pod set without killing the plant.