Claytonia · Tianjin, Tianjin, China

When to plant claytonia in Tianjin

Main outdoor window

16 Jun - 14 Jul

The window this page is built around.

Timed from last spring frost

7 April

In Tianjin, on your chosen risk.

Ready to pick

1 Nov - 30 Apr

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 Tianjin

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 for overwintering

27 Jul - 17 Aug

Counting back 74 days from your first frost so the crop matures in time.

Sow direct

16 Jun - 14 Jul

Ten weeks after your last frost.

Harvest

1 Nov - 30 Apr

Sow in succession. A single sowing gives you a single glut. Sow a short row every 21 days through the window above and you get a steady supply instead.

Frost tolerance

Very-hardy

Damaged below

-12°C (10.4°F)

Days to maturity

45–60

Min soil temp

4°C (39.2°F)

Spacing

15 cm

Sowing depth

5 mm (0.2 in)

Sun

Partial

Claytonia through the year

Against the frost risk in Tianjin

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Claytonia

Frost risk Autumn sowing Sow direct Harvest Today

Why these dates

Sow in late summer, roughly ten weeks after midsummer, for picking from late autumn onwards. It self-seeds freely, so one deliberate sowing often becomes a permanent patch.

Hardy to about -12C and unbothered by repeated freezing, which is why it was a winter green long before it was a salad leaf.

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. Claytonia are timed for direct sowing 10 weeks after it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Tianjin.

The median frost-free season here is 207 days, against 45 to 60 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

Claytonia in places close by

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Growing claytonia in Tianjin

When should I plant claytonia in Tianjin?

Aim for 16 Jun - 14 Jul in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 22 Jun - 20 Jul - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.

When will claytonia be ready to harvest in Tianjin?

Expect to start picking around 1 Nov - 30 Apr, based on 45 to 60 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.

How much frost will claytonia tolerate?

Hardy to about -12C and unbothered by repeated freezing, which is why it was a winter green long before it was a salad leaf.