Claytonia · Zhu Cheng City, Shandong, China

When to plant claytonia in Zhu Cheng City

Main outdoor window

9 Jun - 7 Jul

The window this page is built around.

Timed from last spring frost

31 March

In Zhu Cheng City, 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 Zhu Cheng City

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

9-30 Aug

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

Sow direct

9 Jun - 7 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 Zhu Cheng City

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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 Zhu Cheng City.

The median frost-free season here is 226 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.

See every crop timed for Zhu Cheng City →

Nearby

Claytonia in places close by

Weifang 84 km Qingdao 88 km Linyi 141 km Zibo 149 km Lianyungang 156 km Laiwu 158 km

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Growing claytonia in Zhu Cheng City

When should I plant claytonia in Zhu Cheng City?

Aim for 9 Jun - 7 Jul in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 20 Jun - 18 Jul - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.

When will claytonia be ready to harvest in Zhu Cheng City?

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.