Cowpea · Banī Suwayf, Beni Suweif, Egypt
When to plant cowpeas in Banī Suwayf
Main outdoor window
26 Jan - 16 Feb
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
12 January
In Banī Suwayf, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
6 Apr - 6 May
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 Banī Suwayf
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
26 Jan - 16 Feb
Two weeks after your last frost.
Harvest
6 Apr - 6 May
Cowpeas through the year
Against the frost risk in Banī Suwayf
Why these dates
Sow two weeks after the last frost once soil is genuinely warm. Cowpeas grow fast enough in heat to be sown as a second crop after an early harvest.
Tender at 0C, with no useful frost tolerance at either end.
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. Cowpeas are timed for direct sowing 2 weeks after it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Banī Suwayf.
Also in Banī Suwayf
Other grains to time
Growing cowpeas in Banī Suwayf
When should I plant cowpeas in Banī Suwayf?
Aim for 26 Jan - 16 Feb in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 29 Jan - 19 Feb - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will cowpeas be ready to harvest in Banī Suwayf?
Expect to start picking around 6 Apr - 6 May, based on 70 to 100 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.
How much frost will cowpeas tolerate?
Tender at 0C, with no useful frost tolerance at either end.