Ginger · Mytishchi, Moscow Oblast, Russia
When to plant ginger in Mytishchi
Main outdoor window
7 Mar - 4 Apr
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
2 May
In Mytishchi, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
1 Oct - 31 Dec
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 Mytishchi
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
7 Mar - 4 Apr
Eight weeks before your last frost, under cover or on a windowsill.
Harvest
1 Oct - 31 Dec
Ginger through the year
Against the frost risk in Mytishchi
Why these dates
Sprout the rhizome indoors eight weeks before the last frost and move outside two weeks after it. Young stem ginger can be lifted at six months; mature ginger needs the full season.
Killed at 0C and dormant below 15C. Harvest when the leaves yellow, which in a temperate climate means before the first frost rather than at true maturity.
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. Ginger are timed from 8 weeks before that frost for an indoor start, with planting out 2 weeks after it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Mytishchi.
The median frost-free season here is 158 days, against 240 to 300 days to maturity for this crop counted from sowing. That margin is what decides whether a late sowing is worth attempting.
Also in Mytishchi
Other vegetables to time
Growing ginger in Mytishchi
When will ginger be ready to harvest in Mytishchi?
Expect to start picking around 1 Oct - 31 Dec, based on 240 to 300 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.
Can you grow ginger in Mytishchi?
Frost is not the limit here - warmth is. The soil in this location does not reach the minimum this crop needs before it will start, so it is not a reliable outdoor sowing. Under cover, in a greenhouse or a polytunnel, it is a different question.
How much frost will ginger tolerate?
Killed at 0C and dormant below 15C. Harvest when the leaves yellow, which in a temperate climate means before the first frost rather than at true maturity.