Leek · Amritsar, Punjab, India
When to plant leeks in Amritsar
Main outdoor window
18 Jan - 8 Feb
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
18 January
In Amritsar, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
28 Apr - 18 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 Amritsar
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
22 Nov - 13 Dec
Eight weeks before your last frost, under cover or on a windowsill.
Plant out
18 Jan - 8 Feb
Around your last frost.
Harvest
28 Apr - 18 May
Leeks through the year
Against the frost risk in Amritsar
Why these dates
Sow indoors eight weeks before last frost, transplant around the frost date into deep holes. Harvest from autumn right through to spring as needed.
Hardy to -15C and often the only fresh vegetable still standing in midwinter.
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. Leeks are timed from 8 weeks before that frost for an indoor start, with planting out 0 weeks after it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Amritsar.
Also in Amritsar
Other vegetables to time
Growing leeks in Amritsar
When should I plant leeks in Amritsar?
Aim for 18 Jan - 8 Feb in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 25 Jan - 15 Feb - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will leeks be ready to harvest in Amritsar?
Expect to start picking around 28 Apr - 18 May, based on 100 to 120 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.
How much frost will leeks tolerate?
Hardy to -15C and often the only fresh vegetable still standing in midwinter.