Lettuce · Assiut, Asyut, Egypt
When to plant lettuce in Assiut
Main outdoor window
27 Dec - 10 Jan
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
17 January
In Assiut, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
10-25 Feb
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 Assiut
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
6-20 Dec
Six weeks before your last frost, under cover or on a windowsill.
Sow direct
27 Dec - 10 Jan
Three weeks before your last frost.
Plant out
3-17 Jan
Two weeks before your last frost.
Harvest
10-25 Feb
Lettuce through the year
Against the frost risk in Assiut
Why these dates
Sow every ten days from six weeks before last frost. Pause through midsummer, then resume for an autumn crop - late sowings are often the best of the year.
Tolerates -3C and a light frost actually sweetens the leaf. Seed germinates poorly above 25C, which is the more common problem.
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. Lettuce are timed from 6 weeks before that frost for an indoor start, with planting out 2 weeks before it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Assiut.
Also in Assiut
Other vegetables to time
Growing lettuce in Assiut
When should I plant lettuce in Assiut?
Aim for 27 Dec - 10 Jan in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 7-21 Jan - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will lettuce be ready to harvest in Assiut?
Expect to start picking around 10-25 Feb, based on 45 to 60 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.
How much frost will lettuce tolerate?
Tolerates -3C and a light frost actually sweetens the leaf. Seed germinates poorly above 25C, which is the more common problem.