Mint · Foshan, Guangdong, China
When to plant mint in Foshan
Main outdoor window
12 Dec - 3 Jan
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
10 January
In Foshan, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
11 Feb - 13 Mar
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 Foshan
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
12 Dec - 3 Jan
Four weeks before your last frost.
Harvest
11 Feb - 13 Mar
Mint through the year
Against the frost risk in Foshan
Why these dates
Establish from a division rather than seed - seed-grown mint is variable and often poorly flavoured. Cut back hard midsummer for fresh growth.
Dies back to the root in winter and returns reliably from -25C. Frost is irrelevant to an established plant.
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. Mint are timed for direct sowing 4 weeks before it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Foshan.
Growing mint in Foshan
When should I plant mint in Foshan?
Aim for 12 Dec - 3 Jan in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 3-24 Jan - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will mint be ready to harvest in Foshan?
Expect to start picking around 11 Feb - 13 Mar, based on 60 to 90 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.
How much frost will mint tolerate?
Dies back to the root in winter and returns reliably from -25C. Frost is irrelevant to an established plant.