Quinoa · Izhevsk, Udmurtiya Republic, Russia
When to plant quinoa in Izhevsk
Main outdoor window
11 May - 1 Jun
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
18 May
In Izhevsk, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
29 Aug - 28 Sep
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 Izhevsk
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
11 May - 1 Jun
One week before your last frost.
Harvest
29 Aug - 28 Sep
Quinoa through the year
Against the frost risk in Izhevsk
Why these dates
Sow direct around the last frost date. Quinoa needs a long season but dislikes hot nights during flowering, which makes a cool upland summer ideal and a hot humid one poor.
Young plants tolerate about -3C, and the mature crop takes light frost while drying down, which is useful at the end of a short season.
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. Quinoa are timed for direct sowing 1 weeks before it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Izhevsk.
The median frost-free season here is 134 days, against 110 to 140 days to maturity for this crop counted from sowing. That margin is what decides whether a late sowing is worth attempting.
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Growing quinoa in Izhevsk
When should I plant quinoa in Izhevsk?
Aim for 11 May - 1 Jun in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 24 May - 14 Jun - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will quinoa be ready to harvest in Izhevsk?
Expect to start picking around 29 Aug - 28 Sep, based on 110 to 140 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.
How much frost will quinoa tolerate?
Young plants tolerate about -3C, and the mature crop takes light frost while drying down, which is useful at the end of a short season.