Radish · Amritsar, Punjab, India
When to plant radishes in Amritsar
Main outdoor window
20-27 Dec
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
18 January
In Amritsar, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
12-20 Jan
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.
Sow direct
20-27 Dec
Four weeks before your last frost.
Harvest
12-20 Jan
Radishes through the year
Against the frost risk in Amritsar
Why these dates
Sow every week in spring and autumn. Summer sowings turn woody and hot - stop when daytime temperatures pass 25C and resume in late summer.
Handles -6C easily and is often the first and last thing harvested in the year.
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. Radishes are timed for direct sowing 4 weeks before it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Amritsar.
Also in Amritsar
Other vegetables to time
Growing radishes in Amritsar
When should I plant radishes in Amritsar?
Aim for 20-27 Dec in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 28 Dec - 4 Jan - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will radishes be ready to harvest in Amritsar?
Expect to start picking around 12-20 Jan, based on 22 to 30 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.
How much frost will radishes tolerate?
Handles -6C easily and is often the first and last thing harvested in the year.