Rocket · Al’met’yevsk, Tatarstan Republic, Russia
When to plant rocket in Al’met’yevsk
Main outdoor window
10-20 Apr
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
8 May
In Al’met’yevsk, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
10-25 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 Al’met’yevsk
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 for overwintering
13 Jul - 3 Aug
Counting back 59 days from your first frost so the crop matures in time.
Sow direct
10-20 Apr
Four weeks before your last frost.
Harvest
10-25 May
Rocket through the year
Against the frost risk in Al’met’yevsk
Why these dates
Ready in a month. Sow every ten days spring and autumn; skip high summer, when it turns unpleasantly hot and bolts within weeks.
Withstands -7C and holds usable leaf well into winter under cover.
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. Rocket are timed for direct sowing 4 weeks before it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Al’met’yevsk.
The median frost-free season here is 147 days, against 30 to 45 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 rocket in Al’met’yevsk
When should I plant rocket in Al’met’yevsk?
Aim for 10-20 Apr in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 27 Apr - 7 May - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will rocket be ready to harvest in Al’met’yevsk?
Expect to start picking around 10-25 May, based on 30 to 45 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.
How much frost will rocket tolerate?
Withstands -7C and holds usable leaf well into winter under cover.