Spinach · Narela, Delhi, India
When to plant spinach in Narela
Main outdoor window
25 Nov - 9 Dec
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
7 January
In Narela, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
5-15 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 Narela
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
25 Nov - 9 Dec
Six weeks before your last frost.
Harvest
5-15 Jan
Spinach through the year
Against the frost risk in Narela
Why these dates
Spring sowings must go in early - six weeks before last frost - to crop before bolting. The autumn sowing, six to eight weeks before first frost, is usually far more productive.
Overwinters under snow in zone 5 and regrows in spring. One of the few crops that genuinely prefers frost.
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. Spinach are timed for direct sowing 6 weeks before it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Narela.
Also in Narela
Other vegetables to time
Growing spinach in Narela
When should I plant spinach in Narela?
Aim for 25 Nov - 9 Dec in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 26 Nov - 10 Dec - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will spinach be ready to harvest in Narela?
Expect to start picking around 5-15 Jan, based on 40 to 50 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.
How much frost will spinach tolerate?
Overwinters under snow in zone 5 and regrows in spring. One of the few crops that genuinely prefers frost.