Thyme · Maoming, Guangdong, China
When to plant thyme in Maoming
Main outdoor window
not outdoors here
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
no spring frost
In Maoming, on your chosen risk.
First autumn frost
no autumn frost
The far end of the outdoor season.
The average last frost. Half of all years are later than this.
Step by step in Maoming
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.
Thyme through the year
Against the frost risk in Maoming
Why these dates
Very slow from seed and best started indoors well ahead of the season, or simply bought as a plant.
Survives -18C. As with oregano, waterlogged winter soil is the real threat.
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. Thyme are timed from 8 weeks before that frost for an indoor start, with planting out 0 weeks after it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Maoming.
Growing thyme in Maoming
How much frost will thyme tolerate?
Survives -18C. As with oregano, waterlogged winter soil is the real threat.