Best time to plant soybean in Alice Springs
Glycine max
Also called Soya bean, Soy bean, Soy
Sow soybean in Alice Springs in Nov to Jan.
Soybean is a legume from East Asia raised for its edible beans, which also yield an oil used widely in cooking. Eaten as edamame or turned into soy milk, tofu, tempeh and soy sauce, it is the most widely grown legume in the world and a major animal feed.
When to sow in Alice Springs
Alice Springs, NT is in the arid zone. Its months for soybean apply here without a frost adjustment.
Not yet checked against a local guide.
Your local conditions can shift any months shown here, so treat them as a guide.
Frost in Alice Springs
Frost usually arrives in Alice Springs around late May and finishes by mid September. In about 1 year in 10 it comes as early as early May or as late as early October, so frost-tender crops are planned around those dates.
From its Bureau of Meteorology station, 1991 to 2020, counting a night at 2°C or lower as a frost. Frost hollows and hillsides can shift these dates by weeks, so ask the growers at your garden too.
On a shared plot: suits a plot
Finishes in a season and stays within its space, so it suits most plots.
Growing details
- How to start
- Sow directly in the bed
- Sowing depth
- 2.5cm
- Plant spacing
- 15cm
- Row spacing
- 30cm
- Height
- 65cm
- Germination
- About 10 days
- Time to harvest
- 70 days from sowing
- Frost
- Frost tender
- Sun
- Full sun
- Life cycle
- annual
These are typical figures, and varieties differ. Your seed packet takes priority.