Best time to plant brussels sprouts in Cunderdin
Brassica oleracea (Gemmifera group)
Sow brussels sprouts in Cunderdin in Dec to Apr.
A cabbage-family plant grown for the small buds along its tall stem, picked from the bottom up as they firm. It needs a long, cool season, and a touch of frost sweetens the sprouts.
When to sow in Cunderdin
Cunderdin, WA is in the temperate zone. Its months for brussels sprouts apply here without a frost adjustment.
Matches local guides.
Your local conditions can shift any months shown here, so treat them as a guide.
Frost in Cunderdin
Frost usually arrives in Cunderdin around late May and finishes by mid October. In about 1 year in 10 it comes as early as early May or as late as late 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
Holds its spot for five or six months, so plan the rest of the bed around it.
Growing details
- How to start
- Raise seedlings, then transplant
- Sowing depth
- 6-12mm
- Plant spacing
- 45-60cm
- Row spacing
- 75-90cm
- Height
- 80cm
- Germination
- About 14 days
- Time to harvest
- 80-100 days from planting out
- Frost
- Hardy, takes a light frost
- Sun
- Full or part sun
- Life cycle
- biennial, usually grown as an annual
These are typical figures, and varieties differ. Your seed packet takes priority.