Best time to plant bok choy in Nuriootpa
Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis
Also called pak choi, pak choy, buk choy, Chinese white cabbage
Sow bok choy in Nuriootpa in All year.
Bok choy, also sold as pak choi, is a leaf vegetable that never forms a head. Instead, green leaf blades rise from pale, bulbous bases in a loose cluster. The taste sits somewhere between water chestnut and spinach with a slight pepperiness, and the leaves are stronger than the base.
When to sow in Nuriootpa
Nuriootpa, SA is in the temperate zone. Its months for bok choy apply here without a frost adjustment.
Broadly matches local guides, with some differences.
Your local conditions can shift any months shown here, so treat them as a guide.
Frost in Nuriootpa
Frost usually arrives in Nuriootpa around early May and finishes by mid October. In about 1 year in 10 it comes as early as early April or as late as mid November, 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 or raise seedlings
- Sowing depth
- 6mm
- Plant spacing
- 20cm
- Row spacing
- 40cm
- Height
- 20cm
- Germination
- 7-14 days at 7-23°C
- Time to harvest
- 40-50 days
- Frost
- Hardy, takes a light frost
- Sun
- Full sun
- Life cycle
- biennial, usually grown as an annual
These are typical figures, and varieties differ. Your seed packet takes priority.