Vegetables · Cool
Pak Choi
Brassicaceae
At a glance
- Plant spacing
- 25 cm
- USDA zones
- 3a–9a
- Frost-sensitive
- no
- Growth duration
- 8 weeks
Which beds suit?
- Sun (prefers)
- partial shadeAlso okay:full sun
- Soil (prefers)
- loamyAlso okay:clayraised-bed mix
- Drainage (prefers)
- normal
Seed & start
Either works
Direct sow works; pre-culture gains 4–6 weeks head start.
Stachi's tip
Pak choi is the fast Asian salad: 40-50 days seed-to-harvest. Likes cool weather, bolts in high summer. Spring and autumn are its seasons.
Sowing
Transplanting
Harvest
Good neighbours
Avoid these neighbours
Good pre-cultures
Stachi has no specific pre-cultures recorded.
Sources
- LLM-Baseline
- Kosmos Gartenkalender
- LLM-Baseline-Intercrop
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-09 yieldKg
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 family-zehrer
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 sun-soil-drainage
Articles about this plant
Chard in the raised bed: why it gives you more the more you harvest
Mrs Schneider harvested her chard once in mid-June. Then she left it alone, thinking it needed time to recover. By July it was fifty centimetres tall. She thought she had done something wrong. She hadn't — she'd just stopped harvesting.
What goes into the bed in June — and what's already too late
June isn't the final sprint, it's a second start. What you can still plant, what you sow directly, and which crop to skip because that ship has sailed.
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