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
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Transplanting
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Harvest
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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