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crown pumpkin Crown Pumpkin planting

grown by Alpinefolk in Garden 2 (sth) · Blenheim

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Done
  1. Planted 2019-12-10
  2. First harvest 2020-03-18
  3. Last harvest 2020-04-15
  4. Finished 2020-04-15

Harvest months

Spring
September
October
November
Summer
December
January
February
Autumn
March, usually harvesting
April, usually harvesting
May
Winter
June
July
August

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

almost 7 years ago 2019-12-10

Progress

Done 127 days

Degree days

324 of about 1,280 needed

Quantity

2 seedlings

Grown in

full sun

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Seedling

Weather in Blenheim New

Daily high and low
Too cold for crown pumpkin so farFrom Feb 23 to Apr 15, 21 of 53 days had a high inside the best range of 20–30°C. The highs were below the best range on 32 days. The weather was too cold on 10 days (lows below 9°C).
Grows at 9–38°Grows best 20–30°
Daily rainfall
Rain
96 mm
Hottest day
25.5°C
Coldest night
3.5°C
Soil temperature
15.9°C
Days in its best range
21 of 53
Days
53

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0). Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. The weather is modelled for the area around the garden, not measured in it, and runs a few days behind. The totals, charts and expected weather are our adaptation of that data.

Notes

Not 100% sure when I planted them. Pulled peas before Xmas and pumpkin was planted underneath. Guessing early/mid December.

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Crop

Photo of crown pumpkin

Crown Pumpkin

Cucurbita pepo

a variety of Pumpkin

  • 6 plantings
  • 8 harvests
  • An annual, living about 151 days
  • First harvest about 103 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 130 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other crown pumpkin plantings at the same latitude.