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sweet potato grown by aquaprofunda
  1. Planted 2013-10-03
  2. First harvest 2014-02-12 expected
  3. Finished 2014-03-19 expected

No harvest months for this crop at this latitude yet.

Planted

about 13 years ago 2013-10-03

Progress

Done Finished

Degree days

14,950 of about 1,040 needed

Quantity

5 cuttings

Grown in

full sun

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Cutting

Weather in Melbourne, Victoria New

Daily high and low
2 °C frost lineDies at 5 °CGrows at 10–38°Grows best 18–28°
Daily rainfall
Rain
861 mm
Hottest day
42.8°C
Coldest night
1.1°C
Soil temperature
15.9°C
Days in its best range
154 of 361
Days
361

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

five sweet potato ends have been sitting in a tray of water for a couple of months. One is finally sprouting slips, another has a long root.

Photos

Observations

Nothing noticed yet. Note when it flowers, fruits, wilts or falls ill.

  1. Day 0
    Planted

No frost reached this sweet potato planting

Frost was possible until 14 Sep. We have no night temperatures for this sweet potato planting. The sweet potato planting went in on 3 Oct, 37 days after the usual last frost (27 Aug).

This sweet potato planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Frost danger it grew through
0 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 14 Sep
Usual last frost
27 Aug
planted 37 days after it

Experimental: this feature is new and might be flaky. These dates are estimates from 25 km weather-model data, not readings from a station at your garden, so a cold spot can be colder. They may be wrong, so check your national weather service and ask local growers before relying on them.

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0)

Harvests

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Seeds saved

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Jobs

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Crop

Photo of sweet potato

Sweet Potato

Ipomoea batatas

  • 15 plantings
  • 1 harvest
  • An annual, living about 167 days
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other sweet potato plantings at the same latitude.