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Planted 2014-04-08

First harvest expected 2014-08-05

Finished 2015-05-31

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No harvest months for this crop at this latitude yet.

Planted

over 12 years ago 2014-04-08

Progress

Done 418 days

Quantity

1 seed

Grown in

sun

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Seed

Weather in 3706 N Alaska, 97217 New

Daily high and low
Too hot and too cold for kale so farFrom Jun 08 to May 31, 44 of 143 days had a high inside the best range of 15–22°C. The highs were below the best range on 36 days and above the best range on 63 days. The weather was too hot on 17 days (highs above 30°C) and too cold on 45 days (lows below 7°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at 0 °CGrows at 7–30°Grows best 15–22°
Daily rainfall
Rain
190 mm
Hottest day
36.7°C
Coldest night
0.6°C
Soil temperature
16.3°C
Days in its best range
44 of 143
Days
143

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

Dinosaur Kale - one lonely plant that survived the winter, and looks like a tree.
This bolted, so pulled it up.

Photos

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Observations

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

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    Planted

Frost may have reached this kale planting

5 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was 0.6 °C.

This kale planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
0.6 °C
1.4 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
202 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 10 May
Usual last frost
23 Apr
has come as late as 10 May

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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Crop

Photo of kale

Kale

Brassica oleracea Acephala group

a variety of Brassica Oleracea Acephela Group

  • 75 plantings
  • 24 harvests
  • An annual, living about 178 days
  • First harvest about 43 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 118 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other kale plantings at the same latitude.