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Beefsteak Tomato planting

grown by bigblen in Containers · Rapaki Road, Christchurch

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Planted 2019-11-22

First harvest expected 2020-03-14

Finished 2020-04-01

(One emoji = 1 week)

Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

almost 7 years ago 2019-11-22

Progress

Done 131 days

Quantity

6 seeds

Grown in

sun

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Seed

Weather in Rapaki Road, Christchurch New

Daily high and low
Mixed conditions for beefsteak tomato so farFrom Nov 22 to Apr 01, 51 of 132 days had a high inside the best range of 20–27°C. The highs were below the best range on 68 days and above the best range on 13 days. The weather was too cold on 2 days (lows below 7°C).
2 °C frost lineGrows at 7–35°Grows best 20–27°
Daily rainfall
Rain
168 mm
Hottest day
34.7°C
Coldest night
5.7°C
Soil temperature
19.2°C
Days in its best range
51 of 132
Days
132

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

Beefsteak Select. Kings#3645, by 2022

Planted out in main garden next to fence. Did not do well.

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Observations

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No frost reached this beefsteak tomato planting

Frost was possible until 15 Oct. We have no night temperatures for this beefsteak tomato planting. The beefsteak tomato planting went in on 22 Nov, 57 days after the usual last frost (26 Sep).

This beefsteak tomato 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, 15 Oct
Usual last frost
26 Sep
planted 57 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)

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Crop

Photo of beefsteak tomato

Beefsteak Tomato

Solanum lycopersicum

a variety of Tomato

  • 15 plantings
  • 3 harvests
  • An annual, living about 129 days
  • First harvest about 29 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 106 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other beefsteak tomato plantings at the same latitude.