New Zealand Spinach planting

grown by bluebec in Large circular bed · Northern Suburbs, Melbourne

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Harvest months

Spring

Summer

Autumn

Winter

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

over 11 years ago 2015-03-28

Progress

unknown no finish predicted

Quantity

7 seeds

Grown in

full sun

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Seed

Perennial

keeps growing year to year

Weather in Northern Suburbs, Melbourne New

Daily high and low

Too cold for New Zealand spinach so farFrom Mar 28 to Aug 18, 19 of 144 days had a high inside the best range of 19–28°C. The highs were below the best range on 125 days. The weather was too cold on 116 days (lows below 10°C).

2 °C frost lineGrows at 10–36°Grows best 19–28°

Daily rainfall

Nobody has marked this planting as finished, and it is long past when it should have finished, so the weather shown ends on August 18, 2015, when it was expected to finish.

Rain: 191 mm
Hottest day: 27.4°C
Coldest night: -0.9°C
Soil temperature: 11.1°C
Days in its best range: 19 of 144
Days: 144

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

Bloomsdale spinach, between garlic

Photos

No photos yet.

Observations

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

2015-03-28 Day 0

Planted

Frost

Experimental · new and might be flaky

Frost may have reached this New Zealand spinach planting

3 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was -0.9 °C.

This New Zealand spinach planting against the frost season

Frost danger

17 Jun – 27 Aug

16 Jun →

This planting

Finished 18 Aug

Planted 152 days before the usual last frost

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Usual frost danger
Possible: as early or late as it has come
Planting, finished

Coldest night

-0.9 °C

2.9 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line

Frost danger it grew through

93 days

from planting to the latest it has come, 14 Sep

Usual last frost

27 Aug

planted 152 days before 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)