Apple planting

grown by Brooke in Brooke's Garden · Canberra, ACT, Australia

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Harvest months

Spring

Summer

Autumn

Winter

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

about 14 years ago 2012-10-01

Progress

unknown no finish predicted

Quantity

1 seedling

Grown in

full sun

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Seedling

Perennial

keeps growing year to year

Weather in Canberra, ACT New

Daily high and low

Too cold for apple so farFrom Oct 01 to Jul 15, 175 of 288 days had a high inside the best range of 14–27°C. The low reached the killing temperature of -2°C on 4 days. The highs were below the best range on 72 days and above the best range on 41 days. The weather was too hot on 7 days (highs above 33°C) and too cold on 123 days (lows below 8°C).

2 °C frost lineDies at -2 °CGrows at 8–33°Grows best 14–27°

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 July 15, 2013, when it was expected to finish.

Rain: 409 mm
Hottest day: 36.6°C
Coldest night: -2.5°C
Soil temperature: 15.6°C
Days in its best range: 175 of 288
Days: 288

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

Seems to be coping with the clay soil.

Photos

No photos yet.

Observations

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

2012-10-01 Day 0

Planted

Frost

Experimental · new and might be flaky

Frost may have reached this apple planting

4 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was 0.3 °C.

This apple planting against the frost season

Frost danger

4 May – 12 Oct

5 May →

This planting

Finished 15 Jul

Planted 11 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

0.3 °C

1.7 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line

Frost danger it grew through

136 days

from planting to the latest it has come, 11 Nov

Usual last frost

12 Oct

planted 11 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)