Asparagus 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

almost 15 years ago 2011-12-05

Progress

unknown no finish predicted

Quantity

unknown seedlings

Grown in

partial shade

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Seedling

Perennial

keeps growing year to year

Weather in Canberra, ACT New

Daily high and low

Too cold for asparagus so farFrom Oct 04 to Oct 04, 209 of 366 days had a high inside the best range of 15–30°C. The low reached the killing temperature of -1°C on 20 days. The highs were below the best range on 134 days and above the best range on 23 days. The weather was too cold on 162 days (lows below 6°C).

2 °C frost lineDies at -1 °CGrows at 6–38°Grows best 15–30°

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 October 04, 2014, when it was expected to finish.

Rain: 488 mm
Hottest day: 36.7°C
Coldest night: -4.2°C
Soil temperature: 14.1°C
Days in its best range: 209 of 366
Days: 366

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

It's doing well.

Photos

No photos yet.

Observations

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

2011-12-05 Day 0

Planted

Frost

Experimental · new and might be flaky

Frost may have reached this asparagus planting

58 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was -4.2 °C.

This asparagus planting against the frost season

Frost danger

5 May – 13 Oct

5 May →

This planting

Finished 4 Oct

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

Coldest night

-4.2 °C

6.2 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line

Frost danger it grew through

215 days

from planting to the latest it has come, 12 Nov

Usual last frost

13 Oct

has come as late as 12 Nov

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)