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Cesy

Basil planting

grown by Cesy in Planter boxes · London, UK

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Done
  1. Sown 2015-07-09
  2. First harvest 2015-09-03 expected
  3. Last harvest 2015-09-06 expected
  4. Finished 2016-03-01

No harvest months for this crop at this latitude yet.

Planted

over 11 years ago 2015-07-09

Progress

Done 236 days

Degree days

1,073 of about 1,240 needed

Quantity

1 seed

Grown in

partial shade

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Seed

Weather in London, UK New

Daily high and low
Too cold for basil so farFrom Jul 09 to Jan 15, 51 of 191 days had a high inside the best range of 18–27°C. The highs were below the best range on 139 days and above the best range on 1 day. The weather was too cold on 44 days (lows below 7°C).
2 °C frost lineGrows at 7–36°Grows best 18–27°
Daily rainfall
Rain
435 mm
Hottest day
27.4°C
Coldest night
-2.2°C
Soil temperature
12.8°C
Days in its best range
51 of 191
Days
191

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

Planted a load of herb seeds. Let's see what appears.

Photos

2015-07-09 10.53.18
2015-07-09 10.53.18
by Cesy

Observations

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

  1. Day 0
    Planted

Frost may have reached this basil planting

8 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was -2.2 °C.

This basil planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
-2.2 °C
4.2 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
135 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 6 May
Usual last frost
16 Apr
planted 282 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)

Harvests

No harvests recorded yet.

Seeds saved

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Jobs

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Crop

Photo of basil

Basil

Ocimum basilicum

  • 161 plantings
  • 33 harvests
  • An annual, living about 139 days
  • First harvest about 56 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 59 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

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