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  1. Planted 2020-03-21
  2. Finished 2020-04-01
  3. First harvest 2020-08-01 expected
  4. Last harvest 2020-09-24 expected

Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

over 6 years ago 2020-03-21

Progress

Done 11 days

Degree days

0 of about 1,280 needed

Quantity

35 seedlings

Grown in

full sun

Rating

not rated

Parent Seed

Grown from

Seedling Your kabocha packet

Weather in salt spring island New

Daily high and low
Too cold for kabocha so farFrom Mar 21 to Apr 01, 0 of 12 days had a high inside the best range of 20–30°C. The highs were below the best range on 12 days. The weather was too cold on 12 days (lows below 9°C).
2 °C frost lineGrows at 9–38°Grows best 20–30°
Daily rainfall
Rain
41 mm
Hottest day
9.0°C
Coldest night
-3.2°C
Soil temperature
2.2°C
Days in its best range
0 of 12
Days
12

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

Watcher's Keep landrace f1

Photos

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Observations

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

  1. Day 0
    Planted

Frost may have reached this kabocha planting

11 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was -3.2 °C.

This kabocha planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
-3.2 °C
5.2 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
12 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 20 May
Usual last frost
7 May
planted 47 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)

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Crop

Photo of kabocha

Kabocha

Cucurbita maxima

a variety of Cucurbita Maxima

  • 15 plantings
  • 8 harvests
  • An annual, living about 148 days
  • First harvest about 133 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 187 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other kabocha plantings at the same latitude.