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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

about 5 years ago 2021-08-27

Progress

unknown no finish predicted

Quantity

27 bulbs

Grown in

semi-shade

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Bulb

Perennial

keeps growing year to year

Weather in salt spring island New

Daily high and low
Too cold for saffron so farFrom Aug 27 to Mar 10, 75 of 196 days had a high inside the best range of 7–19°C. The highs were below the best range on 117 days and above the best range on 4 days. The weather was too cold on 136 days (lows below 4°C).
2 °C frost lineGrows at 4–23°Grows best 7–19°
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 March 10, 2022, when it was expected to finish.

Rain
1,071 mm
Hottest day
20.2°C
Coldest night
-11.1°C
Soil temperature
3.4°C
Days in its best range
75 of 196
Days
196

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 in bed closest to house, where the apricot was

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 saffron planting

118 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was -11.1 °C.

This saffron planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
-11.1 °C
13.1 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
155 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 21 May
Usual last frost
8 May
planted 254 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 saffron

Saffron

Crocus sativus

  • 3 plantings
  • 1 harvest
  • A perennial
  • First harvest about 400 days after planting

World neighbours

Other saffron plantings at the same latitude.