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  1. Planted 2013-06-12
  2. First harvest 2013-09-11 expected
  3. Last harvest 2013-10-19 expected
  4. Finished 2013-10-19 expected

Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

over 13 years ago 2013-06-12

Progress

Done Finished

Degree days

4,917 of about 1,435 needed

Quantity

500 plants

Grown in

full sun

Rating

not rated

Weather in Turners Falls, MA New

Daily high and low
2 °C frost lineDies at 0 °CGrows at 5–45°Grows best 17–34°
Daily rainfall
Rain
925 mm
Hottest day
35.4°C
Coldest night
-24.3°C
Soil temperature
9.6°C
Days in its best range
176 of 361
Days
361

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

Made a large plot for a living wall.

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Observations

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

  1. Day 0
    Planted

No frost reached this sunflower planting

Frost was possible until 14 May. We have no night temperatures for this sunflower planting. The sunflower planting went in on 12 Jun, 41 days after the usual last frost (2 May).

This sunflower planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Frost danger it grew through
0 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 14 May
Usual last frost
2 May
planted 41 days after 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 sunflower

Sunflower

Helianthus annuus

  • 60 plantings
  • 9 harvests
  • An annual, living about 95 days
  • First harvest about 128 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 129 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other sunflower plantings at the same latitude.