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Cherokee purple tomato Cherokee Purple Tomato planting

grown by Fuchsia in Main yard garden · Portland, OR

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Done
  1. Planted 2015-04-19
  2. First harvest 2015-08-04 expected
  3. Finished 2015-10-01

No harvest months for this crop at this latitude yet.

Planted

over 11 years ago 2015-04-19

Progress

Done 165 days

Degree days

1,816 of about 1,155 needed

Quantity

3 seedlings

Grown in

full sun

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Seedling

Hardiness

Tender A frost damages it Usual for the parent crop

Weather in Portland, OR New

Daily high and low
Too cold for Cherokee purple tomato so farFrom Apr 19 to Oct 01, 69 of 166 days had a high inside the best range of 20–27°C. The highs were below the best range on 44 days and above the best range on 53 days. The weather was too hot on 7 days (highs above 35°C) and too cold on 20 days (lows below 7°C).
2 °C frost lineGrows at 7–35°Grows best 20–27°
Daily rainfall
Rain
99 mm
Hottest day
38.0°C
Coldest night
3.4°C
Soil temperature
19.4°C
Days in its best range
69 of 166
Days
166

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

Starts grown from seed. Planted early because of warm weather.

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    Planted

No frost reached this Cherokee purple tomato planting

Frost was possible until 10 May, and no night in that time was colder than 3.4 °C. The Cherokee purple tomato planting went in on 19 Apr, 4 days before the usual last frost (23 Apr).

This Cherokee purple tomato planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
3.4 °C
1.4 °C above the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
22 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 10 May
Usual last frost
23 Apr
planted 4 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 Cherokee purple tomato

Cherokee Purple Tomato

Solanum lycopersicum

a variety of Tomato

  • 2 plantings
  • An annual, living about 165 days
  • Usually grown in semi-shade