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chamomile grown by futuransky

Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

over 11 years ago 2015-04-12

Progress

unknown no finish predicted

Quantity

1 seedling

Grown in

sun

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Seedling

Perennial

keeps growing year to year

Weather in Takoma Park, MD New

Daily high and low
Too hot and too cold for chamomile so farFrom Apr 12 to Jan 22, 59 of 286 days had a high inside the best range of 19–25°C. The low reached the killing temperature of 0°C on 25 days. The highs were below the best range on 101 days and above the best range on 126 days. The weather was too hot on 53 days (highs above 30°C) and too cold on 60 days (lows below 6°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at 0 °CGrows at 6–30°Grows best 19–25°
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 January 22, 2016, when it was expected to finish.

Rain
719 mm
Hottest day
34.8°C
Coldest night
-10.2°C
Soil temperature
17.2°C
Days in its best range
59 of 286
Days
286

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

Organic chamomile plant from Takoma Park Co-op.

Photos

Camomile
Camomile
by futuransky
2015-04-19 17.03.59
2015-04-19 17.03.59
by futuransky

Observations

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

  1. Day 0
    Planted

No frost reached this chamomile planting

Frost was possible until 21 Apr, and no night in that time was colder than 5 °C. The chamomile planting went in on 12 Apr, 3 days after the usual last frost (9 Apr).

This chamomile planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
5 °C
3 °C above the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
99 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 21 Apr
Usual last frost
9 Apr
planted 3 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)

Harvests

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Jobs

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Crop

Photo of chamomile

Chamomile

Matricaria chamomila

  • 11 plantings
  • 12 harvests
  • A perennial
  • First harvest about 81 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other chamomile plantings at the same latitude.