Turnip planting

grown by GoatLady in Goat Pasture · Culpeper County, Virginia, US

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Sown 2012-08-30
First harvest 2013-04-14 expected

No harvest months for this crop at this latitude yet.

Planted

about 14 years ago 2012-08-30

Progress

unknown no finish predicted

Degree days

994 of about 1,110 needed

Quantity

100 seeds

Grown in

partial shade

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Seed

Weather in Culpeper County, Virginia New

Daily high and low

Too cold for turnip so farFrom Aug 30 to Mar 18, 59 of 201 days had a high inside the best range of 17–30°C. The low reached the killing temperature of -1°C on 54 days. The highs were below the best range on 137 days and above the best range on 5 days. The weather was too cold on 131 days (lows below 5°C).

2 °C frost lineDies at -1 °CGrows at 5–41°Grows best 17–30°

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 18, 2013, when it was expected to finish.

Rain: 475 mm
Hottest day: 34.9°C
Coldest night: -9.1°C
Soil temperature: 8.8°C
Days in its best range: 59 of 201
Days: 201

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 purple top turnips as forage and to help break up compacted soil. greens and roots very palatable to goats who ate the tops then pulled the roots up and shared them with the chickens.

Photos

No photos yet.

Observations

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

2012-08-30 Day 0

Planted

Frost

Experimental · new and might be flaky

Frost may have reached this turnip planting

101 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was -9.1 °C.

This turnip planting against the frost season

Frost danger

1 Nov – 10 Apr

1 Nov →

This planting

Finished 18 Mar

Planted 223 days before the usual last frost

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Usual frost danger
Possible: as early or late as it has come
Planting, finished

Coldest night

-9.1 °C

11.1 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line

Frost danger it grew through

148 days

from planting to the latest it has come, 28 Apr

Usual last frost

10 Apr

planted 223 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)