greenwytch

Chard planting

grown by greenwytch in Back Vege Patch · Christchurch, New Zealand

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  1. Planted 2024-04-07
  2. First harvest 2024-09-26 expected
  3. Last harvest 2024-09-29 expected
  4. Finished 2024-12-20 expected

Harvest months

Spring
Summer
Autumn
Winter

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

over 2 years ago 2024-04-07

Progress

100%
day 952 of 257

Degree days

1,518 of about 750 needed

Quantity

unknown plants

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Weather in Christchurch, New Zealand New

Daily high and low
Too cold for chard so farFrom Apr 07 to Dec 20, 111 of 258 days had a high inside the best range of 15–25°C. The highs were below the best range on 142 days and above the best range on 5 days. The weather was too cold on 73 days (lows below 5°C).
2 °C frost lineGrows at 5–35°Grows best 15–25°
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 December 20, 2024, when it was expected to finish.

Rain
407 mm
Hottest day
28.3°C
Coldest night
-0.6°C
Soil temperature
11.6°C
Days in its best range
111 of 258
Days
258

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.

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Frost

Experimental · new and might be flaky

Frost may have reached this chard planting

20 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was -0.6 °C.

This chard planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
-0.6 °C
2.6 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
158 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 14 Oct
Usual last frost
25 Sep
planted 171 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

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Chard

Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla

  • 28 plantings
  • 14 harvests
  • An annual, living about 257 days
  • First harvest about 120 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 175 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun
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