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lemongrass Lemongrass planting

grown by jok in Garden · Surrey UK

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Planted

over 13 years ago 2013-08-13

Progress

unknown no finish predicted

Quantity

10 plants

Grown in

sun

Rating

not rated

Perennial

keeps growing year to year

Weather in Surrey UK New

Daily high and low
Too cold for lemongrass so farFrom Aug 13 to Nov 08, 3 of 88 days had a high inside the best range of 24–30°C. The highs were below the best range on 85 days. The weather was too cold on 88 days (lows below 18°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at 0 °CGrows at 18–34°Grows best 24–30°
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 November 08, 2013, when it was expected to finish.

Rain
237 mm
Hottest day
27.0°C
Coldest night
3.5°C
Soil temperature
14.3°C
Days in its best range
3 of 88
Days
88

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

Seedlings still in the propagator as too cold to plant in the Herb bed.

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  1. Day 0
    Planted

No frost reached this lemongrass planting

Frost was possible until 11 May, and no night in that time was colder than 3.5 °C. The lemongrass planting went in on 13 Aug, 248 days before the usual last frost (18 Apr).

This lemongrass planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
3.5 °C
1.5 °C above the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
24 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 11 May
Usual last frost
18 Apr
planted 248 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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Lemongrass

Cymbopogon citratus

  • 11 plantings
  • 1 harvest
  • A perennial
  • First harvest about 355 days after planting
  • Usually grown in semi-shade