kat

chives Chives planting

grown by kat in Garden · Brunswick, Victoria, Australia

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Harvest months

Spring
Summer
Autumn
Winter

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

over 15 years ago 2011-07-30

Progress

Done 5582 days

Quantity

2 seeds

Grown in

sun

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Seed

Perennial

keeps growing year to year

Weather in Brunswick, Victoria New

Daily high and low
Mixed conditions for chives so farFrom Nov 10 to Nov 09, 208 of 365 days had a high inside the best range of 10–20°C. The highs were above the best range on 157 days. The weather was too hot on 7 days (highs above 35°C) and too cold on 4 days (lows below 2°C).
2 °C frost lineGrows at 2–35°Grows best 10–20°
Daily rainfall
Rain
876 mm
Hottest day
42.8°C
Coldest night
1.1°C
Soil temperature
15.9°C
Days in its best range
208 of 365
Days
365

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

Chives are by the kitchen door, where they come in very handy.

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Frost

Experimental · new and might be flaky

Frost may have reached this chives planting

5 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was 1.1 °C.

This chives planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
1.1 °C
0.9 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
120 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 14 Sep
Usual last frost
27 Aug
has come as late as 14 Sep

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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Chives

Allium schoenoprasum

  • 49 plantings
  • 22 harvests
  • A perennial
  • First harvest about 51 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun
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