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rutabaga Rutabaga planting

grown by kavita in QAPP · Seattle, WA

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  1. Sown 2016-08-24
  2. First harvest 2026-01-29 expected

No harvest months for this crop at this latitude yet.

Planted

about 10 years ago 2016-08-24

Progress

unknown no finish predicted

Degree days

758 of about 2,520 needed

Quantity

16 seeds

Grown in

full sun

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Seed

Weather in Seattle, WA New

Daily high and low
Too cold for rutabaga so farFrom Aug 24 to Feb 20, 62 of 181 days had a high inside the best range of 14–24°C. The low reached the killing temperature of -1°C on 33 days. The highs were below the best range on 115 days and above the best range on 4 days. The weather was too cold on 87 days (lows below 5°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at -1 °CGrows at 5–35°Grows best 14–24°
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 February 20, 2017, when it was expected to finish.

Rain
914 mm
Hottest day
31.1°C
Coldest night
-8.6°C
Soil temperature
8.2°C
Days in its best range
62 of 181
Days
181

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 may have reached this rutabaga planting

64 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was -8.6 °C.

This rutabaga planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
-8.6 °C
10.6 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
128 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 7 May
Usual last frost
22 Apr
planted 241 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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Rutabaga

Brassica napus Napobrassica group

a variety of Brassica

  • 4 plantings
  • An annual
  • Usually grown in semi-shade

World neighbours

Other rutabaga plantings at the same latitude.