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  1. Sown 2015-03-02
  2. First harvest 2015-06-21 expected
  3. Last harvest 2016-01-16 expected
  4. Finished 2016-04-13

No harvest months for this crop at this latitude yet.

Planted

over 11 years ago 2015-03-02

Progress

Done 408 days

Degree days

4,287 of about 1,233 needed

Quantity

16 seeds

Grown in

full sun

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Seed

Weather in Wheaton-Glenmont, MD New

Daily high and low
Too hot and too cold for onion so farFrom Apr 14 to Apr 13, 152 of 366 days had a high inside the best range of 12–25°C. The highs were below the best range on 85 days and above the best range on 129 days. The weather was too hot on 53 days (highs above 30°C) and too cold on 100 days (lows below 4°C).
2 °C frost lineGrows at 4–30°Grows best 12–25°
Daily rainfall
Rain
881 mm
Hottest day
34.8°C
Coldest night
-12.6°C
Soil temperature
14.8°C
Days in its best range
152 of 366
Days
366

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

Variety: evergreen bunching

3/02: started seeds indoors

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Frost may have reached this onion planting

79 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was -12.6 °C.

This onion planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
-12.6 °C
14.6 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
179 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 20 Apr
Usual last frost
8 Apr
has come as late as 20 Apr

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

Photo of onion

Onion

Allium cepa

  • 84 plantings
  • 20 harvests
  • An annual, living about 235 days
  • First harvest about 252 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 320 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other onion plantings at the same latitude.