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Planted 2013-01-20

First harvest expected 2013-04-30

Finish expected 2013-06-08

(One emoji = 1 week)

Harvest months

Spring
September
October, usually harvesting
November, usually harvesting
Summer
December, usually harvesting
January, usually harvesting
February, usually harvesting
Autumn
March, usually harvesting
April, usually harvesting
May, usually harvesting
Winter
June, usually harvesting
July
August

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

almost 14 years ago 2013-01-20

Progress

Done Finished

Quantity

5 seedlings

Grown in

sun

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Seedling

Weather in Melbourne, Victoria New

Daily high and low
2 °C frost lineGrows at 7–36°Grows best 18–27°
Daily rainfall
Rain
861 mm
Hottest day
42.8°C
Coldest night
1.1°C
Soil temperature
15.9°C
Days in its best range
146 of 361
Days
361

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

These have all died off July 2013.

Photos

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Observations

Nothing noticed yet. Note when it flowers, fruits, wilts or falls ill.

  1. Day 0
    Planted

No frost reached this basil planting

Frost was possible until 14 Sep. We have no night temperatures for this basil planting. The basil planting went in on 20 Jan, 219 days before the usual last frost (27 Aug).

This basil planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Frost danger it grew through
22 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 14 Sep
Usual last frost
27 Aug
planted 219 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

Photo of basil

Basil

Ocimum basilicum

  • 161 plantings
  • 33 harvests
  • An annual, living about 139 days
  • First harvest about 56 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 59 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other basil plantings at the same latitude.