Meg

Chard planting

grown by Meg in Indoor seedling trays · Melbourne

All of Meg's plantings

Done
  1. Planted 2013-03-30
  2. First harvest 2013-07-11 expected
  3. Last harvest 2013-09-21 expected
  4. Finished 2013-12-12 expected

Harvest months

Spring
Summer
Autumn
Winter

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

over 13 years ago 2013-03-30

Progress

Done Finished

Degree days

29,618 of about 750 needed

Quantity

6 plants

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Weather in Melbourne New

Daily high and low
2 °C frost lineGrows at 5–35°Grows best 15–25°
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
217 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

Silverbeet 'perpetual'. Green Harvest seeds.

Photos

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Observations

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

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    Planted

Frost

Experimental · new and might be flaky

No frost reached this chard planting

Frost was possible until 14 Sep. We have no night temperatures for this chard planting. The chard planting went in on 30 Mar, 150 days before the usual last frost (27 Aug).

This chard planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Frost danger it grew through
120 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 14 Sep
Usual last frost
27 Aug
planted 150 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)

Harvests

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Seeds saved

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Jobs

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Crop

Photo of chard

Chard

Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla

  • 28 plantings
  • 14 harvests
  • An annual, living about 257 days
  • First harvest about 120 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 175 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun
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