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dandelion Dandelion planting

grown by Meg in Indoor seedling trays · Melbourne

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  1. Planted 2013-03-30
  2. First harvest 2013-09-15 expected

No harvest months for this crop at this latitude yet.

Planted

over 13 years ago 2013-03-30

Progress

unknown no finish predicted

Degree days

926 of about 1,170 needed

Quantity

6 plants

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Weather in Melbourne New

Daily high and low
Too cold for dandelion so farFrom Mar 30 to Aug 12, 72 of 136 days had a high inside the best range of 14–22°C. The low reached the killing temperature of 0°C on 1 day. The highs were below the best range on 52 days and above the best range on 12 days. The weather was too hot on 1 day (highs above 26°C) and too cold on 24 days (lows below 5°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at 0 °CGrows at 5–26°Grows best 14–22°
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 August 12, 2013, when it was expected to finish.

Rain
220 mm
Hottest day
26.4°C
Coldest night
-0.3°C
Soil temperature
11.7°C
Days in its best range
72 of 136
Days
136

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

Dente di leone. Franchi seeds.

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Observations

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

  1. Day 0
    Planted

Frost may have reached this dandelion planting

9 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was -0.3 °C.

This dandelion planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
-0.3 °C
2.3 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
87 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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Crop

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Dandelion

Taraxacum officinale

  • 1 planting
  • An annual