Chives planting

grown by Mordae in Cash Crop Plot · Paeroa, New Zealand

All of Mordae's plantings

Harvest months

Spring

Summer

Autumn

Winter

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

about 12 years ago 2014-10-05

Progress

unknown no finish predicted

Quantity

5 root divisions

Grown in

sun

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Root division

Perennial

keeps growing year to year

Weather in Paeroa, New Zealand New

Daily high and low

Mixed conditions for chives so farFrom Oct 05 to Aug 19, 239 of 319 days had a high inside the best range of 10–20°C. The highs were below the best range on 19 days and above the best range on 61 days. The weather was too cold on 3 days (lows below 2°C).

2 °C frost lineGrows at 2–35°Grows best 10–20°

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 19, 2015, when it was expected to finish.

Rain: 826 mm
Hottest day: 24.6°C
Coldest night: 0.9°C
Soil temperature: 14.0°C
Days in its best range: 239 of 319
Days: 319

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

This will be an companion plant for the tomatoes, as they repel aphids and whitefly.

Photos

No photos yet.

Observations

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

2014-10-05 Day 0

Planted

Frost

Experimental · new and might be flaky

No frost reached this chives planting

Frost was possible until 6 Oct, and no night in that time was colder than 7.4 °C. The chives planting went in on 5 Oct, 30 days after the usual last frost (5 Sep).

This chives planting against the frost season

Frost danger

6 Jun – 5 Sep

6 Jun →

This planting

Finished 19 Aug

Planted 30 days after the usual last frost

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Usual frost danger
Possible: as early or late as it has come
Planting, finished

Coldest night

7.4 °C

5.4 °C above the 2 °C frost danger line

Frost danger it grew through

102 days

from planting to the latest it has come, 6 Oct

Usual last frost

5 Sep

planted 30 days after 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)