Artichoke planting

grown by piranha in Front Garden · East Coast, Central Vancouver Island, BC, Canada

All of piranha's plantings

No harvest months for this crop at this latitude yet.

Planted

over 13 years ago 2013-05-23

Progress

unknown no finish predicted

Quantity

1 plant

Grown in

full sun

Rating

not rated

Perennial

keeps growing year to year

Weather in East Coast, Central Vancouver Island New

Daily high and low

Too cold for artichoke so farFrom May 23 to Apr 25, 65 of 338 days had a high inside the best range of 15–25°C. The low reached the killing temperature of 0°C on 193 days. The highs were below the best range on 273 days. The weather was too cold on 251 days (lows below 5°C).

2 °C frost lineDies at 0 °CGrows at 5–30°Grows best 15–25°

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 April 25, 2014, when it was expected to finish.

Rain: 1,070 mm
Hottest day: 23.9°C
Coldest night: -16.3°C
Soil temperature: 3.4°C
Days in its best range: 65 of 338
Days: 338

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 "green globe", growing in large blue pot. first time i've ever tried to grow artichoke.

Photos

No photos yet.

Observations

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

2013-05-23 Day 0

Planted

Frost

Experimental · new and might be flaky

Frost may have reached this artichoke planting

14 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was -1.2 °C.

This artichoke planting against the frost season

Frost danger

26 Aug – 24 Jun

26 Aug →

This planting

Finished 25 Apr

Planted 32 days before the usual last frost

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

Coldest night

-1.2 °C

3.2 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line

Frost danger it grew through

338 days

from planting to the latest it has come, 30 Jun

Usual last frost

24 Jun

planted 32 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)