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Done
  1. Sown 2016-11-11
  2. First harvest 2017-01-28
  3. Last harvest 2017-03-09
  4. Finished 2017-05-26

Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

about 10 years ago 2016-11-11

Progress

Done 196 days

Degree days

1,163 of about 1,240 needed

Quantity

10 seeds

Grown in

full sun

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Seed

Weather in Wellington, New zealand New

Daily high and low
Too cold for basil so farFrom Nov 11 to May 26, 24 of 197 days had a high inside the best range of 18–27°C. The highs were below the best range on 173 days. The weather was too cold on 20 days (lows below 7°C).
2 °C frost lineGrows at 7–36°Grows best 18–27°
Daily rainfall
Rain
642 mm
Hottest day
21.7°C
Coldest night
2.4°C
Soil temperature
14.2°C
Days in its best range
24 of 197
Days
197

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.

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 30 Sep. We have no night temperatures for this basil planting. The basil planting went in on 11 Nov, 75 days after the usual last frost (28 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
0 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 30 Sep
Usual last frost
28 Aug
planted 75 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)

Harvests

basil harvest
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Crop

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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.