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celery Celery planting

grown by shiny in Big main bed · Wellington, NZ

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393H Done

Planted 2025-08-03

Harvest started 2025-11-03

Finished 2025-11-03

(One emoji = 1 week)

Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

over 1 year ago 2025-08-03

Progress

Done 92 days

Quantity

6 seedlings

Grown in

sun

Rating

3 of 5

Short code

393H for plant markers and labels

Grown from

Seedling

Weather in Wellington, NZ New

Daily high and low
Too cold for celery so farFrom Aug 03 to Nov 03, 0 of 93 days had a high inside the best range of 18–25°C. The highs were below the best range on 93 days. The weather was too cold on 13 days (lows below 4°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at -1 °CGrows at 4–28°Grows best 18–25°
Daily rainfall
Rain
220 mm
Hottest day
15.7°C
Coldest night
2.4°C
Soil temperature
9.8°C
Days in its best range
0 of 93
Days
93

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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20251028_181626
by shiny
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by shiny
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by shiny

Observations

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

  1. Day 0
    Planted

No frost reached this celery planting

Frost was possible until 1 Oct, and no night in that time was colder than 2.4 °C. The celery planting went in on 3 Aug, 26 days before the usual last frost (29 Aug).

This celery planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
2.4 °C
0.4 °C above the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
60 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 1 Oct
Usual last frost
29 Aug
planted 26 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

Photo of celery

Celery

Apium graveolens var. dulce

  • 30 plantings
  • 7 harvests
  • An annual, living about 146 days
  • First harvest about 92 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 232 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other celery plantings at the same latitude.