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rainbow chard Rainbow Chard planting

grown by shiny in Big main bed · Wellington, NZ

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Done

Planted 2026-02-22

Harvest started 2026-10-15

Finished 2026-10-31

  • rainbow chard
  • rainbow chard
(One emoji = 1 week)

Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

9 months ago 2026-02-22

Progress

Done 251 days

Quantity

1 plant

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Weather in Wellington, NZ New

Daily high and low
Too cold for rainbow chard so farFrom Feb 22 to Oct 31, 51 of 252 days had a high inside the best range of 15–25°C. The highs were below the best range on 201 days. The weather was too cold on 30 days (lows below 5°C).
2 °C frost lineGrows at 5–35°Grows best 15–25°
Daily rainfall
Rain
721 mm
Hottest day
20.1°C
Coldest night
1.1°C
Soil temperature
11.0°C
Days in its best range
51 of 252
Days
252

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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by shiny

Observations

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

  1. Day 0
    Planted

Frost may have reached this rainbow chard planting

3 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was 1.1 °C.

This rainbow chard planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
1.1 °C
0.9 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
120 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 1 Oct
Usual last frost
29 Aug
planted 188 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)

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Crop

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Rainbow Chard

Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris

a variety of Chard

  • 21 plantings
  • 12 harvests
  • An annual, living about 251 days
  • First harvest about 82 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 240 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other rainbow chard plantings at the same latitude.