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potato Potato planting

grown by shiny in Big main bed · Wellington, NZ

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Planted 2026-09-03

First harvest expected 2026-12-30

Finish expected 2026-12-24

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Harvest months

Spring
Summer
Autumn
Winter

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

2 months ago 2026-09-03

Progress

64% day 72 of 112

Quantity

unknown volunteers

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Volunteer

Weather in Wellington, NZ New

Daily high and low
Too cold for potato so farFrom Sep 03 to Nov 09, 11 of 68 days had a high inside the best range of 15–25°C. The highs were below the best range on 57 days. The weather was too cold on 27 days (lows below 7°C).
Expected to suit potatoGoing by last year's weather, 32 of the 45 days from Nov 10 to Dec 24 should have a high inside the best range of 15–25°C. The highs could be below the best range on 13 days.
Latest, Nov 09: 14.6°C / 11.4°C2 °C frost lineDies at 0 °CGrows at 7–30°Grows best 15–25°
Daily rainfall
Latest, Nov 09: 0.9 mm

The dotted lines and bars are expected weather, last year's data for the same days moved forward a year. They are not observed.

Rain
193 mm
Hottest day
18.3°C
Coldest night
3.3°C
Soil temperature
11.9°C
Days in its best range
11 of 68
Days
68

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

mystery potato - voluteer

Photos

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Observations

  1. Day 72
    Flowering
  2. Day 0
    Planted

Frost

Experimental · new and might be flaky

Frost danger has passed for this potato planting

The latest a frost has come in past years is 1 Oct, 44 days ago. The potato planting went in on 3 Sep, 5 days after the usual last frost (29 Aug).

This potato planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting so far
  • Planting still to come
Coldest night
3.3 °C
1.3 °C above the 2 °C frost danger line
Usual last frost
29 Aug
has come as late as 1 Oct
Next frost danger starts
23 Jun
as early as 4 Jun, 181 days after this potato planting finishes
Frost-free season
295 days
in a typical year

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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Potato

Solanum tuberosum

  • 73 plantings
  • 31 harvests
  • An annual, living about 112 days
  • First harvest about 118 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 112 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun
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