Brandywine Tomato planting

grown by shiny in back yard shaded garden · Miramar, Wellington, New zealand

All of shiny's plantings

Done

Sown 2019-09-29
First harvest 2020-03-31 expected
Finished 2020-04-28

Harvest months

Spring

Summer

Autumn

Winter

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

about 7 years ago 2019-09-29

Progress

Done 212 days

Degree days

1,300 of about 1,155 needed

Quantity

3 seeds

Grown in

shade

Rating

not rated

Parent Seed

brandywine tomato

Grown from

Seed Your brandywine tomato packet

Hardiness

Tender A frost damages it Usual for the parent crop

Weather in Miramar, Wellington New

Daily high and low

Too cold for brandywine tomato so farFrom Sep 29 to Apr 28, 7 of 213 days had a high inside the best range of 20–27°C. The highs were below the best range on 206 days. The weather was too cold on 20 days (lows below 7°C).

2 °C frost lineGrows at 7–35°Grows best 20–27°

Daily rainfall

Rain: 513 mm
Hottest day: 20.5°C
Coldest night: 2.7°C
Soil temperature: 14.8°C
Days in its best range: 7 of 213
Days: 213

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 2019-12-17 0

Observations

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

2019-09-29 Day 0

Planted

Frost

Experimental · new and might be flaky

No frost reached this brandywine tomato planting

Frost was possible until 1 Oct, and no night in that time was colder than 5.4 °C. The brandywine tomato planting went in on 29 Sep, 31 days after the usual last frost (29 Aug).

This brandywine tomato planting against the frost season

Frost danger

23 Jun – 29 Aug

22 Jun →

This planting

Finished 28 Apr

Planted 31 days after the usual last frost

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

Coldest night

5.4 °C

3.4 °C above the 2 °C frost danger line

Frost danger it grew through

3 days

from planting to the latest it has come, 1 Oct

Usual last frost

29 Aug

planted 31 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)