butterhead lettuce grown by shiny
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butterhead lettuce Butterhead Lettuce planting

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

All of shiny's plantings

Done
  1. Planted 2017-08-25
  2. Finished 2017-10-26
  3. First harvest 2017-11-06 expected
  4. Last harvest 2017-11-20 expected

Harvest months

Spring
Summer
Autumn
Winter

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

about 9 years ago 2017-08-25

Progress

Done 62 days

Degree days

314 of about 403 needed

Quantity

unknown plants

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Weather in Miramar, Wellington New

Daily high and low
Too cold for butterhead lettuce so farFrom Aug 25 to Oct 26, 39 of 63 days had a high inside the best range of 12–21°C. The highs were below the best range on 24 days. The weather was too cold on 5 days (lows below 5°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at 0 °CGrows at 5–30°Grows best 12–21°
Daily rainfall
Rain
218 mm
Hottest day
16.2°C
Coldest night
2.9°C
Soil temperature
10.7°C
Days in its best range
39 of 63
Days
63

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

Frost

Experimental · new and might be flaky

No frost reached this butterhead lettuce planting

Frost was possible until 1 Oct, and no night in that time was colder than 2.9 °C. The butterhead lettuce planting went in on 25 Aug, 4 days before the usual last frost (29 Aug).

This butterhead lettuce planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
2.9 °C
0.9 °C above the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
38 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 1 Oct
Usual last frost
29 Aug
planted 4 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 butterhead lettuce

Butterhead Lettuce

Lactuca sativa var. capitata

a variety of Lettuce

  • 7 plantings
  • 8 harvests
  • An annual, living about 76 days
  • First harvest about 62 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 87 days after planting
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