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elephant garlic grown by shiny
  1. Planted 2018-05-20
  2. First harvest 2019-01-15
  3. Finished 2019-01-15

Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

over 8 years ago 2018-05-20

Progress

Done 240 days

Degree days

1,066 of about 1,800 needed

Quantity

3 bulbs

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Parent Seed

Grown from

Bulb Your elephant garlic packet

Weather in Miramar, Wellington New

Daily high and low
Too cold for elephant garlic so farFrom May 20 to Jan 15, 26 of 241 days had a high inside the best range of 18–24°C. The highs were below the best range on 215 days. The weather was too cold on 65 days (lows below 6°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at -5 °CGrows at 6–27°Grows best 18–24°
Daily rainfall
Rain
751 mm
Hottest day
22.2°C
Coldest night
1.2°C
Soil temperature
11.4°C
Days in its best range
26 of 241
Days
241

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
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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

Frost may have reached this elephant garlic planting

3 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was 1.2 °C.

This elephant garlic planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
1.2 °C
0.8 °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 101 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

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Elephant Garlic

Allium ampeloprasum var. ampeloprasum

a variety of Leek

  • 4 plantings
  • 1 harvest
  • An annual, living about 240 days
  • First harvest about 240 days after planting
  • Usually grown in semi-shade

World neighbours

Other elephant garlic plantings at the same latitude.