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Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

about 9 years ago 2017-09-29

Progress

Done 254 days

Quantity

3 roots/tubers

Grown in

shade

Rating

not rated

Parent Seed

Grown from

Root/tuber Your ginger packet

Perennial

keeps growing year to year

Seeds saved

1 packet of seed

Weather in Miramar, Wellington New

Daily high and low
Too cold for ginger so farFrom Sep 29 to Jun 10, 66 of 255 days had a high inside the best range of 19–29°C. The highs were below the best range on 189 days. The weather was too cold on 181 days (lows below 13°C).
2 °C frost lineGrows at 13–35°Grows best 19–29°
Daily rainfall
Rain
675 mm
Hottest day
24.6°C
Coldest night
3.2°C
Soil temperature
15.2°C
Days in its best range
66 of 255
Days
255

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

2018-04-02 Moved into pot indoor for winter

Photos

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Observations

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

  1. Day 0
    Planted

No frost reached this ginger planting

Frost was possible until 1 Oct, and no night in that time was colder than 6.6 °C. The ginger planting went in on 29 Sep, 31 days after the usual last frost (29 Aug).

This ginger planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
6.6 °C
4.6 °C above the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
10 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)

Harvests

Seeds saved

ginger

seeds saved by shiny
  • Wellington, NZ

Jobs

This was the last planting recently in this bed. Would you like to cultivate the soil soon? Cultivate soil

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Crop

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Ginger

Zingiber officinale

  • 10 plantings
  • 1 harvest
  • A perennial
  • First harvest about 253 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other ginger plantings at the same latitude.