iceberg lettuce grown by shiny
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iceberg lettuce Iceberg Lettuce planting

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

All of shiny's plantings

Done
  1. Planted 2017-04-07
  2. First harvest 2017-06-08
  3. Finished 2017-07-29

Harvest months

Spring
Summer
Autumn
Winter

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

over 9 years ago 2017-04-07

Progress

Done 113 days

Degree days

485 of about 403 needed

Quantity

6 seedlings

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Seedling

Weather in Miramar, Wellington New

Daily high and low
Too cold for iceberg lettuce so farFrom Apr 07 to Jul 29, 47 of 114 days had a high inside the best range of 12–21°C. The highs were below the best range on 67 days. The weather was too cold on 31 days (lows below 5°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at 0 °CGrows at 5–30°Grows best 12–21°
Daily rainfall
Rain
450 mm
Hottest day
17.7°C
Coldest night
2.0°C
Soil temperature
9.3°C
Days in its best range
47 of 114
Days
114

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

Frost may have reached this iceberg lettuce planting

One night while frost was possible was at or below 2 °C. The coldest was 2 °C.

This iceberg lettuce planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
2 °C
Right on the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
56 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 1 Oct
Usual last frost
29 Aug
planted 144 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

iceberg lettuce
iceberg lettuce harvest
leaf
picked 2017-06-08 by shiny

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Crop

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Iceberg Lettuce

Lactuca sativa var. capitata

a variety of Lettuce

  • 12 plantings
  • 7 harvests
  • An annual, living about 89 days
  • First harvest about 50 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 59 days after planting
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