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Planted 2018-03-12

Harvest started 2018-05-31

Finished 2018-05-30

(One emoji = 1 week)

Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

over 8 years ago 2018-03-12

Progress

Done 79 days

Quantity

unknown roots/tubers

Grown in

sun

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Root/tuber

Weather in Wellington, New Zealand New

Daily high and low
Too cold for potato so farFrom Mar 12 to May 30, 36 of 80 days had a high inside the best range of 15–25°C. The highs were below the best range on 44 days. The weather was too cold on 18 days (lows below 7°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at 0 °CGrows at 7–30°Grows best 15–25°
Daily rainfall
Rain
279 mm
Hottest day
19.4°C
Coldest night
3.2°C
Soil temperature
12.7°C
Days in its best range
36 of 80
Days
80

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

2018-03-25 covered with dirt again

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 potato planting

Frost was possible until 1 Oct. We have no night temperatures for this potato planting. The potato planting went in on 12 Mar, 170 days before the usual last frost (29 Aug).

This potato planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Frost danger it grew through
0 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 1 Oct
Usual last frost
29 Aug
planted 170 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)

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Crop

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Potato

Solanum tuberosum

  • 73 plantings
  • 31 harvests
  • An annual, living about 112 days
  • First harvest about 118 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 112 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other potato plantings at the same latitude.