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Stewart island potato grown by shiny
Done
  1. Sown 2019-02-12
  2. First harvest 2020-02-03
  3. Finished 2020-02-03

Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

almost 8 years ago 2019-02-12

Progress

Done 356 days

Degree days

1,575 of about 1,170 needed

Quantity

unknown plants

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Parent Seed

Seeds saved

1 packet of seed

Weather in Miramar, Wellington New

Daily high and low
Too cold for Stewart island potato so farFrom Feb 12 to Feb 03, 125 of 357 days had a high inside the best range of 15–25°C. The low reached the killing temperature of 0°C on 1 day. The highs were below the best range on 232 days. The weather was too cold on 110 days (lows below 7°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at 0 °CGrows at 7–30°Grows best 15–25°
Daily rainfall
Rain
1,091 mm
Hottest day
20.9°C
Coldest night
-1.3°C
Soil temperature
12.3°C
Days in its best range
125 of 357
Days
357

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

Observations

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

  1. Day 0
    Planted

Frost may have reached this Stewart island potato planting

One night while frost was possible was at or below 2 °C. The coldest was -1.3 °C.

This Stewart island potato planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
-1.3 °C
3.3 °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 198 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

Seeds saved

Stewart island potato saved 2020

Stewart island potato

seeds saved by shiny
  • heirloom
  • Wellington, NZ

Jobs

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Crop

Photo of Stewart island potato

Stewart Island Potato

a variety of Potato

  • 3 plantings
  • 2 harvests
  • An annual, living about 235 days
  • First harvest about 356 days after planting

World neighbours

Other Stewart island potato plantings at the same latitude.