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Swiss chard grown by shiny
  1. Planted 2018-01-02
  2. First harvest 2018-01-30
  3. Last harvest 2018-05-02
  4. Finished 2018-11-22

Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

almost 9 years ago 2018-01-02

Progress

Done 324 days

Degree days

2,129 of about 750 needed

Quantity

unknown plants

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Weather in Miramar, Wellington New

Daily high and low
Too cold for Swiss chard so farFrom Jan 02 to Nov 22, 109 of 325 days had a high inside the best range of 15–25°C. The highs were below the best range on 216 days. The weather was too cold on 44 days (lows below 5°C).
2 °C frost lineGrows at 5–35°Grows best 15–25°
Daily rainfall
Rain
1,053 mm
Hottest day
24.6°C
Coldest night
1.2°C
Soil temperature
12.4°C
Days in its best range
109 of 325
Days
325

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

IMG_20180127_201913
IMG_20180127_201913
by shiny
IMG_20180103_093527
IMG_20180103_093527
by shiny

Observations

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

  1. Day 0
    Planted

Frost may have reached this Swiss chard planting

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

This Swiss chard 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 239 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

Photo of Swiss chard

Swiss Chard

Beta vulgaris var. cicla

a variety of Chard

  • 45 plantings
  • 20 harvests
  • An annual, living about 179 days
  • First harvest about 66 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 177 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other Swiss chard plantings at the same latitude.