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brandywine tomato grown by shiny
  1. Sown 2019-09-29
  2. First harvest 2020-03-16
  3. Last harvest 2020-04-04
  4. Finished 2020-04-05

Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

about 7 years ago 2019-09-29

Progress

Done 189 days

Degree days

1,181 of about 1,155 needed

Quantity

8 seeds

Grown in

partial shade

Rating

not rated

Parent Seed

Hardiness

Tender A frost damages it Usual for the parent crop

Seeds saved

1 packet of seed

Weather in Wellington, New zealand New

Daily high and low
Too cold for brandywine tomato so farFrom Sep 29 to Apr 05, 7 of 190 days had a high inside the best range of 20–27°C. The highs were below the best range on 183 days. The weather was too cold on 18 days (lows below 7°C).
2 °C frost lineGrows at 7–35°Grows best 20–27°
Daily rainfall
Rain
472 mm
Hottest day
20.5°C
Coldest night
2.7°C
Soil temperature
15.1°C
Days in its best range
7 of 190
Days
190

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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Brandywine tomatoes
Brandywine tomatoes
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Brandywine tomatoes
Brandywine tomatoes
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Brandywine
Brandywine
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Brandywine tomato
Brandywine tomato
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Brandywine
Brandywine
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Brandywine
Brandywine
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IMG_20191216_181454
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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 brandywine tomato planting

Frost was possible until 1 Oct, and no night in that time was colder than 5.4 °C. The brandywine tomato planting went in on 29 Sep, 31 days after the usual last frost (29 Aug).

This brandywine tomato planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
5.4 °C
3.4 °C above the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
3 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

brandywine tomato

seeds saved by shiny
  • Wellington, NZ

Jobs

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Crop

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Brandywine Tomato

Solanum lycopersicum

a variety of Heirloom Tomato

  • 9 plantings
  • 5 harvests
  • An annual, living about 191 days
  • First harvest about 171 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other brandywine tomato plantings at the same latitude.