Chard planting

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

All of shiny's plantings

Done

Planted 2019-03-05
First harvest 2019-07-27
Last harvest 2019-09-19
Finished 2019-11-17

Harvest months

Spring

Summer

Autumn

Winter

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

over 7 years ago 2019-03-05

Progress

Done 257 days

Degree days

1,363 of about 750 needed

Quantity

2 seedlings

Grown in

shade

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Seedling

Weather in Miramar, Wellington New

Daily high and low

Too cold for chard so farFrom Mar 05 to Nov 17, 43 of 258 days had a high inside the best range of 15–25°C. The highs were below the best range on 215 days. The weather was too cold on 48 days (lows below 5°C).

2 °C frost lineGrows at 5–35°Grows best 15–25°

Daily rainfall

Rain: 907 mm
Hottest day: 19.4°C
Coldest night: -1.3°C
Soil temperature: 10.7°C
Days in its best range: 43 of 258
Days: 258

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

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Photos

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Observations

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

2019-03-05 Day 0

Planted

Frost

Experimental · new and might be flaky

Frost may have reached this chard planting

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

This chard planting against the frost season

Frost danger

23 Jun – 29 Aug

22 Jun →

This planting

Finished 17 Nov

Planted 177 days before the usual last frost

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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 177 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)