onion grown by shiny
shiny

Onion planting

grown by shiny in Front lawn 1 tahi · Wellington, New Zealand

All of shiny's plantings

Done
  1. Planted 2020-01-17
  2. First harvest 2020-10-26
  3. Finished 2020-10-31
  4. Last harvest 2020-11-02

Harvest months

Spring
Summer
Autumn
Winter

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

almost 7 years ago 2020-01-17

Progress

Done 288 days

Degree days

2,015 of about 1,233 needed

Quantity

unknown seedlings

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Seedling

Weather in Wellington, New Zealand New

Daily high and low
Too cold for onion so farFrom Jan 17 to Oct 31, 183 of 289 days had a high inside the best range of 12–25°C. The highs were below the best range on 106 days. The weather was too cold on 28 days (lows below 4°C).
2 °C frost lineGrows at 4–30°Grows best 12–25°
Daily rainfall
Rain
843 mm
Hottest day
20.5°C
Coldest night
-0.5°C
Soil temperature
11.7°C
Days in its best range
183 of 289
Days
289

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

2020-08-17_11-09-46
2020-08-17_11-09-46
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2020-04-12_09-58-51
2020-04-12_09-58-51
by shiny
2020-04-06_09-09-50
2020-04-06_09-09-50
by shiny
Onions
Onions
by shiny
Onion
Onion
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IMG_20200117_150312
IMG_20200117_150312
by shiny
onion
onion
by shiny

Observations

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

  1. Day 0
    Planted

Frost

Experimental · new and might be flaky

Frost may have reached this onion planting

7 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was -0.5 °C.

This onion planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
-0.5 °C
2.5 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
120 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 30 Sep
Usual last frost
28 Aug
planted 224 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

onion
onion harvest
bulb
picked 2020-11-02 by shiny
onion
onion harvest
flower
picked 2020-10-26 by shiny

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Crop

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Onion

Allium cepa

  • 84 plantings
  • 20 harvests
  • An annual, living about 235 days
  • First harvest about 252 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 320 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun
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