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sweetcorn grown by shiny
Done
  1. Planted 2020-12-06
  2. First harvest 2021-04-12
  3. Finished 2021-05-02

Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

almost 6 years ago 2020-12-06

Progress

Done 147 days

Degree days

575 of about 1,008 needed

Quantity

unknown plants

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Seeds saved

1 packet of seed

Weather in Wellington, New Zealand New

Daily high and low
Too cold for sweetcorn so farFrom Dec 06 to May 02, 34 of 148 days had a high inside the best range of 18–33°C. The highs were below the best range on 114 days. The weather was too cold on 44 days (lows below 10°C).
2 °C frost lineGrows at 10–47°Grows best 18–33°
Daily rainfall
Rain
300 mm
Hottest day
20.9°C
Coldest night
5.6°C
Soil temperature
15.7°C
Days in its best range
34 of 148
Days
148

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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Observations

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

  1. Day 0
    Planted

No frost reached this sweetcorn planting

Frost was possible until 30 Sep. We have no night temperatures for this sweetcorn planting. The sweetcorn planting went in on 6 Dec, 100 days after the usual last frost (28 Aug).

This sweetcorn planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Frost danger it grew through
0 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 30 Sep
Usual last frost
28 Aug
planted 100 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

sweetcorn

seeds saved by shiny
  • Wellington, NZ

Jobs

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Crop

Photo of sweetcorn

Sweetcorn

Zea mays L. var. rugosa (or saccharata]

a variety of Corn

  • 2 plantings
  • 1 harvest
  • An annual, living about 188 days
  • First harvest about 127 days after planting

World neighbours

Other sweetcorn plantings at the same latitude.