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scots potato Scots Potato planting

grown by shiny in Front lawn 2 rua · Wellington, New Zealand

All of shiny's plantings

Done
  1. Planted 2020-08-30
  2. First harvest 2021-01-09
  3. Last harvest 2021-03-05
  4. Finished 2021-03-05

Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

about 6 years ago 2020-08-30

Progress

Done 187 days

Degree days

1,033 of about 1,170 needed

Quantity

unknown roots/tubers

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Parent Seed

Grown from

Root/tuber Your scots potato packet

Weather in Wellington, New Zealand New

Daily high and low
Too cold for scots potato so farFrom Aug 30 to Mar 05, 92 of 188 days had a high inside the best range of 15–25°C. The highs were below the best range on 96 days. The weather was too cold on 27 days (lows below 7°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at 0 °CGrows at 7–30°Grows best 15–25°
Daily rainfall
Rain
557 mm
Hottest day
20.9°C
Coldest night
1.7°C
Soil temperature
14.1°C
Days in its best range
92 of 188
Days
188

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

two rows

Photos

20210126_123600
20210126_123600
by shiny
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20200930_153455
by shiny

Observations

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

  1. Day 0
    Planted

Frost may have reached this scots potato planting

3 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was 1.7 °C.

This scots potato planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
1.7 °C
0.3 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
32 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 30 Sep
Usual last frost
28 Aug
planted 2 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

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Crop

Photo of scots potato

Scots Potato

a variety of Potato

  • 6 plantings
  • 14 harvests
  • An annual, living about 187 days
  • First harvest about 132 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 186 days after planting

World neighbours

Other scots potato plantings at the same latitude.