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rocket potato Rocket Potato planting

grown by shiny in Front lawn 3 toru · Wellington, New Zealand

All of shiny's plantings

Done
  1. Planted 2020-10-18
  2. First harvest 2021-01-28
  3. Last harvest 2021-02-02
  4. Finished 2021-02-24

Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

about 6 years ago 2020-10-18

Progress

Done 129 days

Degree days

822 of about 1,170 needed

Quantity

unknown plants

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Weather in Wellington, New Zealand New

Daily high and low
Mixed conditions for rocket potato so farFrom Oct 18 to Feb 24, 83 of 130 days had a high inside the best range of 15–25°C. The highs were below the best range on 47 days. The weather was too cold on 6 days (lows below 7°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at 0 °CGrows at 7–30°Grows best 15–25°
Daily rainfall
Rain
394 mm
Hottest day
20.7°C
Coldest night
4.3°C
Soil temperature
15.2°C
Days in its best range
83 of 130
Days
130

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

20210128_172456
20210128_172456
by shiny
20201018_155032
20201018_155032
by shiny

Observations

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

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    Planted

No frost reached this rocket potato planting

Frost was possible until 30 Sep. We have no night temperatures for this rocket potato planting. The rocket potato planting went in on 18 Oct, 51 days after the usual last frost (28 Aug).

This rocket potato 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 51 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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Jobs

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Crop

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Rocket Potato

a variety of Potato

  • 2 plantings
  • 4 harvests
  • An annual, living about 120 days
  • First harvest about 106 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 110 days after planting

World neighbours

Other rocket potato plantings at the same latitude.