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basil grown by shiny

Planted 2019-09-25

First harvest expected 2019-11-20

Finished 2020-04-25

(One emoji = 1 week)

Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

about 7 years ago 2019-09-25

Progress

Done 213 days

Quantity

unknown seeds

Grown in

sun

Rating

not rated

Parent Seed

Grown from

Seed Your basil packet

Weather in Wellington, New Zealand New

Daily high and low
Too cold for basil so farFrom Sep 25 to Apr 25, 44 of 214 days had a high inside the best range of 18–27°C. The highs were below the best range on 170 days. The weather was too cold on 22 days (lows below 7°C).
2 °C frost lineGrows at 7–36°Grows best 18–27°
Daily rainfall
Rain
516 mm
Hottest day
20.5°C
Coldest night
2.6°C
Soil temperature
14.8°C
Days in its best range
44 of 214
Days
214

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

Basil
Basil
by shiny
Basil
Basil
by shiny
IMG_20191126_190245
IMG_20191126_190245
by shiny
IMG_20190925_093017
IMG_20190925_093017
by shiny

Observations

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

  1. Day 0
    Planted

No frost reached this basil planting

Frost was possible until 1 Oct, and no night in that time was colder than 2.6 °C. The basil planting went in on 25 Sep, 27 days after the usual last frost (29 Aug).

This basil planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
2.6 °C
0.6 °C above the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
7 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 1 Oct
Usual last frost
29 Aug
planted 27 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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Seeds saved

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Jobs

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Crop

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Basil

Ocimum basilicum

  • 161 plantings
  • 33 harvests
  • An annual, living about 139 days
  • First harvest about 56 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 59 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other basil plantings at the same latitude.