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pink fir apple potato grown by shiny
  1. Planted 2019-09-15
  2. First harvest 2020-01-30
  3. Finished 2020-01-30

Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

about 7 years ago 2019-09-15

Progress

Done 137 days

Degree days

720 of about 1,170 needed

Quantity

10 roots/tubers

Grown in

full sun

Rating

not rated

Parent Seed

Grown from

Root/tuber Your pink fir apple potato packet

Weather in strathmore park, Wellington New

Daily high and low
Too cold for pink fir apple potato so farFrom Sep 15 to Jan 30, 68 of 138 days had a high inside the best range of 15–25Β°C. The highs were below the best range on 70 days. The weather was too cold on 25 days (lows below 7Β°C).
2 Β°C frost lineDies at 0 Β°CGrows at 7–30Β°Grows best 15–25Β°
Daily rainfall
Rain
348 mm
Hottest day
20.5Β°C
Coldest night
2.5Β°C
Soil temperature
14.0Β°C
Days in its best range
68 of 138
Days
138

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 pink fir apple potato planting

Frost was possible until 1 Oct, and no night in that time was colder than 2.5 Β°C. The pink fir apple potato planting went in on 15 Sep, 17 days after the usual last frost (29 Aug).

This pink fir apple potato planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
2.5 Β°C
0.5 Β°C above the 2 Β°C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
17 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 1 Oct
Usual last frost
29 Aug
planted 17 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)

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Crop

Photo of pink fir apple potato

Pink Fir Apple Potato

a variety of Potato

  • 2 plantings
  • 2 harvests
  • An annual, living about 157 days
  • First harvest about 148 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 137 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other pink fir apple potato plantings at the same latitude.