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giant pumpkin Giant Pumpkin planting

grown by shiny in Front yard · Wellington, New Zealand

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Done

Planted 2017-11-18

First harvest expected 2018-04-15

Finished 2018-04-28

  • giant pumpkin
(One emoji = 1 week)

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 9 years ago 2017-11-18

Progress

Done 161 days

Quantity

3 plants

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Weather in Wellington, New Zealand New

Daily high and low
Too cold for giant pumpkin so farFrom Nov 18 to Apr 28, 45 of 162 days had a high inside the best range of 20–30°C. The highs were below the best range on 117 days. The weather was too cold on 17 days (lows below 9°C).
2 °C frost lineGrows at 9–38°Grows best 20–30°
Daily rainfall
Rain
438 mm
Hottest day
24.6°C
Coldest night
5.7°C
Soil temperature
17.3°C
Days in its best range
45 of 162
Days
162

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 giant pumpkin planting

Frost was possible until 1 Oct. We have no night temperatures for this giant pumpkin planting. The giant pumpkin planting went in on 18 Nov, 81 days after the usual last frost (29 Aug).

This giant pumpkin 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, 1 Oct
Usual last frost
29 Aug
planted 81 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

Photo of giant pumpkin

Giant Pumpkin

a variety of Pumpkin

  • 5 plantings
  • 3 harvests
  • An annual, living about 154 days
  • First harvest about 148 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 148 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other giant pumpkin plantings at the same latitude.