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Planted 2019-04-01

Harvest started 2019-07-27

Finished 2019-11-17

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Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

over 7 years ago 2019-04-01

Progress

Done 230 days

Quantity

unknown seeds

Grown in

sun

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Seed

Weather in Wellington, New zealand New

Daily high and low
Too cold for kale so farFrom Apr 01 to Nov 17, 17 of 231 days had a high inside the best range of 15–22°C. The low reached the killing temperature of 0°C on 1 day. The highs were below the best range on 214 days. The weather was too cold on 107 days (lows below 7°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at 0 °CGrows at 7–30°Grows best 15–22°
Daily rainfall
Rain
808 mm
Hottest day
17.4°C
Coldest night
-1.3°C
Soil temperature
10.1°C
Days in its best range
17 of 231
Days
231

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

leaving for seed

Photos

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Observations

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

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    Planted

Frost may have reached this kale planting

One night while frost was possible was at or below 2 °C. The coldest was -1.3 °C.

This kale planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
-1.3 °C
3.3 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
120 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 1 Oct
Usual last frost
29 Aug
planted 150 days before 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

kale harvest
whole plant

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Crop

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Kale

Brassica oleracea Acephala group

a variety of Brassica Oleracea Acephela Group

  • 75 plantings
  • 24 harvests
  • An annual, living about 178 days
  • First harvest about 43 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 118 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other kale plantings at the same latitude.