Calabash planting

grown by shiny in North West bed · Wellington, NZ

All of shiny's plantings

BBXA

Planted 2026-09-06

First harvest expected 2026-09-07

Finish expected 2027-03-06

(One emoji = 1 week)

Harvest months

Spring

Summer

Autumn

Winter

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

2 months ago 2026-09-06

Progress

38% day 69 of 181

Quantity

5 seeds

Grown in

sun

Rating

3 of 5

Short code

BBXA for plant markers and labels

Parent Seed

calabash

Grown from

Seed Your calabash packet

Weather in Wellington, NZ New

Daily high and low

Too cold for calabash so farFrom Sep 06 to Nov 09, 0 of 65 days had a high inside the best range of 19–27°C. The highs were below the best range on 65 days. The weather was too cold on 61 days (lows below 12°C).

Expected to be too cold for calabashGoing by last year's weather, 8 of the 117 days from Nov 10 to Mar 06 should have a high inside the best range of 19–27°C. The highs could be below the best range on 109 days. It could be too cold on 63 days (lows below 12°C).

Latest, Nov 09: 14.6°C / 11.4°C2 °C frost lineGrows at 12–38°Grows best 19–27°

Daily rainfall

Latest, Nov 09: 0.9 mm

The dotted lines and bars are expected weather, last year's data for the same days moved forward a year. They are not observed.

Rain: 191 mm
Hottest day: 18.3°C
Coldest night: 3.3°C
Soil temperature: 11.9°C
Days in its best range: 0 of 65
Days: 65

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

IMG_20261110_160837

by shiny 2026-11-10 0

Laukiy

by shiny 2026-10-27 0

IMG_0403

by shiny 2026-10-26 0

Frost

Experimental · new and might be flaky

Frost danger has passed for this calabash planting

The latest a frost has come in past years is 1 Oct, 44 days ago. The calabash planting went outdoors on 26 Oct, 58 days after the usual last frost (29 Aug).

This calabash planting against the frost season

Today, 14 Nov

Frost danger

23 Jun – 29 Aug

23 Jun →

This planting

In seedlings frames, safe from frost

Went outdoors 26 Oct

Finish expected 6 Mar

Went outdoors 58 days after the usual last frost

JunJ2026

JulJ

AugA

SepS

OctO

NovN

DecD

JanJ2027

FebF

MarM

AprA

MayM

JunJ

JulJ

Usual frost danger
Possible: as early or late as it has come
Somewhere safe from frost
Planting so far
Planting still to come

Usual last frost

29 Aug

has come as late as 1 Oct

Next frost danger starts

23 Jun

as early as 4 Jun, 109 days after this calabash planting finishes

Frost-free season

295 days

in a typical year

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)