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Gherkin planting

grown by shiny in Raised Bed Three · Wellington, NZ

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S4JY

Planted 2026-10-10

First harvest expected 2026-12-05

Finish expected 2027-01-02

(One emoji = 1 week)

Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

about 1 month ago 2026-10-10

Progress

41% day 35 of 84

Quantity

3 seeds

Grown in

sun

Rating

not rated

Short code

S4JY for plant markers and labels

Parent Seed

Grown from

Seed Your gherkin packet

Weather in Wellington, NZ New

Daily high and low
Too cold for gherkin so farFrom Oct 10 to Nov 09, 0 of 31 days had a high inside the best range of 21–28°C. The highs were below the best range on 31 days. The weather was too cold on 7 days (lows below 8°C).
Expected to be mixed for gherkinGoing by last year's weather, 0 of the 54 days from Nov 10 to Jan 02 should have a high inside the best range of 21–28°C. The highs could be below the best range on 54 days. It could be too cold on 1 day (lows below 8°C).
Latest, Nov 09: 14.6°C / 11.4°C2 °C frost lineGrows at 8–32°Grows best 21–28°
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
59 mm
Hottest day
18.3°C
Coldest night
6.1°C
Soil temperature
14.1°C
Days in its best range
0 of 31
Days
31

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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by shiny

Frost danger has passed for this gherkin planting

The latest a frost has come in past years is 1 Oct, 44 days ago. The gherkin planting went outdoors on 20 Oct, 52 days after the usual last frost (29 Aug).

This gherkin planting against the frost season

  • 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, 172 days after this gherkin 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)

Harvests

No harvests recorded yet.

Seeds saved

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Jobs

Pull out finished plants

in 3 months

Pick fruit regularly

in about 2 months

Finished

Feed with liquid fertiliser

today

Mulch around the plants

19 days ago

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Crop

Photo of gherkin

Gherkin

a variety of Cucumber

  • 6 plantings
  • 2 harvests
  • An annual, living about 84 days
  • First harvest about 56 days after planting

World neighbours

Other gherkin plantings at the same latitude.