Giant Pumpkin planting

grown by shiny in Raised Bed One · Wellington, NZ

All of shiny's plantings

WXQ3

Planted 2026-09-20

First harvest expected 2027-02-15

Finish expected 2027-02-21

(One emoji = 1 week)

Harvest months

Spring

Summer

Autumn

Winter

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

about 2 months ago 2026-09-20

Progress

35% day 55 of 154

Quantity

unknown seeds

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Short code

WXQ3 for plant markers and labels

Parent Seed

giant pumpkin

Grown from

Seed Your giant pumpkin packet

Weather in Wellington, NZ New

Daily high and low

Too cold for giant pumpkin so farFrom Sep 20 to Nov 09, 0 of 51 days had a high inside the best range of 20–30°C. The highs were below the best range on 51 days. The weather was too cold on 28 days (lows below 9°C).

Expected to be too cold for giant pumpkinGoing by last year's weather, 4 of the 104 days from Nov 10 to Feb 21 should have a high inside the best range of 20–30°C. The highs could be below the best range on 100 days. It could be too cold on 6 days (lows below 9°C).

Latest, Nov 09: 14.6°C / 11.4°C2 °C frost lineGrows at 9–38°Grows best 20–30°

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: 101 mm
Hottest day: 18.3°C
Coldest night: 3.5°C
Soil temperature: 12.5°C
Days in its best range: 0 of 51
Days: 51

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_20261011_090258

by shiny 2026-10-11 0

Frost

Experimental · new and might be flaky

Frost danger has passed for this giant pumpkin planting

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

This giant pumpkin 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 21 Feb

Went outdoors 58 days after the usual last frost

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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, 122 days after this giant pumpkin 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)