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lettuce Lettuce planting

grown by shiny in Near the garage · Wellington, NZ

All of shiny's plantings

  1. Sown 2026-10-10
  2. Moved to Near the garage 2026-10-24
  3. First harvest 2026-11-30 expected
  4. Last harvest 2027-01-26 expected
  5. Finished 2027-01-26 expected

Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

about 1 month ago 2026-10-10

Progress

35%
day 36 of 102

Degree days

230 of about 403 needed

Quantity

8 seeds

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Parent Seed

Grown from

Seed Your lettuce packet

Variety

all year round from the seed packet

Weather in Wellington, NZ New

Daily high and low
Good conditions for lettuce so farFrom Oct 10 to Nov 10, 29 of 32 days had a high inside the best range of 12–21°C. The highs were below the best range on 3 days.
Expected to suit lettuceGoing by last year's weather, 70 of the 71 days from Nov 11 to Jan 20 should have a high inside the best range of 12–21°C. The highs could be above the best range on 1 day.
Latest, Nov 10: 18.5°C / 11.9°C2 °C frost lineDies at 0 °CGrows at 5–30°Grows best 12–21°
Daily rainfall
Latest, Nov 10: 18.7 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
77 mm
Hottest day
18.5°C
Coldest night
6.1°C
Soil temperature
14.1°C
Days in its best range
29 of 32
Days
32

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

Frost danger has passed for this lettuce planting

The latest a frost has come in past years is 1 Oct, 45 days ago. The lettuce planting went outdoors on 24 Oct, 56 days after the usual last frost (29 Aug).

This lettuce 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, 154 days after this lettuce 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

No seeds saved yet.

Jobs

Nothing is planned here.

3 comments

Posted by shiny on November 10, 2026 03:43

i think i mxed these up. the drunken woman lettuces are in another bed

Posted by shiny on November 13, 2026 23:44

Marked a "all year" variety now

Posted by shiny on November 13, 2026 23:45

Probably the new plant marker codes would help me not mix up… Hmm maybe they should be derived from the seed code.

Crop

Photo of lettuce

Lettuce

Lactuca sativa

  • 177 plantings
  • 77 harvests
  • An annual, living about 102 days
  • First harvest about 40 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 108 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other lettuce plantings at the same latitude.