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sweetcorn grown by shiny

Planted 2020-09-14

First harvest expected 2021-01-19

Finished 2021-05-02

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Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

about 6 years ago 2020-09-14

Progress

Done 230 days

Quantity

unknown plants

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Weather in Wellington, New Zealand New

Daily high and low
Too cold for sweetcorn so farFrom Sep 14 to May 02, 34 of 231 days had a high inside the best range of 18–33°C. The highs were below the best range on 197 days. The weather was too cold on 95 days (lows below 10°C).
2 °C frost lineGrows at 10–47°Grows best 18–33°
Daily rainfall
Rain
675 mm
Hottest day
20.9°C
Coldest night
1.8°C
Soil temperature
14.4°C
Days in its best range
34 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.

Photos

20201011_160403
20201011_160403
by shiny
2020-09-28 10.13.16
2020-09-28 10.13.16
by shiny
20200921_082320
20200921_082320
by shiny

Observations

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

  1. Day 0
    Planted

Frost may have reached this sweetcorn planting

One night while frost was possible was at or below 2 °C. The coldest was 1.8 °C.

This sweetcorn planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
1.8 °C
0.2 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
17 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 30 Sep
Usual last frost
28 Aug
planted 17 days after 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

No harvests recorded yet.

Seeds saved

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Jobs

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Crop

Photo of sweetcorn

Sweetcorn

Zea mays L. var. rugosa (or saccharata]

a variety of Corn

  • 2 plantings
  • 1 harvest
  • An annual, living about 188 days
  • First harvest about 127 days after planting

World neighbours

Other sweetcorn plantings at the same latitude.