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watercress Watercress planting

grown by shiny in indoor plants · Wellington, New zealand

All of shiny's plantings

Done
  1. Sown 2018-05-19
  2. First harvest 2018-06-27
  3. Last harvest 2018-10-03
  4. Finished 2018-11-01

Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

over 8 years ago 2018-05-19

Progress

Done 166 days

Degree days

467 of about 340 needed

Quantity

unknown plants

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Parent Seed

Grown from

Seed Your watercress packet

Weather in Wellington, New zealand New

Daily high and low
Too cold for watercress so farFrom May 19 to Nov 01, 57 of 167 days had a high inside the best range of 12–17°C. The highs were below the best range on 110 days. The weather was too cold on 65 days (lows below 6°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at 0 °CGrows at 6–32°Grows best 12–17°
Daily rainfall
Rain
513 mm
Hottest day
14.9°C
Coldest night
1.2°C
Soil temperature
9.2°C
Days in its best range
57 of 167
Days
167

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 may have reached this watercress planting

3 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was 1.2 °C.

This watercress planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
1.2 °C
0.8 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
120 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 1 Oct
Usual last frost
29 Aug
planted 102 days before 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

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Crop

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Watercress

Nasturtium officinale

a variety of Nasturtium

  • 8 plantings
  • 14 harvests
  • An annual, living about 152 days
  • First harvest about 53 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 135 days after planting

World neighbours

Other watercress plantings at the same latitude.