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kamokamo Kamokamo planting

grown by shiny in Near the garage · Wellington, NZ

All of shiny's plantings

  1. Planted 2026-09-20
  2. First harvest 2027-01-27 expected
  3. Finished 2027-02-18 expected

Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

about 2 months ago 2026-09-20

Progress

37%
day 56 of 151

Degree days

265 of about 700 needed

Quantity

2 plants

Grown in

not specified

Rating

3 of 5

Weather in Wellington, NZ New

Daily high and low
Too cold for kamokamo so farFrom Sep 20 to Nov 10, 5 of 52 days had a high inside the best range of 17–30°C. The highs were below the best range on 47 days. The weather was too cold on 7 days (lows below 6°C).
Expected to grow, though not at the fastest, for kamokamoGoing by last year's weather, 46 of the 100 days from Nov 11 to Feb 18 should have a high inside the best range of 17–30°C. The highs could be below the best range on 54 days.
Latest, Nov 10: 18.5°C / 11.9°C2 °C frost lineGrows at 6–40°Grows best 17–30°
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
119 mm
Hottest day
18.5°C
Coldest night
3.5°C
Soil temperature
12.6°C
Days in its best range
5 of 52
Days
52

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.

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    Planted

Frost danger has passed for this kamokamo planting

The latest a frost has come in past years is 1 Oct, 45 days ago. The kamokamo planting went in on 20 Sep, 22 days after the usual last frost (29 Aug).

This kamokamo planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting so far
  • Planting still to come
Coldest night
4.2 °C
2.2 °C above the 2 °C frost danger line
Usual last frost
29 Aug
has come as late as 1 Oct
Next frost danger starts
23 Jun
as early as 4 Jun, 125 days after this kamokamo 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.

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Crop

Photo of kamokamo

Kamokamo

Cucurbita pepo

a variety of Pumpkin

  • 5 plantings
  • 13 harvests
  • An annual, living about 151 days
  • First harvest about 129 days after planting

World neighbours

Other kamokamo plantings at the same latitude.