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yardlong bean Yardlong Bean planting

grown by shiny in Near the garage · Wellington, NZ

All of shiny's plantings

  1. Planted 2026-09-20
  2. Finished 2026-12-24 expected

No harvest months for this crop at this latitude yet.

Planted

about 2 months ago 2026-09-20

Progress

58%
day 56 of 95

Degree days

214 of about 675 needed

Quantity

5 plants

Grown in

not specified

Rating

3 of 5

Weather in Wellington, NZ New

Daily high and low
Too cold for yardlong bean so farFrom Sep 20 to Nov 10, 9 of 52 days had a high inside the best range of 16–25°C. The highs were below the best range on 43 days. The weather was too cold on 16 days (lows below 7°C).
Expected to suit yardlong beanGoing by last year's weather, 27 of the 44 days from Nov 11 to Dec 24 should have a high inside the best range of 16–25°C. The highs could be below the best range on 17 days.
Latest, Nov 10: 18.5°C / 11.9°C2 °C frost lineGrows at 7–32°Grows best 16–25°
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
9 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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by shiny

Observations

  1. Day 56
    Germination
  2. Day 0
    Planted

Frost danger has passed for this yardlong bean planting

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

This yardlong bean 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, 181 days after this yardlong bean 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)

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Crop

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Yardlong Bean

Vigna unguiculata (sesquipedalis)

a variety of Green Bean

  • 7 plantings
  • An annual, living about 95 days
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other yardlong bean plantings at the same latitude.