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scots potato Scots Potato planting

grown by shiny in North Garden · Wellington, New Zealand

All of shiny's plantings

Done
  1. Planted 2019-09-25
  2. First harvest 2020-02-04
  3. Last harvest 2020-03-29
  4. Finished 2020-03-30

Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

about 7 years ago 2019-09-25

Progress

Done 187 days

Degree days

1,156 of about 1,170 needed

Quantity

unknown roots/tubers

Grown in

full sun

Rating

not rated

Parent Seed

Grown from

Root/tuber Your scots potato packet

Weather in Wellington, New Zealand New

Daily high and low
Too cold for scots potato so farFrom Sep 25 to Mar 30, 118 of 188 days had a high inside the best range of 15–25°C. The highs were below the best range on 70 days. The weather was too cold on 20 days (lows below 7°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at 0 °CGrows at 7–30°Grows best 15–25°
Daily rainfall
Rain
468 mm
Hottest day
20.5°C
Coldest night
2.6°C
Soil temperature
15.1°C
Days in its best range
118 of 188
Days
188

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.

Notes

2019-10-19 started to appear

Photos

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2020-03-13_08-11-09
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Observations

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

  1. Day 0
    Planted

No frost reached this scots potato planting

Frost was possible until 1 Oct, and no night in that time was colder than 2.6 °C. The scots potato planting went in on 25 Sep, 27 days after the usual last frost (29 Aug).

This scots potato planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
2.6 °C
0.6 °C above the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
7 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 1 Oct
Usual last frost
29 Aug
planted 27 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

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Crop

Photo of scots potato

Scots Potato

a variety of Potato

  • 6 plantings
  • 14 harvests
  • An annual, living about 187 days
  • First harvest about 132 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 186 days after planting

World neighbours

Other scots potato plantings at the same latitude.