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carrot Carrot planting

grown by shiny in Raised Bed One · Wellington, NZ

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Planted 2026-02-20

Harvest started 2026-10-10

Finished 2026-10-21

  • carrot
(One emoji = 1 week)

Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

9 months ago 2026-02-20

Progress

Done 243 days

Quantity

6 plants

Grown in

not specified

Rating

3 of 5

Weather in Wellington, NZ New

Daily high and low
Mixed conditions for carrot so farFrom Feb 20 to Oct 21, 52 of 244 days had a high inside the best range of 15–24°C. The highs were below the best range on 192 days. The weather was too cold on 7 days (lows below 3°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at 0 °CGrows at 3–30°Grows best 15–24°
Daily rainfall
Rain
710 mm
Hottest day
20.1°C
Coldest night
1.1°C
Soil temperature
10.9°C
Days in its best range
52 of 244
Days
244

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

IMG_20261021_184936
IMG_20261021_184936
by shiny

Observations

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

  1. Day 0
    Planted

Frost may have reached this carrot planting

3 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was 1.1 °C.

This carrot planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
1.1 °C
0.9 °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 190 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)

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Crop

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Carrot

Daucus carota

  • 136 plantings
  • 62 harvests
  • An annual, living about 130 days
  • First harvest about 137 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 159 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

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