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crown pumpkin Crown Pumpkin planting

grown by shiny in Raised Bed One · Wellington, NZ

All of shiny's plantings

Done

Planted 2025-10-31

First harvest expected 2026-02-11

Finished 2026-03-01

  • crown pumpkin
  • crown pumpkin
(One emoji = 1 week)

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 1 year ago 2025-10-31

Progress

Done 121 days

Quantity

2 seeds

Grown in

sun

Rating

3 of 5

Grown from

Seed

Weather in Wellington, NZ New

Daily high and low
Too cold for crown pumpkin so farFrom Oct 31 to Mar 01, 4 of 122 days had a high inside the best range of 20–30°C. The highs were below the best range on 118 days. The weather was too cold on 10 days (lows below 9°C).
2 °C frost lineGrows at 9–38°Grows best 20–30°
Daily rainfall
Rain
388 mm
Hottest day
21.1°C
Coldest night
7.5°C
Soil temperature
15.7°C
Days in its best range
4 of 122
Days
122

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

volunteer

Photos

20260122_165830
20260122_165830
by shiny

Observations

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

  1. Day 0
    Planted

No frost reached this crown pumpkin planting

Frost was possible until 1 Oct. We have no night temperatures for this crown pumpkin planting. The crown pumpkin planting went in on 31 Oct, 63 days after the usual last frost (29 Aug).

This crown pumpkin planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Frost danger it grew through
0 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 1 Oct
Usual last frost
29 Aug
planted 63 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)

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Crop

Photo of crown pumpkin

Crown Pumpkin

Cucurbita pepo

a variety of Pumpkin

  • 6 plantings
  • 8 harvests
  • An annual, living about 151 days
  • First harvest about 103 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 130 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other crown pumpkin plantings at the same latitude.