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Island Bay tomato grown by shiny
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Island Bay tomato Island Bay Tomato planting

grown by shiny in Raised Bed One · Wellington, NZ

All of shiny's plantings

  1. Sown 2026-09-06
  2. First harvest 2027-01-31 expected
  3. Last harvest 2027-02-27 expected
  4. Finished 2027-03-07 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

2 months ago 2026-09-06

Progress

38%
day 70 of 182

Degree days

239 of about 1,155 needed

Quantity

3 plants

Grown in

not specified

Rating

3 of 5

Parent Seed

2020-03-08

Hardiness

Tender A frost damages it Usual for the parent crop

Weather in Wellington, NZ New

Daily high and low
Too cold for Island Bay tomato so farFrom Sep 06 to Nov 10, 0 of 66 days had a high inside the best range of 20–27°C. The highs were below the best range on 66 days. The weather was too cold on 27 days (lows below 7°C).
Expected to grow, though not at the fastest, for Island Bay tomatoGoing by last year's weather, 4 of the 117 days from Nov 11 to Mar 07 should have a high inside the best range of 20–27°C. The highs could be below the best range on 113 days.
Latest, Nov 10: 18.5°C / 11.9°C2 °C frost lineGrows at 7–35°Grows best 20–27°
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
210 mm
Hottest day
18.5°C
Coldest night
3.3°C
Soil temperature
11.9°C
Days in its best range
0 of 66
Days
66

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.

  1. Day 0
    Planted

Frost danger has passed for this Island Bay tomato planting

The latest a frost has come in past years is 1 Oct, 45 days ago. The Island Bay tomato planting went in on 6 Sep, 8 days after the usual last frost (29 Aug).

This Island Bay tomato 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
3.3 °C
1.3 °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, 108 days after this Island Bay tomato 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.

Seeds saved

No seeds saved yet.

Jobs

Nothing is planned here.

Finished

Add fertiliser to Island Bay tomato

14 days ago

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