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borage Borage planting

grown by shiny in Raised Bed Three · Wellington, NZ

All of shiny's plantings

Done
  1. Planted 2026-09-24
  2. First harvest 2026-10-26
  3. Last harvest 2026-11-11
  4. Finished 2026-11-14

Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

about 2 months ago 2026-09-24

Progress

Done 51 days

Degree days

352 of about 2,175 needed

Quantity

unknown volunteers

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Volunteer

Weather in Wellington, NZ New

Daily high and low
Mixed conditions for borage so farFrom Sep 24 to Nov 10, 12 of 48 days had a high inside the best range of 15–22°C. The highs were below the best range on 36 days. The weather was too cold on 1 day (lows below 4°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at 0 °CGrows at 4–26°Grows best 15–22°
Daily rainfall
Rain
101 mm
Hottest day
18.5°C
Coldest night
3.5°C
Soil temperature
12.9°C
Days in its best range
12 of 48
Days
48

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

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

  1. Day 0
    Planted

No frost reached this borage planting

Frost was possible until 1 Oct, and no night in that time was colder than 4.2 °C. The borage planting went in on 24 Sep, 26 days after the usual last frost (29 Aug).

This borage planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
4.2 °C
2.2 °C above the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
8 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 1 Oct
Usual last frost
29 Aug
planted 26 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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Jobs

Nothing is planned here.

Finished

hack back

about 2 months ago
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Crop

Photo of borage

Borage

Borago officinalis

  • 20 plantings
  • 4 harvests
  • An annual, living about 53 days
  • First harvest about 33 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other borage plantings at the same latitude.