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  1. Sown 2026-05-16
  2. First harvest 2026-11-14
  3. Finished 2026-11-14

Harvest months

Spring
September
October
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

6 months ago 2026-05-16

Progress

Done 182 days

Degree days

1,190 of about 1,595 needed

Quantity

unknown seeds

Grown in

full sun

Rating

not rated

Parent Seed

rye
rye
2026-11-14

Grown from

Seed Your rye packet

Variety

Rye Milmore Downs from the seed packet

Weather in Wellington, NZ New

Daily high and low
Mixed conditions for rye so farFrom May 16 to Nov 10, 14 of 179 days had a high inside the best range of 15–20°C. The highs were below the best range on 165 days. The weather was too cold on 7 days (lows below 3°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at -1 °CGrows at 3–31°Grows best 15–20°
Daily rainfall
Rain
518 mm
Hottest day
18.5°C
Coldest night
1.1°C
Soil temperature
10.2°C
Days in its best range
14 of 179
Days
179

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.

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Observations

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

  1. Day 0
    Planted

Frost may have reached this rye planting

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

This rye 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 105 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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Rye

  • 1 planting
  • 1 harvest
  • An annual, living about 182 days
  • First harvest about 547 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun