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Calabash planting

grown by shiny in Raised Bed Two · Wellington, NZ

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Done

Planted 2025-10-01

Harvest started 2025-12-02

Finished 2026-03-31

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Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

about 1 year ago 2025-10-01

Progress

Done 181 days

Quantity

3 seedlings

Grown in

sun

Rating

5 of 5

Grown from

Seedling

Weather in Wellington, NZ New

Daily high and low
Too cold for calabash so farFrom Oct 01 to Mar 31, 11 of 182 days had a high inside the best range of 19–27°C. The highs were below the best range on 171 days. The weather was too cold on 114 days (lows below 12°C).
2 °C frost lineGrows at 12–38°Grows best 19–27°
Daily rainfall
Rain
515 mm
Hottest day
21.1°C
Coldest night
3.5°C
Soil temperature
14.9°C
Days in its best range
11 of 182
Days
182

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

No frost reached this calabash planting

Frost was possible until 1 Oct, and no night in that time was colder than 4.3 °C. The calabash planting went in on 1 Oct, 33 days after the usual last frost (29 Aug).

This calabash planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
4.3 °C
2.3 °C above the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
1 day
from planting to the latest it has come, 1 Oct
Usual last frost
29 Aug
planted 33 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 calabash

Calabash

Lagenaria siceraria

  • 2 plantings
  • 5 harvests
  • An annual, living about 181 days
  • First harvest about 1 day after planting
  • Last harvest about 107 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other calabash plantings at the same latitude.