giant pumpkin grown by shiny
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giant pumpkin Giant Pumpkin planting

grown by shiny in Brick lined garden beside the garage 🍅🧱 · Wellington, New zealand

All of shiny's plantings

Done
  1. Sown 2019-10-13
  2. First harvest 2020-04-25
  3. Finished 2020-04-25

Harvest months

Spring
Summer
Autumn
Winter

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

about 7 years ago 2019-10-13

Progress

Done 195 days

Degree days

862 of about 1,280 needed

Quantity

3 seeds

Grown in

full sun

Rating

not rated

Parent Seed

giant pumpkin
giant pumpkin

Grown from

Seed Your giant pumpkin packet

Weather in Wellington, New zealand New

Daily high and low
Too cold for giant pumpkin so farFrom Oct 13 to Apr 25, 7 of 196 days had a high inside the best range of 20–30°C. The highs were below the best range on 189 days. The weather was too cold on 39 days (lows below 9°C).
2 °C frost lineGrows at 9–38°Grows best 20–30°
Daily rainfall
Rain
451 mm
Hottest day
20.5°C
Coldest night
3.9°C
Soil temperature
15.2°C
Days in its best range
7 of 196
Days
196

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

transplanted 2019-12-11, next to the water tank

Photos

2020-04-06_08-34-27
2020-04-06_08-34-27
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2020-03-23_08-26-22
2020-03-23_08-26-22
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2020-03-16_07-39-53
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IMG_20200311_114122
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IMG_20200311_114120
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IMG_20200311_114059
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2020-03-05_08-46-46
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Giant pumpkin
Giant pumpkin
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Giant pumpkin
Giant pumpkin
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Giant pumpkin
Giant pumpkin
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Giant pumpkins
Giant pumpkins
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Giant pumpkin
Giant pumpkin
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Observations

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

  1. Day 0
    Planted

Frost

Experimental · new and might be flaky

No frost reached this giant pumpkin planting

Frost was possible until 1 Oct. We have no night temperatures for this giant pumpkin planting. The giant pumpkin planting went in on 13 Oct, 45 days after the usual last frost (29 Aug).

This giant 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 45 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

giant pumpkin
giant pumpkin harvest
fruit
picked 2020-04-25 by shiny

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Jobs

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Crop

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Giant Pumpkin

a variety of Pumpkin

  • 5 plantings
  • 3 harvests
  • An annual, living about 154 days
  • First harvest about 148 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 148 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun
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