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Cucumber planting

grown by shiny in square shady bed · Wellington, NZ

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Planted 2026-10-10

First harvest expected 2027-01-19

Finish expected 2027-02-18

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Harvest months

Spring
September
October, usually harvesting
November
Summer
December, usually harvesting
January, usually harvesting
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

about 1 month ago 2026-10-10

Progress

26% day 35 of 131

Quantity

1 seed

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Parent Seed

Grown from

Seed Your cucumber packet

Weather in Wellington, NZ New

Daily high and low
Growing, though not at the fastest, for cucumber so farFrom Oct 10 to Nov 09, 1 of 31 days had a high inside the best range of 18–32°C. The highs were below the best range on 30 days.
Expected to grow, though not at the fastest, for cucumberGoing by last year's weather, 19 of the 101 days from Nov 10 to Feb 18 should have a high inside the best range of 18–32°C. The highs could be below the best range on 82 days.
Latest, Nov 09: 14.6°C / 11.4°C2 °C frost lineGrows at 6–38°Grows best 18–32°
Daily rainfall
Latest, Nov 09: 0.9 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
59 mm
Hottest day
18.3°C
Coldest night
6.1°C
Soil temperature
14.1°C
Days in its best range
1 of 31
Days
31

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.

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    Planted

Frost danger has passed for this cucumber planting

The latest a frost has come in past years is 1 Oct, 44 days ago. The cucumber planting went in on 10 Oct, 42 days after the usual last frost (29 Aug).

This cucumber planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting so far
  • Planting still to come
Usual last frost
29 Aug
has come as late as 1 Oct
Next frost danger starts
23 Jun
as early as 4 Jun, 125 days after this cucumber 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

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Crop

Photo of cucumber

Cucumber

Cucumis sativus

  • 99 plantings
  • 58 harvests
  • An annual, living about 131 days
  • First harvest about 83 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 133 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other cucumber plantings at the same latitude.