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rua potato Rua Potato planting

grown by shiny in square shady bed · Wellington, NZ

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Planted 2026-11-01

Finish expected 2027-02-21

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No harvest months for this crop at this latitude yet.

Planted

13 days ago 2026-11-01

Progress

11% day 13 of 112

Quantity

6 seeds

Grown in

semi-shade

Rating

3 of 5

Parent Seed

2026-11-01

Grown from

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Weather in Wellington, NZ New

Daily high and low
Too cold for rua potato so farFrom Nov 01 to Nov 09, 6 of 9 days had a high inside the best range of 15–25°C. The highs were below the best range on 3 days. The weather was too cold on 1 day (lows below 7°C).
Expected to suit rua potatoGoing by last year's weather, 79 of the 104 days from Nov 10 to Feb 21 should have a high inside the best range of 15–25°C. The highs could be below the best range on 25 days.
Latest, Nov 09: 14.6°C / 11.4°C2 °C frost lineDies at 0 °CGrows at 7–30°Grows best 15–25°
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
12 mm
Hottest day
18.3°C
Coldest night
6.4°C
Soil temperature
15.6°C
Days in its best range
6 of 9
Days
9

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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Frost danger has passed for this rua potato planting

The latest a frost has come in past years is 1 Oct, 44 days ago. The rua potato planting went in on 1 Nov, 64 days after the usual last frost (29 Aug).

This rua potato 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, 122 days after this rua potato 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)

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Crop

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Rua Potato

a variety of Potato

  • 1 planting
  • An annual
  • Usually grown in semi-shade