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broccoli Broccoli planting

grown by shiny in Sunny bed · Wellington, New zealand

All of shiny's plantings

Done
  1. Planted 2017-04-05
  2. First harvest 2017-07-17
  3. Last harvest 2017-07-20
  4. Finished 2017-09-23

Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

over 9 years ago 2017-04-05

Progress

Done 171 days

Degree days

1,053 of about 1,320 needed

Quantity

3 plants

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Weather in Wellington, New zealand New

Daily high and low
Too cold for broccoli so farFrom Apr 05 to Sep 23, 10 of 172 days had a high inside the best range of 15–24°C. The highs were below the best range on 162 days. The weather was too cold on 10 days (lows below 3°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at -1 °CGrows at 3–35°Grows best 15–24°
Daily rainfall
Rain
741 mm
Hottest day
17.7°C
Coldest night
0.4°C
Soil temperature
9.2°C
Days in its best range
10 of 172
Days
172

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

Frost may have reached this broccoli planting

2 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was 0.4 °C.

This broccoli planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
0.4 °C
1.6 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
112 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 1 Oct
Usual last frost
29 Aug
planted 146 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)

Harvests

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Crop

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Broccoli

Brassica oleracea

a variety of Brassica Oleracea

  • 87 plantings
  • 33 harvests
  • An annual, living about 122 days
  • First harvest about 113 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 133 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other broccoli plantings at the same latitude.