Onion planting

grown by shiny in Sunny old raised bed · Wellington, New Zealand

All of shiny's plantings

Done

Planted 2017-04-25

Harvest started 2018-01-02

Finished 2018-01-05

(One emoji = 1 week)

Harvest months

Spring

Summer

Autumn

Winter

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

over 9 years ago 2017-04-25

Progress

Done 255 days

Quantity

unknown seeds

Grown in

sun

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Seed

Weather in Wellington, New Zealand New

Daily high and low

Too cold for onion so farFrom Apr 25 to Jan 05, 142 of 256 days had a high inside the best range of 12–25°C. The highs were below the best range on 114 days. The weather was too cold on 27 days (lows below 4°C).

2 °C frost lineGrows at 4–30°Grows best 12–25°

Daily rainfall

Rain: 798 mm
Hottest day: 22.8°C
Coldest night: 0.4°C
Soil temperature: 11.5°C
Days in its best range: 142 of 256
Days: 256

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

Pukekohe long keeper harvest in 28 - 32 weeks

Photos

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Newly planted pukekohe onions

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Observations

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

2017-04-25 Day 0

Planted

Frost

Experimental · new and might be flaky

Frost may have reached this onion planting

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

This onion planting against the frost season

Frost danger

23 Jun – 29 Aug

23 Jun →

This planting

Finished 5 Jan

Planted 126 days before the usual last frost

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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

120 days

from planting to the latest it has come, 1 Oct

Usual last frost

29 Aug

planted 126 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)