onion grown by shiny
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Onion planting

grown by shiny in Front lawn 1 tahi · Wellington, New Zealand

All of shiny's plantings

Done
  1. Planted 2019-11-07
  2. First harvest 2020-03-12
  3. Finished 2020-10-31
  4. Last harvest 2020-11-02

Harvest months

Spring
Summer
Autumn
Winter

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

about 7 years ago 2019-11-07

Progress

Done 359 days

Degree days

2,676 of about 1,233 needed

Quantity

unknown seedlings

Grown in

full sun

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Seedling

Weather in Wellington, New Zealand New

Daily high and low
Too cold for onion so farFrom Nov 07 to Oct 31, 254 of 360 days had a high inside the best range of 12–25°C. The highs were below the best range on 106 days. The weather was too cold on 28 days (lows below 4°C).
2 °C frost lineGrows at 4–30°Grows best 12–25°
Daily rainfall
Rain
1,044 mm
Hottest day
20.5°C
Coldest night
-0.5°C
Soil temperature
12.4°C
Days in its best range
254 of 360
Days
360

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

2020-04-13 transplanted from Sunny big bed to front lawn tahi

Photos

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DSC_6846
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2020-01-05_07-55-39
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Onion
Onion
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IMG_20191109_143459
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onion
onion
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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 onion planting

Frost was possible until 1 Oct. We have no night temperatures for this onion planting. The onion planting went in on 7 Nov, 70 days after the usual last frost (29 Aug).

This onion planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Frost danger it grew through
120 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 1 Oct
Usual last frost
29 Aug
planted 70 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

onion
onion harvest
bulb
picked 2020-11-02 by shiny
onion
onion harvest
bulb
picked 2020-10-29 by shiny
onion
onion harvest
bulb
picked 2020-03-14 by shiny
onion
onion harvest
bulb
picked 2020-03-12 by shiny

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Crop

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Onion

Allium cepa

  • 84 plantings
  • 20 harvests
  • An annual, living about 235 days
  • First harvest about 252 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 320 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun
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