Red Lettuce planting

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

All of shiny's plantings

Done

Planted 2020-05-23
First harvest 2020-06-30 expected
Last harvest 2020-07-24 expected
Finished 2020-10-31

Harvest months

Spring

Summer

Autumn

Winter

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

over 6 years ago 2020-05-23

Progress

Done 161 days

Degree days

657 of about 403 needed

Quantity

unknown plants

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Weather in Wellington, New Zealand New

Daily high and low

Too cold for red lettuce so farFrom May 23 to Oct 31, 66 of 162 days had a high inside the best range of 12–21°C. The low reached the killing temperature of 0°C on 1 day. The highs were below the best range on 96 days. The weather was too cold on 48 days (lows below 5°C).

2 °C frost lineDies at 0 °CGrows at 5–30°Grows best 12–21°

Daily rainfall

Rain: 575 mm
Hottest day: 15.3°C
Coldest night: -0.5°C
Soil temperature: 9.2°C
Days in its best range: 66 of 162
Days: 162

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

2020-05-26_01-31-22

by shiny 2020-05-26 0

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by shiny 2020-05-23 0

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by shiny 2020-05-23 0

Observations

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

2020-05-23 Day 0

Planted

Frost

Experimental · new and might be flaky

Frost may have reached this red lettuce planting

7 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was -0.5 °C.

This red lettuce planting against the frost season

Frost danger

22 Jun – 28 Aug

23 Jun →

This planting

Finished 31 Oct

Planted 97 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

-0.5 °C

2.5 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line

Frost danger it grew through

120 days

from planting to the latest it has come, 30 Sep

Usual last frost

28 Aug

planted 97 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)