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rocket potato grown by shiny
Done
  1. Planted 2018-05-20
  2. First harvest 2018-09-07
  3. Finished 2018-09-08

Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

over 8 years ago 2018-05-20

Progress

Done 111 days

Degree days

163 of about 1,170 needed

Quantity

unknown roots/tubers

Grown in

full sun

Rating

not rated

Parent Seed

Grown from

Root/tuber Your rocket potato packet

Weather in Wellington, New Zealand New

Daily high and low
Too cold for rocket potato so farFrom May 20 to Sep 08, 0 of 112 days had a high inside the best range of 15–25°C. The highs were below the best range on 112 days. The weather was too cold on 72 days (lows below 7°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at 0 °CGrows at 7–30°Grows best 15–25°
Daily rainfall
Rain
391 mm
Hottest day
13.4°C
Coldest night
1.2°C
Soil temperature
8.3°C
Days in its best range
0 of 112
Days
112

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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Observations

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

  1. Day 0
    Planted

Frost may have reached this rocket potato planting

3 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was 1.2 °C.

This rocket potato planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
1.2 °C
0.8 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
97 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 1 Oct
Usual last frost
29 Aug
planted 101 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)

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Crop

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Rocket Potato

a variety of Potato

  • 2 plantings
  • 4 harvests
  • An annual, living about 120 days
  • First harvest about 106 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 110 days after planting

World neighbours

Other rocket potato plantings at the same latitude.