pea grown by shiny
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Pea planting

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

All of shiny's plantings

Done
  1. Planted 2025-03-13
  2. First harvest 2025-07-13
  3. Finished 2025-09-13

Harvest months

Spring
Summer
Autumn
Winter

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

over 1 year ago 2025-03-13

Progress

Done 184 days

Degree days

1,170 of about 10 needed

Quantity

unknown plants

Grown in

full sun

Rating

3 of 5

Weather in Wellington, New Zealand New

Daily high and low
Too cold for pea so farFrom Mar 13 to Sep 13, 150 of 185 days had a high inside the best range of 10–24°C. The highs were below the best range on 35 days. The weather was too cold on 16 days (lows below 4°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at 0 °CGrows at 4–30°Grows best 10–24°
Daily rainfall
Rain
716 mm
Hottest day
21.1°C
Coldest night
1.7°C
Soil temperature
10.3°C
Days in its best range
150 of 185
Days
185

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

20250722_104006
20250722_104006
by shiny

Observations

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

  1. Day 0
    Planted

Frost

Experimental · new and might be flaky

Frost may have reached this pea planting

2 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was 1.7 °C.

This pea planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
1.7 °C
0.3 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
102 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 1 Oct
Usual last frost
29 Aug
planted 169 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

pea
pea harvest
pod
picked 2025-07-13 by shiny

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Crop

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Pea

Pisum sativum

  • 94 plantings
  • 20 harvests
  • An annual, living about 91 days
  • First harvest about 77 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 90 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun
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