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brandywine tomato Brandywine Tomato planting

grown by shiny in The Deck · Wellington, New zealand

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Done

Planted 2019-09-29

Harvest started 2020-03-21

Finished 2020-04-10

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Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

about 7 years ago 2019-09-29

Progress

Done 194 days

Quantity

9 seeds

Grown in

sun

Rating

not rated

Parent Seed

Weather in Wellington, New zealand New

Daily high and low
Too cold for brandywine tomato so farFrom Sep 29 to Apr 10, 7 of 195 days had a high inside the best range of 20–27°C. The highs were below the best range on 188 days. The weather was too cold on 18 days (lows below 7°C).
2 °C frost lineGrows at 7–35°Grows best 20–27°
Daily rainfall
Rain
478 mm
Hottest day
20.5°C
Coldest night
2.7°C
Soil temperature
15.0°C
Days in its best range
7 of 195
Days
195

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

Should take 90 to 100 days to mature.

2019-11-23 planted out into bed near garage, and bigger vege bed

Photos

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Observations

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

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    Planted

No frost reached this brandywine tomato planting

Frost was possible until 1 Oct, and no night in that time was colder than 5.4 °C. The brandywine tomato planting went in on 29 Sep, 31 days after the usual last frost (29 Aug).

This brandywine tomato planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
5.4 °C
3.4 °C above the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
3 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 1 Oct
Usual last frost
29 Aug
planted 31 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)

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Crop

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Brandywine Tomato

Solanum lycopersicum

a variety of Heirloom Tomato

  • 9 plantings
  • 5 harvests
  • An annual, living about 191 days
  • First harvest about 171 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other brandywine tomato plantings at the same latitude.