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grown by shiny in The Deck · Wellington, New zealand

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Planted 2019-02-16

First harvest expected 2019-05-03

Finished 2019-06-15

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Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

over 7 years ago 2019-02-16

Progress

Done 119 days

Quantity

unknown plants

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Weather in Wellington, New zealand New

Daily high and low
Too cold for eggplant so farFrom Feb 16 to Jun 15, 1 of 120 days had a high inside the best range of 20–35°C. The highs were below the best range on 119 days. The weather was too cold on 49 days (lows below 9°C).
2 °C frost lineGrows at 9–40°Grows best 20–35°
Daily rainfall
Rain
458 mm
Hottest day
20.0°C
Coldest night
3.1°C
Soil temperature
13.2°C
Days in its best range
1 of 120
Days
120

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

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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 eggplant planting

Frost was possible until 1 Oct, and no night in that time was colder than 3.1 °C. The eggplant planting went in on 16 Feb, 194 days before the usual last frost (29 Aug).

This eggplant planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
3.1 °C
1.1 °C above the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
12 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 1 Oct
Usual last frost
29 Aug
planted 194 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

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Crop

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Eggplant

Solanum melongena

  • 52 plantings
  • 10 harvests
  • An annual, living about 119 days
  • First harvest about 76 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 139 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

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