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Soft Neck Garlic planting

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

All of shiny's plantings

Done
  1. Sown 2019-04-10
  2. First harvest 2019-12-11
  3. Last harvest 2019-12-27
  4. Finished 2019-12-27

Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

over 7 years ago 2019-04-10

Progress

Done 261 days

Degree days

861 of about 1,530 needed

Quantity

unknown plants

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Parent Seed

Variety

WHITE SOUTHERN SOFTNECK from the seed packet

Weather in Wellington, New Zealand New

Daily high and low
Too cold for soft neck garlic so farFrom Apr 10 to Dec 27, 5 of 262 days had a high inside the best range of 18–30°C. The highs were below the best range on 257 days. The weather was too cold on 106 days (lows below 7°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at -5 °CGrows at 7–35°Grows best 18–30°
Daily rainfall
Rain
884 mm
Hottest day
19.1°C
Coldest night
-1.3°C
Soil temperature
10.8°C
Days in its best range
5 of 262
Days
262

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

White southern softneck

Transplanted to sunny bed, on 2019-09-08

Photos

IMG_20190825_082008
IMG_20190825_082008
by shiny

Observations

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

  1. Day 0
    Planted

Frost may have reached this soft neck garlic planting

One night while frost was possible was at or below 2 °C. The coldest was -1.3 °C.

This soft neck garlic planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
-1.3 °C
3.3 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
120 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 1 Oct
Usual last frost
29 Aug
planted 141 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

Photo of soft neck garlic

Soft Neck Garlic

a variety of Garlic

  • 2 plantings
  • 2 harvests
  • An annual, living about 261 days
  • First harvest about 245 days after planting

World neighbours

Other soft neck garlic plantings at the same latitude.