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kale grown by shiny

Planted 2018-01-02

Harvest started 2018-01-29

Finished 2018-09-08

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Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

almost 9 years ago 2018-01-02

Progress

Done 249 days

Quantity

unknown plants

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Weather in wellington, new zealand New

Daily high and low
Too cold for kale so farFrom Jan 02 to Sep 08, 93 of 250 days had a high inside the best range of 15–22°C. The highs were below the best range on 150 days and above the best range on 7 days. The weather was too cold on 83 days (lows below 7°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at 0 °CGrows at 7–30°Grows best 15–22°
Daily rainfall
Rain
884 mm
Hottest day
24.6°C
Coldest night
1.2°C
Soil temperature
12.6°C
Days in its best range
93 of 250
Days
250

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.

  1. Day 0
    Planted

Frost may have reached this kale planting

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

This kale 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 239 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

Photo of kale

Kale

Brassica oleracea Acephala group

a variety of Brassica Oleracea Acephela Group

  • 75 plantings
  • 24 harvests
  • An annual, living about 178 days
  • First harvest about 43 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 118 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other kale plantings at the same latitude.