iceberg lettuce grown by shiny
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iceberg lettuce Iceberg Lettuce planting

grown by shiny in Vege garden plot 2 · Wellington, New zealand

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Done
  1. Planted 2017-04-05
  2. First harvest 2017-06-22 expected
  3. Finished 2017-09-23

Harvest months

Spring
Summer
Autumn
Winter

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

over 9 years ago 2017-04-05

Progress

Done 171 days

Degree days

711 of about 403 needed

Quantity

6 plants

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Weather in Wellington, New zealand New

Daily high and low
Too cold for iceberg lettuce so farFrom Apr 05 to Sep 23, 64 of 172 days had a high inside the best range of 12–21°C. The highs were below the best range on 108 days. The weather was too cold on 42 days (lows below 5°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at 0 °CGrows at 5–30°Grows best 12–21°
Daily rainfall
Rain
741 mm
Hottest day
17.7°C
Coldest night
0.4°C
Soil temperature
9.2°C
Days in its best range
64 of 172
Days
172

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

Frost

Experimental · new and might be flaky

Frost may have reached this iceberg lettuce planting

2 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was 0.4 °C.

This iceberg lettuce planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
0.4 °C
1.6 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
112 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 1 Oct
Usual last frost
29 Aug
planted 146 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 iceberg lettuce

Iceberg Lettuce

Lactuca sativa var. capitata

a variety of Lettuce

  • 12 plantings
  • 7 harvests
  • An annual, living about 89 days
  • First harvest about 50 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 59 days after planting
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