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Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

almost 10 years ago 2017-02-09

Progress

Done 658 days

Quantity

6 seeds

Grown in

sun

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Seed

Perennial

keeps growing year to year

Weather in Wellington, New zealand New

Daily high and low
Too cold for Welsh onion so farFrom Nov 29 to Nov 29, 248 of 366 days had a high inside the best range of 12–25°C. The highs were below the best range on 118 days. The weather was too cold on 70 days (lows below 6°C).
2 °C frost lineGrows at 6–30°Grows best 12–25°
Daily rainfall
Rain
1,173 mm
Hottest day
24.6°C
Coldest night
1.2°C
Soil temperature
13.0°C
Days in its best range
248 of 366
Days
366

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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Onion flower
Onion flower
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IMG_20171010_192134
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Bunching spring onions
Bunching spring onions
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IMG_20170309_073927
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IMG_20170209_192125
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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 Welsh onion planting

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

This Welsh onion 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
120 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 1 Oct
Usual last frost
29 Aug
has come as late as 1 Oct

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

Welsh onion harvest
whole plant

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Crop

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Welsh Onion

Allium fistulosum

a variety of Onion

  • 6 plantings
  • 20 harvests
  • A perennial
  • First harvest about 114 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other Welsh onion plantings at the same latitude.