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Stewart island potato Stewart Island Potato planting

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

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Done
  1. Planted 2018-11-15
  2. Finished 2019-03-09
  3. First harvest 2019-04-16 expected

Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

about 8 years ago 2018-11-15

Progress

Done 114 days

Degree days

923 of about 1,170 needed

Quantity

8 roots/tubers

Grown in

shade

Rating

not rated

Parent Seed

Grown from

Root/tuber Your stewart island potato packet

Seeds saved

1 packet of seed

Weather in Wellington, New zealand New

Daily high and low
Mixed conditions for Stewart island potato so farFrom Nov 15 to Mar 09, 99 of 115 days had a high inside the best range of 15–25°C. The highs were below the best range on 15 days and above the best range on 1 day. The weather was too cold on 4 days (lows below 7°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at 0 °CGrows at 7–30°Grows best 15–25°
Daily rainfall
Rain
322 mm
Hottest day
25.9°C
Coldest night
6.3°C
Soil temperature
17.5°C
Days in its best range
99 of 115
Days
115

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

Found by Kay Baxter rowing wild in a clifff face along the shore on Stewart Island around 1990. It is an extremely beautiful variety similar in shape to Whataroa and Chatham Islands however this one has pink rather than purple colouring on the skin.

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 Stewart island potato planting

Frost was possible until 1 Oct. We have no night temperatures for this Stewart island potato planting. The Stewart island potato planting went in on 15 Nov, 78 days after the usual last frost (29 Aug).

This Stewart island potato planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Frost danger it grew through
0 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 1 Oct
Usual last frost
29 Aug
planted 78 days after 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

No harvests recorded yet.

Seeds saved

Stewart island potato

seeds saved by shiny
  • approx. 8 seeds
  • Wellington, NZ

Jobs

This was the last planting recently in this bed. Would you like to cultivate the soil soon? Cultivate soil

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Crop

Photo of Stewart island potato

Stewart Island Potato

a variety of Potato

  • 3 plantings
  • 2 harvests
  • An annual, living about 235 days
  • First harvest about 356 days after planting

World neighbours

Other Stewart island potato plantings at the same latitude.