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potato grown by shiny
  1. Planted 2016-08-28
  2. First harvest 2016-12-24
  3. Finished 2016-12-24

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

about 10 years ago 2016-08-28

Progress

Done 118 days

Degree days

432 of about 1,170 needed

Quantity

12 roots/tubers

Grown in

partial shade

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Root/tuber

Weather in Wellington, New zealand New

Daily high and low
Too cold for potato so farFrom Aug 28 to Dec 24, 13 of 119 days had a high inside the best range of 15–25°C. The highs were below the best range on 106 days. The weather was too cold on 27 days (lows below 7°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at 0 °CGrows at 7–30°Grows best 15–25°
Daily rainfall
Rain
392 mm
Hottest day
17.8°C
Coldest night
1.2°C
Soil temperature
11.7°C
Days in its best range
13 of 119
Days
119

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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IMG_20160925_114416
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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 potato planting

One night while frost was possible was at or below 2 °C. The coldest was 1.2 °C.

This potato 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
34 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 30 Sep
Usual last frost
28 Aug
planted 0 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

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Potato

Solanum tuberosum

  • 73 plantings
  • 31 harvests
  • An annual, living about 112 days
  • First harvest about 118 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 112 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other potato plantings at the same latitude.