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rainbow chard grown by shiny
  1. Planted 2016-09-03
  2. First harvest 2016-11-11
  3. Last harvest 2017-11-04
  4. Finished 2017-11-05

Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

about 10 years ago 2016-09-03

Progress

Done 428 days

Degree days

2,549 of about 40 needed

Quantity

8 seedlings

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Seedling

Weather in Wellington, New zealand New

Daily high and low
Too cold for rainbow chard so farFrom Nov 05 to Nov 05, 117 of 366 days had a high inside the best range of 15–25°C. The highs were below the best range on 249 days. The weather was too cold on 44 days (lows below 5°C).
2 °C frost lineGrows at 5–35°Grows best 15–25°
Daily rainfall
Rain
1,305 mm
Hottest day
21.7°C
Coldest night
0.4°C
Soil temperature
12.1°C
Days in its best range
117 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.

Notes

something is eating this

Photos

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IMG_20161111_170458
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DSC_6490
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IMG_20161024_151301
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IMG_20161019_083821
by shiny

Observations

Nothing noticed yet. Note when it flowers, fruits, wilts or falls ill.

  1. Day 0
    Planted

Frost may have reached this rainbow chard planting

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

This rainbow chard 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
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

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Crop

Photo of rainbow chard

Rainbow Chard

Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris

a variety of Chard

  • 21 plantings
  • 12 harvests
  • An annual, living about 251 days
  • First harvest about 82 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 240 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other rainbow chard plantings at the same latitude.