Strawberry planting

grown by shiny in Brick lined garden beside the garage 🍅🧱 · Wellington, New zealand

All of shiny's plantings

Done

Harvest months

Spring

Summer

Autumn

Winter

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

about 10 years ago 2016-09-03

Progress

Done 994 days

Quantity

6 seedlings

Grown in

partial shade

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Seedling

Perennial

keeps growing year to year

Weather in Wellington, New zealand New

Daily high and low

Too cold for strawberry so farFrom May 25 to May 25, 282 of 366 days had a high inside the best range of 11–24°C. The highs were below the best range on 83 days and above the best range on 1 day. The weather was too cold on 69 days (lows below 6°C).

2 °C frost lineGrows at 6–28°Grows best 11–24°

Daily rainfall

Rain: 1,105 mm
Hottest day: 25.9°C
Coldest night: 1.2°C
Soil temperature: 12.8°C
Days in its best range: 282 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

damaged (frozen) by spring hail build up over the plants

Added more strawberry plants

6/11/2017: put a bigger net over it.

12/11/2017 something is eating the fruit before us. Snails, slugs? slaters?

26/11/2017 Shovelled compost next to them.

14/01/2018 added sheep pellets

Photos

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More photos

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

No frost reached this strawberry planting

Frost was possible until 1 Oct. We have no night temperatures for this strawberry planting.

This strawberry planting against the frost season

Frost danger

23 Jun – 29 Aug

22 Jun →

This planting

Finished 25 May

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Usual frost danger
Possible: as early or late as it has come
Planting, finished

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)