Chives planting

grown by Skud in Ballarat backyard, zone 1 · Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

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Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

almost 13 years ago 2014-01-22

Progress

unknown no finish predicted

Quantity

1 advanced plant

Grown in

full sun

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Advanced plant

Perennial

keeps growing year to year

Weather in Ballarat, Victoria New

Daily high and low

Mixed conditions for chives so farFrom Jan 22 to Dec 06, 193 of 319 days had a high inside the best range of 10–20°C. The highs were below the best range on 29 days and above the best range on 97 days. The weather was too hot on 4 days (highs above 35°C) and too cold on 8 days (lows below 2°C).

2 °C frost lineGrows at 2–35°Grows best 10–20°

Daily rainfall

Nobody has marked this planting as finished, and it is long past when it should have finished, so the weather shown ends on December 06, 2014, when it was expected to finish.

Rain: 443 mm
Hottest day: 38.6°C
Coldest night: -1.6°C
Soil temperature: 13.2°C
Days in its best range: 193 of 319
Days: 319

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

I dug this up from the old garden and brought to Ballarat with me. It was unhappy for a while, but finally took off in the spring of 2014. As it flowered and the heads dried out, I picked them off and tucked them under the mulch around where I hope more will grow next year. Let's see how that works out!

Photos

No photos yet.

Observations

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

2014-01-22 Day 0

Planted

Frost

Experimental · new and might be flaky

Frost may have reached this chives planting

8 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was -1.6 °C.

This chives planting against the frost season

Frost danger

1 Jun – 3 Oct

1 Jun →

This planting

Finished 6 Dec

Planted 254 days before the usual last frost

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

Coldest night

-1.6 °C

3.6 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line

Frost danger it grew through

182 days

from planting to the latest it has come, 28 Oct

Usual last frost

3 Oct

planted 254 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)