Lettuce planting

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

All of Skud's plantings

Done

Planted 2014-06-07
First harvest 2014-07-17 expected
Last harvest 2014-09-23 expected
Finished 2014-12-22

Harvest months

Spring

Summer

Autumn

Winter

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

over 12 years ago 2014-06-07

Progress

Done 198 days

Degree days

1,262 of about 403 needed

Quantity

8 seedlings

Grown in

full sun

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Seedling

Weather in Ballarat, Victoria New

Daily high and low

Too cold for lettuce so farFrom Jun 07 to Dec 22, 84 of 199 days had a high inside the best range of 12–21°C. The low reached the killing temperature of 0°C on 3 days. The highs were below the best range on 71 days and above the best range on 44 days. The weather was too hot on 3 days (highs above 30°C) and too cold on 63 days (lows below 5°C).

2 °C frost lineDies at 0 °CGrows at 5–30°Grows best 12–21°

Daily rainfall

Rain: 267 mm
Hottest day: 31.2°C
Coldest night: -1.6°C
Soil temperature: 11.6°C
Days in its best range: 84 of 199
Days: 199

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

some cos lettuce seedlings from Plants Plus on Leith St

Photos

No photos yet.

Observations

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

2014-06-07 Day 0

Planted

Frost

Experimental · new and might be flaky

Frost may have reached this lettuce planting

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

This lettuce planting against the frost season

Frost danger

1 Jun – 3 Oct

1 Jun →

This planting

Finished 22 Dec

Planted 118 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

144 days

from planting to the latest it has come, 28 Oct

Usual last frost

3 Oct

planted 118 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)