Welsh Onion planting

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

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Harvest months

Spring

Summer

Autumn

Winter

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

almost 12 years ago 2014-12-29

Progress

unknown no finish predicted

Quantity

24 seedlings

Grown in

full sun

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Seedling

Perennial

keeps growing year to year

Weather in Ballarat, Victoria New

Daily high and low

Too hot and too cold for Welsh onion so farFrom Sep 22 to Sep 21, 191 of 366 days had a high inside the best range of 12–25°C. The highs were below the best range on 90 days and above the best range on 85 days. The weather was too hot on 25 days (highs above 30°C) and too cold on 93 days (lows below 6°C).

2 °C frost lineGrows at 6–30°Grows best 12–25°

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 September 21, 2016, when it was expected to finish.

Rain: 651 mm
Hottest day: 38.3°C
Coldest night: -0.2°C
Soil temperature: 14.3°C
Days in its best range: 191 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

a punnet of red clumping spring onions. bet the birds dig them all up, the little bastards :-/

Photos

No photos yet.

Observations

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

2014-12-29 Day 0

Planted

Frost

Experimental · new and might be flaky

Frost may have reached this Welsh onion planting

8 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was -0.2 °C.

This Welsh onion planting against the frost season

Frost danger

31 May – 2 Oct

1 Jun →

This planting

Finished 21 Sep

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

Coldest night

-0.2 °C

2.2 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line

Frost danger it grew through

183 days

from planting to the latest it has come, 27 Oct

Usual last frost

2 Oct

has come as late as 27 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)