Squash planting

grown by Skud in Ballarat backyard, zone 2 · Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

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Planted 2014-12-24

First harvest expected 2016-02-28

Harvest months

Spring

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Winter

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

almost 12 years ago 2014-12-24

Progress

unknown no finish predicted

Quantity

2 seeds

Grown in

sun

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Seed

Weather in Ballarat, Victoria New

Daily high and low

Too cold for squash so farFrom Dec 24 to Sep 02, 94 of 253 days had a high inside the best range of 16–28°C. The low reached the killing temperature of 2°C on 13 days. The highs were below the best range on 141 days and above the best range on 18 days. The weather was too cold on 184 days (lows below 10°C).

2 °C frost lineDies at 2 °CGrows at 10–38°Grows best 16–28°

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 02, 2015, when it was expected to finish.

Rain: 313 mm
Hottest day: 36.8°C
Coldest night: -1.6°C
Soil temperature: 12.5°C
Days in its best range: 94 of 253
Days: 253

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

Potimarron/kuri squash, planted at foot of a frame for them to grow up. Actually planted a handful of seeds in each of 2 locations, but will thin when they come up.

Photos

No photos yet.

Observations

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

2014-12-24 Day 0

Planted

Frost

Experimental · new and might be flaky

No frost reached this squash planting

Frost was possible until 28 Oct. We have no night temperatures for this squash planting. The squash planting went in on 24 Dec, 82 days after the usual last frost (3 Oct).

This squash planting against the frost season

Frost danger

1 Jun – 3 Oct

1 Jun →

This planting

Finished 2 Sep

Planted 82 days after the usual last frost

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Usual frost danger
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Planting, finished

Frost danger it grew through

126 days

from planting to the latest it has come, 28 Oct

Usual last frost

3 Oct

planted 82 days after 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)