Skud

rainbow chard Rainbow Chard planting

grown by Skud in Thornbury back garden · Thornbury, Victoria, Australia

All of Skud's plantings

Done
  1. Planted 2012-06-01
  2. First harvest 2012-12-13 expected
  3. Last harvest 2013-01-27 expected
  4. Finished 2013-02-07 expected

Harvest months

Spring
Summer
Autumn
Winter

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

over 14 years ago 2012-06-01

Progress

Done Finished

Degree days

32,045 of about 40 needed

Quantity

8 plants

Grown in

partial shade

Rating

not rated

Weather in Thornbury, Victoria New

Daily high and low
2 °C frost lineGrows at 5–35°Grows best 15–25°
Daily rainfall
Rain
861 mm
Hottest day
42.8°C
Coldest night
1.1°C
Soil temperature
15.9°C
Days in its best range
217 of 361
Days
361

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

Planted before last winter, still going strong.

Photos

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Observations

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    Planted

Frost

Experimental · new and might be flaky

No frost reached this rainbow chard planting

Frost was possible until 13 Sep. We have no night temperatures for this rainbow chard planting. The rainbow chard planting went in on 1 Jun, 86 days before the usual last frost (26 Aug).

This rainbow chard planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Frost danger it grew through
105 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 13 Sep
Usual last frost
26 Aug
planted 86 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)

Harvests

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Crop

Photo of rainbow chard

Rainbow Chard

Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris

a variety of Chard

  • 21 plantings
  • 12 harvests
  • An annual, living about 251 days
  • First harvest about 82 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 240 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun
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