Squash planting
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grown by Skud in Thornbury back garden · Thornbury, Victoria, Australia
- Sown 2013-09-14
- First harvest 2014-12-06 expected
Harvest months
Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.
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Weather in Thornbury, Victoria New
- Rain
- 861 mm
- Hottest day
- 42.8°C
- Coldest night
- 1.1°C
- Soil temperature
- 15.9°C
- Days in its best range
- 208 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
2 mounds of "Pumpkin: Kuri Red" aka Potimarron. The mounds are by the back fence. Each mound is a load of lawn clippings, with a pit dug in the middle and a couple of bucketloads of compost (from Clarissa, one of our compost bins) put in the centre.
Planted 3 seeds per mound. This is what everyone says to do. What they're less clear on is whether you thin them to the one strongest, or let all of them live?
Because we have mynah birds who like to dig up our garden, I've tented over each mound with a recycled translucent plastic shopping bag: 3 bamboo skewers, point down, surround the seeds as a frame, then I put the plastic bag over them. Then I use three more skewers to pin the bag in place, offset in the gaps between the first skewers. I'm hoping this will protect the seeds/seedlings until they're established.
It's early to be planting these but I'm impatient, and it looks like we're well past the risk of frost. This means we'll probably have squash in high summer. Might plant some more in ~2 months time for an autumn crop.
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Observations
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Day 0Planted
No frost reached this squash planting
Frost was possible until 14 Sep. We have no night temperatures for this squash planting. The squash planting went in on 14 Sep, 18 days after the usual last frost (27 Aug).
This squash planting against the frost season
Planted 18 days after the usual last frost
- Usual frost danger
- Possible: as early or late as it has come
- Planting, finished
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.
Harvests
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Jobs
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Crop
Squash
Curcurbita
- 15 plantings
- 11 harvests
- An annual
- First harvest about 129 days after planting
- Last harvest about 252 days after planting
- Usually grown in sun
World neighbours
Other squash plantings at the same latitude.
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