Sweet Potato planting

grown by tiki19 in Watered garden · Thornlie, Perth, Western Australia (southern suburbs, Bassendean sands)

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Done

Planted 2012-10-20
First harvest 2013-01-12 expected
Finished 2013-04-05 expected

No harvest months for this crop at this latitude yet.

Planted

about 14 years ago 2012-10-20

Progress

Done Finished

Degree days

15,884 of about 1,040 needed

Quantity

1 plant

Grown in

full sun

Rating

not rated

Weather in Thornlie, Perth New

Daily high and low

Dies at 5 °CGrows at 10–38°Grows best 18–28°

Daily rainfall

Rain: 648 mm
Hottest day: 40.7°C
Coldest night: 2.9°C
Soil temperature: 19.5°C
Days in its best range: 187 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

Purple sweet potato, already growing strongly and just starting to vine-out. Planted at the east end of the summer bed to be groundcover for the other plants. Grew very strongly and effectively across summer - very heat hardy. Leaves harvested for eating intermittently through summer and autumn. First tuber harvested 24/06/13, when I noticed the ground around the plant was getting pushed up. Tuber was 2.5 kg and bigger than my melons! Second tuber left in place for plant to continue growing. (it's in permanent shade at midwinter but is coping fine with that for now).

Photos

No photos yet.

Observations

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

2012-10-20 Day 0

Planted

Frost

Experimental · new and might be flaky

Frost is rare here

Frost is rare in this area, so we show no frost dates.

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)