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Planted 2013-09-02

First harvest expected 2013-10-26

Finished 2014-03-08

  • kale
  • kale
  • kale
  • kale
  • kale
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(One emoji = 1 week)

No harvest months for this crop at this latitude yet.

Planted

about 13 years ago 2013-09-02

Progress

Done 187 days

Quantity

6 seedlings

Grown in

sun

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Seedling

Weather in Mountain View, CA New

Daily high and low
Too cold for kale so farFrom Sep 02 to Mar 08, 103 of 188 days had a high inside the best range of 15–22°C. The low reached the killing temperature of 0°C on 1 day. The highs were below the best range on 28 days and above the best range on 57 days. The weather was too hot on 6 days (highs above 30°C) and too cold on 52 days (lows below 7°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at 0 °CGrows at 7–30°Grows best 15–22°
Daily rainfall
Rain
165 mm
Hottest day
34.8°C
Coldest night
-0.5°C
Soil temperature
15.0°C
Days in its best range
103 of 188
Days
188

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

2013-09-02

Planted on both north and south facing balconies, 1-3 per pot.

2014-03-08: Retired.

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Observations

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

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    Planted

Frost may have reached this kale planting

6 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was -0.5 °C.

This kale planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
-0.5 °C
2.5 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
80 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 20 Feb
Usual last frost
20 Jan
planted 140 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)

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Crop

Photo of kale

Kale

Brassica oleracea Acephala group

a variety of Brassica Oleracea Acephela Group

  • 75 plantings
  • 24 harvests
  • An annual, living about 178 days
  • First harvest about 43 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 118 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other kale plantings at the same latitude.