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grown by ypgarden in Garden · Mountain View, CA

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Planted 2011-01-09

First harvest expected 2011-03-15

Finished 2011-05-01

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  • spinach
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(One emoji = 1 week)

No harvest months for this crop at this latitude yet.

Planted

almost 16 years ago 2011-01-09

Progress

Done 112 days

Quantity

6 seedlings

Grown in

semi-shade

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Seedling

Weather in Mountain View, CA New

Daily high and low
Mixed conditions for spinach so farFrom Jan 09 to May 01, 81 of 113 days had a high inside the best range of 13–20°C. The highs were below the best range on 21 days and above the best range on 11 days. The weather was too hot on 1 day (highs above 27°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at 0 °CGrows at 2–27°Grows best 13–20°
Daily rainfall
Rain
292 mm
Hottest day
27.6°C
Coldest night
2.6°C
Soil temperature
11.8°C
Days in its best range
81 of 113
Days
113

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

The spinach did okay but was never super-productive. Retired by the summer.

Photos

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Observations

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

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    Planted

No frost reached this spinach planting

Frost was possible until 20 Feb, and no night in that time was colder than 2.6 °C. The spinach planting went in on 9 Jan, 11 days before the usual last frost (20 Jan).

This spinach planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
2.6 °C
0.6 °C above the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
43 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 20 Feb
Usual last frost
20 Jan
planted 11 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

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Spinach

Spinacia oleracea

  • 83 plantings
  • 18 harvests
  • An annual, living about 121 days
  • First harvest about 70 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 88 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other spinach plantings at the same latitude.