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pumpkin grown by auntie
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Planted 2020-01-02

First harvest expected 2020-05-29

Finished 2020-05-08

(One emoji = 1 week)

Harvest months

Spring
September
October
November, usually harvesting
Summer
December
January
February
Autumn
March, usually harvesting
April, usually harvesting
May, usually harvesting
Winter
June
July
August

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

almost 7 years ago 2020-01-02

Progress

Done 127 days

Quantity

unknown plants

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Weather in palmerston north, new zealand New

Daily high and low
Too cold for pumpkin so farFrom Jan 02 to May 08, 66 of 128 days had a high inside the best range of 20–30°C. The highs were below the best range on 62 days. The weather was too cold on 21 days (lows below 9°C).
2 °C frost lineGrows at 9–38°Grows best 20–30°
Daily rainfall
Rain
206 mm
Hottest day
29.5°C
Coldest night
5.2°C
Soil temperature
17.4°C
Days in its best range
66 of 128
Days
128

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.

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pumpkin
pumpkin
by auntie

No frost reached this pumpkin planting

Frost was possible until 8 Nov, and no night in that time was colder than 6.3 °C. The pumpkin planting went in on 2 Jan, 279 days before the usual last frost (7 Oct).

This pumpkin planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
6.3 °C
4.3 °C above the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
2 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 8 Nov
Usual last frost
7 Oct
planted 279 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

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Pumpkin

Cucurbita spp.

a variety of Cucurbita Pepo

  • 32 plantings
  • 21 harvests
  • An annual, living about 149 days
  • First harvest about 148 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 152 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other pumpkin plantings at the same latitude.