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butternut squash Butternut Squash planting

grown by bigblen in Containers · Rapaki Road, Christchurch

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Finished

Planted 2019-10-27

Harvest started 2020-03-09

Finished 2020-03-31

  • butternut squash
  • butternut squash
(One emojii = 1 week)
Daily high and low New
2 °C frost line
Daily rainfall
Rain
218 mm
Hottest day
34.7°C
Coldest night
5.7°C
Soil temperature
18.7°C
Days
157

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.

Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

about 7 years ago 2019-10-27

Progress

Done 156 days

Quantity

2 seeds

Grown in

semi-shade

Rating

not rated

Notes

Yates Butternut. Seeds a few years old.

Photos

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No frost reached this butternut squash planting

Frost was possible until 15 Oct. We have no night temperatures for this butternut squash planting. The butternut squash planting went in on 27 Oct, 31 days after the usual last frost (26 Sep).

This butternut squash planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Frost danger it grew through
0 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 15 Oct
Usual last frost
26 Sep
planted 31 days after 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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Jobs

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Crop

Photo of butternut squash

Butternut Squash

Cucurbita moschata

a variety of Pumpkin

  • 14 plantings
  • 3 harvests
  • An annual, living about 172 days
  • First harvest about 134 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other butternut squash plantings at the same latitude.