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Planted

about 14 years ago 2012-10-02

Progress

unknown no finish predicted

Quantity

1 seedling

Grown in

sun

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Seedling

Perennial

keeps growing year to year

Weather in Austin, TX New

Daily high and low
Not optimal for lemon balm so farFrom Oct 02 to Jan 10, 58 of 101 days averaged inside the best range of 14–25°C. The weather was too hot on 4 days (highs above 30°C) and too cold on 22 days (lows below 6°C).
2 °C frost lineSurvives 6–30°Grows best 14–25°
Daily rainfall

Nobody has marked this planting as finished, and it is long past when it should have finished, so the weather shown ends on January 10, 2013, when it was expected to finish.

Rain
218 mm
Hottest day
31.6°C
Coldest night
-1.7°C
Soil temperature
17.7°C
Days in its best range
58 of 101
Days
101

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

Thriving and spreading (not too aggressively though).

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Frost may have reached this lemon balm planting

12 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was -1.7 °C.

This lemon balm planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
-1.7 °C
3.7 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
59 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 17 Mar
Usual last frost
24 Feb
planted 145 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 lemon balm

Lemon Balm

Melissa officinalis

  • 15 plantings
  • A perennial
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

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