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borage grown by lizzard

Planted 2013-07-01

First harvest expected 2013-08-03

Finished 2015-02-01

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(One emojii = 1 week)
Daily high and low New
2 °C frost line
Daily rainfall
Rain
616 mm
Hottest day
29.2°C
Coldest night
2.3°C
Soil temperature
17.5°C
Days
366

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.

No harvest months for this crop at this latitude yet.

Planted

over 13 years ago 2013-07-01

Progress

Done 580 days

Quantity

2 seedlings

Grown in

semi-shade

Rating

not rated

Notes

Nice blossoms, getting a little bit chewed up by slugs though.

This did very well and had gorgeous flowers. Then it died after a season!

Photos

IMG_4127
IMG_4127
by lizzard

No frost reached this borage planting

Frost was possible until 24 Feb, and no night in that time was colder than 2.3 °C.

This borage planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
2.3 °C
0.3 °C above the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
78 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 24 Feb
Usual last frost
15 Jan
has come as late as 24 Feb

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

No harvests recorded yet.

Seeds saved

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Jobs

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Crop

Photo of borage

Borage

Borago officinalis

  • 20 plantings
  • 3 harvests
  • An annual, living about 53 days
  • First harvest about 33 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other borage plantings at the same latitude.