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Black Currant planting

grown by shiny in Front berries garden · Wellington, NZ

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Daily high and low New
Latest, Nov 03: 15.3°C / 12.0°C2 °C frost line
Daily rainfall
Latest, Nov 03: 0.0 mm
Rain
76 mm
Hottest day
17.2°C
Coldest night
3.5°C
Soil temperature
12.2°C
Days
42

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, usually harvesting
January
February
Autumn
March
April
May
Winter
June
July
August

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

about 2 months ago 2026-09-23

Progress

unknown no finish predicted

Quantity

1 plant

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Perennial

keeps growing year to year

Photos

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by shiny

Frost danger has passed for this black currant planting

The latest a frost has come in past years is 1 Oct, 38 days ago. The black currant planting went in on 23 Sep, 25 days after the usual last frost (29 Aug).

This black currant planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting so far
Coldest night
4.2 °C
2.2 °C above the 2 °C frost danger line
Usual last frost
29 Aug
has come as late as 1 Oct
Next frost danger starts
23 Jun
as early as 4 Jun, 227 days from now
Frost-free season
295 days
in a typical year

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

Nothing is planned here.

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Crop

Photo of black currant

Black Currant

Ribes spp.

  • 9 plantings
  • 2 harvests
  • A perennial
  • First harvest about 5319 days after planting
  • Usually grown in semi-shade

World neighbours

Other black currant plantings at the same latitude.