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kūmara grown by shiny
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Planted 2016-11-13

Harvest started 2017-05-04

Finished 2017-05-06

(One emoji = 1 week)

Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

almost 10 years ago 2016-11-13

Progress

Done 174 days

Quantity

4 bulbs

Grown in

sun

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Bulb

Weather in Wellington, New Zealand New

Daily high and low
Too cold for kūmara so farFrom Nov 13 to May 06, 24 of 175 days had a high inside the best range of 18–28°C. The highs were below the best range on 151 days. The weather was too cold on 55 days (lows below 10°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at 5 °CGrows at 10–38°Grows best 18–28°
Daily rainfall
Rain
537 mm
Hottest day
21.7°C
Coldest night
5.7°C
Soil temperature
14.8°C
Days in its best range
24 of 175
Days
175

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

Planted kumara in sand to start tupu.

Photos

kumara
kumara
by shiny
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IMG_20170324_090115
by shiny
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IMG_20170309_073851
by shiny
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IMG_20170208_075059
by shiny
IMG_20170123_102634
IMG_20170123_102634
by shiny
IMG_20170108_161603
IMG_20170108_161603
by shiny
IMG_20170106_175029
IMG_20170106_175029
by shiny
IMG_20170106_175026
IMG_20170106_175026
by shiny
IMG_20161221_183959
IMG_20161221_183959
by shiny
Kumara
Kumara
by shiny
IMG_20161204_125549
IMG_20161204_125549
by shiny
IMG_20161113_174029
IMG_20161113_174029
by shiny

No frost reached this kūmara planting

Frost was possible until 30 Sep. We have no night temperatures for this kūmara planting. The kūmara planting went in on 13 Nov, 77 days after the usual last frost (28 Aug).

This kūmara 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, 30 Sep
Usual last frost
28 Aug
planted 77 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)

Harvests

kūmara harvest
whole plant

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Crop

Photo of kūmara

Kūmara

Ipomoea batatas

a variety of Sweet Potato

  • 2 plantings
  • 4 harvests
  • An annual, living about 172 days
  • First harvest about 171 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 172 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other kūmara plantings at the same latitude.