Rainbow Chard planting

grown by shiny in Big main bed · Wellington, NZ

All of shiny's plantings

Finished

Planted 2026-02-22

Harvest started 2026-10-15

Finished 2026-10-31

(One emoji = 1 week)

Harvest months

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Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

9 months ago 2026-02-22

Progress

Done 251 days

Quantity

1 plant

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Weather in Wellington, NZ New

Daily high and low Climate well below optimal for rainbow chard

2 °C frost lineGrows best 15–25°Survives 5–35°

Daily rainfall

Rain: 721 mm
Hottest day: 20.1°C
Coldest night: 1.1°C
Soil temperature: 11.0°C
Days in its best range: 14 of 252
Days: 252

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.

Photos

IMG_0352

by shiny 2026-10-18 0

Frost

Experimental · new and might be flaky

Frost may have reached this rainbow chard planting

3 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was 1.1 °C.

This rainbow chard planting against the frost season

Frost danger

23 Jun – 29 Aug

23 Jun →

This planting

Finished 31 Oct

Planted 188 days before the usual last frost

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Usual frost danger
Possible: as early or late as it has come
Planting, finished

Coldest night

1.1 °C

0.9 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line

Frost danger it grew through

120 days

from planting to the latest it has come, 1 Oct

Usual last frost

29 Aug

planted 188 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)