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perennial shallot grown by shiny

Planted 2019-09-14

Harvest started 2020-02-06

Finished 2020-02-06

(One emojii = 1 week)
Daily high and low New
2 °C frost line
Daily rainfall
Rain
360 mm
Hottest day
20.5°C
Coldest night
2.5°C
Soil temperature
14.2°C
Days
146

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

about 7 years ago 2019-09-14

Progress

Done 145 days

Quantity

6 bulbs

Grown in

shade

Rating

not rated

Parent seed

Seeds saved

1 packet of seed

Photos

Shallot
Shallot
by shiny
IMG_20191216_181457
IMG_20191216_181457
by shiny
IMG_20191216_181450
IMG_20191216_181450
by shiny
IMG_20191013_150854
IMG_20191013_150854
by shiny
IMG_20191013_150645
IMG_20191013_150645
by shiny
IMG_20190914_161122
IMG_20190914_161122
by shiny

No frost reached this perennial shallot planting

Frost was possible until 1 Oct, and no night in that time was colder than 2.5 °C. The perennial shallot planting went in on 14 Sep, 16 days after the usual last frost (29 Aug).

This perennial shallot planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
2.5 °C
0.5 °C above the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
18 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 1 Oct
Usual last frost
29 Aug
planted 16 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

Seeds saved

perennial shallot saved 2020

perennial shallot

seeds saved by shiny
  • approx. 14 seeds
  • non-certified GMO-free
  • heirloom
  • will trade locally
  • Wellington, NZ

Jobs

Nothing is planned here.

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Crop

Photo of perennial shallot

Perennial Shallot

a variety of Onion

  • 1 planting
  • 1 harvest
  • An annual, living about 145 days
  • First harvest about 145 days after planting
  • Usually grown in shade