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Planted 2018-12-22

First harvest expected 2019-04-29

Finished 2019-04-19

(One emoji = 1 week)

Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

almost 8 years ago 2018-12-22

Progress

Done 118 days

Quantity

unknown seeds

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Seed

Weather in Wellington, New Zealand New

Daily high and low
Good conditions for sunflower so farFrom Dec 22 to Apr 19, 77 of 119 days had a high inside the best range of 17–34°C. The highs were below the best range on 42 days.
2 °C frost lineDies at 0 °CGrows at 5–45°Grows best 17–34°
Daily rainfall
Rain
284 mm
Hottest day
25.9°C
Coldest night
5.1°C
Soil temperature
17.0°C
Days in its best range
77 of 119
Days
119

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

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No frost reached this sunflower planting

Frost was possible until 1 Oct. We have no night temperatures for this sunflower planting. The sunflower planting went in on 22 Dec, 115 days after the usual last frost (29 Aug).

This sunflower 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, 1 Oct
Usual last frost
29 Aug
planted 115 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)

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Crop

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Sunflower

Helianthus annuus

  • 60 plantings
  • 9 harvests
  • An annual, living about 95 days
  • First harvest about 128 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 129 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other sunflower plantings at the same latitude.