Rainbow Chard planting

grown by shiny in Front lawn 2 rua · Wellington, New Zealand

All of shiny's plantings

Done

Planted 2020-06-01
First harvest 2020-10-29
Finished 2020-10-30

Harvest months

Spring

Summer

Autumn

Winter

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

over 6 years ago 2020-06-01

Progress

Done 151 days

Degree days

610 of about 40 needed

Quantity

16 seedlings

Grown in

full sun

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Seedling

Weather in Wellington, New Zealand New

Daily high and low

Too cold for rainbow chard so farFrom Jun 01 to Oct 30, 3 of 152 days had a high inside the best range of 15–25°C. The highs were below the best range on 149 days. The weather was too cold on 47 days (lows below 5°C).

2 °C frost lineGrows at 5–35°Grows best 15–25°

Daily rainfall

Rain: 522 mm
Hottest day: 15.3°C
Coldest night: -0.5°C
Soil temperature: 9.2°C
Days in its best range: 3 of 152
Days: 152

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

"rainbow beet".

Photos

2020-08-17_11-09-54

by shiny 2020-08-17 0

Observations

Nothing noticed yet. Note when it flowers, fruits, wilts or falls ill.

2020-06-01 Day 0

Planted

Frost

Experimental · new and might be flaky

Frost may have reached this rainbow chard planting

7 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was -0.5 °C.

This rainbow chard planting against the frost season

Frost danger

22 Jun – 28 Aug

23 Jun →

This planting

Finished 30 Oct

Planted 88 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

-0.5 °C

2.5 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line

Frost danger it grew through

120 days

from planting to the latest it has come, 30 Sep

Usual last frost

28 Aug

planted 88 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)