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Planted 2019-11-10

Harvest started 2020-04-28

Finished 2020-04-28

(One emoji = 1 week)

Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

about 7 years ago 2019-11-10

Progress

Done 170 days

Quantity

16 bare root plants

Grown in

sun

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Bare root plant Your kūmara packet

Weather in Wellington, New Zealand New

Daily high and low
Too cold for kūmara so farFrom Nov 10 to Apr 28, 44 of 171 days had a high inside the best range of 18–28°C. The low reached the killing temperature of 5°C on 1 day. The highs were below the best range on 127 days. The weather was too cold on 60 days (lows below 10°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at 5 °CGrows at 10–38°Grows best 18–28°
Daily rainfall
Rain
388 mm
Hottest day
20.5°C
Coldest night
4.4°C
Soil temperature
15.6°C
Days in its best range
44 of 171
Days
171

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 from slips

2019-12-31 Added mulch.

Photos

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No frost reached this kūmara planting

Frost was possible until 1 Oct. We have no night temperatures for this kūmara planting. The kūmara planting went in on 10 Nov, 73 days after the usual last frost (29 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, 1 Oct
Usual last frost
29 Aug
planted 73 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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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.