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romaine lettuce Romaine Lettuce planting

grown by shiny in Sunny bed · Wellington, New zealand

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Planted 2017-04-07

First harvest expected 2017-06-25

Finished 2017-09-16

  • romaine lettuce
  • romaine lettuce
  • romaine lettuce
  • romaine lettuce
  • romaine lettuce
  • romaine lettuce
  • romaine lettuce
  • romaine lettuce
  • romaine lettuce
  • romaine lettuce
  • romaine lettuce
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Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

over 9 years ago 2017-04-07

Progress

Done 162 days

Quantity

5 plants

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Weather in Wellington, New zealand New

Daily high and low
Too cold for romaine lettuce so farFrom Apr 07 to Sep 16, 59 of 163 days had a high inside the best range of 12–21°C. The highs were below the best range on 104 days. The weather was too cold on 42 days (lows below 5°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at 0 °CGrows at 5–30°Grows best 12–21°
Daily rainfall
Rain
653 mm
Hottest day
17.7°C
Coldest night
0.4°C
Soil temperature
9.2°C
Days in its best range
59 of 163
Days
163

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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Frost may have reached this romaine lettuce planting

2 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was 0.4 °C.

This romaine lettuce planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
0.4 °C
1.6 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
105 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 1 Oct
Usual last frost
29 Aug
planted 144 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)

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Crop

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Romaine Lettuce

Lactuca sativa var. longifolia

a variety of Lettuce

  • 18 plantings
  • 6 harvests
  • An annual, living about 88 days
  • First harvest about 58 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 64 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other romaine lettuce plantings at the same latitude.