Perpetual Spinach planting

grown by Skud in Ballarat backyard, zone 1 · Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

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Harvest months

Spring

Summer

Autumn

Winter

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

almost 12 years ago 2014-12-29

Progress

unknown no finish predicted

Quantity

3 seedlings

Grown in

sun

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Seedling

Perennial

keeps growing year to year

Weather in Ballarat, Victoria New

Daily high and low

Not optimal for perpetual spinach so farFrom Dec 29 to Oct 05, 67 of 281 days averaged inside the best range of 15–25°C. The weather was too hot on 2 days (highs above 35°C) and too cold on 82 days (lows below 5°C).

2 °C frost lineSurvives 5–35°Grows best 15–25°

Daily rainfall

Nobody has marked this planting as finished, and it is long past when it should have finished, so the weather shown ends on October 05, 2015, when it was expected to finish.

Rain: 347 mm
Hottest day: 36.8°C
Coldest night: -1.6°C
Soil temperature: 12.2°C
Days in its best range: 67 of 281
Days: 281

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.

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Frost

Experimental · new and might be flaky

No frost reached this perpetual spinach planting

Frost was possible until 28 Oct. We have no night temperatures for this perpetual spinach planting. The perpetual spinach planting went in on 29 Dec, 87 days after the usual last frost (3 Oct).

This perpetual spinach planting against the frost season

Frost danger

1 Jun – 3 Oct

This planting

Finished 5 Oct

Planted 87 days after the usual last frost

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Usual frost danger
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Planting, finished

Frost danger it grew through

159 days

from planting to the latest it has come, 28 Oct

Usual last frost

3 Oct

planted 87 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)