Kale planting

grown by ypgarden in Garden · Mountain View, CA

All of ypgarden's plantings

Finished

Planted 2014-10-29

First harvest expected 2015-03-23

Finished 2015-05-24

(One emojii = 1 week)

Daily high and low New

2 °C frost line

Daily rainfall

Rain: 276 mm
Hottest day: 31.2°C
Coldest night: 0.5°C
Soil temperature: 15.3°C
Days: 174

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.

No harvest months for this crop at this latitude yet.

Planted

about 12 years ago 2014-10-29

Progress

Done 207 days

Quantity

12 seedlings

Grown in

shade

Rating

not rated

Notes

204-10-29: Planted 4 kale in earthbox (with spinach and garlic) on north-facing balcony. Planted 2 with herbs in railing basket on north-facing balcony.

2015-01-19: Got a different variety of kale. Planted 1 kale with lemon tree and 1 kale in separate pot on south-facing balcony. Planted 3 kale in second earthbox (with broccoli) on north-facing balcony.

2015-01-25: Harvested some of the first round of kale.

2015-05-02: Harvested most of the remaining kale. (Harvested several other times since the last update, and some regrew.)

2015-05-24: We actually have a bit of one kale left, since it keeps re-growing, but the others are all past done.

Photos

No photos yet.

Frost

Experimental · new and might be flaky

Frost may have reached this kale planting

One night while frost was possible was at or below 2 °C. The coldest was 0.5 °C.

This kale planting against the frost season

Frost danger

29 Dec – 20 Jan

This planting

Finished 24 May

Planted 83 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

1.5 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line

Frost danger it grew through

80 days

from planting to the latest it has come, 20 Feb

Usual last frost

20 Jan

planted 83 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)