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Planted 2020-03-22

First harvest expected 2020-07-18

Finish expected 2020-09-16

  • kale
  • kale
  • kale
  • kale
  • kale
  • kale
  • kale
  • kale
(One emoji = 1 week)

No harvest months for this crop at this latitude yet.

Planted

over 6 years ago 2020-03-22

Progress

Done Finished

Quantity

unknown plants

Grown in

not specified

Rating

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Short code

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Weather in Wing, Buckinghamshire New

Daily high and low
2 °C frost lineDies at 0 °CGrows at 7–30°Grows best 15–22°
Daily rainfall
Rain
632 mm
Hottest day
35.0°C
Coldest night
-5.4°C
Soil temperature
12.6°C
Days in its best range
95 of 358
Days
358

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

Kalettes Mixed F1 from Johnson Brussel sprouts x kale Sow Feb-Apr, harvest Oct-Mar Space 60cm apart each way when planted out 24/4/2020 Transplanted all 4 seedlings into 3" pots (coir compost) and moved to lower greenhouse

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No frost reached this kale planting

Frost was possible until 10 May. We have no night temperatures for this kale planting. The kale planting went in on 22 Mar, 35 days before the usual last frost (26 Apr).

This kale planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Frost danger it grew through
50 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 10 May
Usual last frost
26 Apr
planted 35 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

Photo of kale

Kale

Brassica oleracea Acephala group

a variety of Brassica Oleracea Acephela Group

  • 75 plantings
  • 24 harvests
  • An annual, living about 178 days
  • First harvest about 43 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 118 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other kale plantings at the same latitude.