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lemon balm Lemon Balm planting

grown by jok in Garden · Surrey UK

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QWV9

No harvest months for this crop at this latitude yet.

Planted

over 15 years ago 2011-08-01

Progress

unknown no finish predicted

Quantity

1 plant

Grown in

sun

Rating

not rated

Short code

QWV9 for plant markers and labels

Perennial

keeps growing year to year

Weather in Surrey UK New

Daily high and low
Mixed conditions for lemon balm so farFrom Aug 01 to Nov 09, 84 of 101 days had a high inside the best range of 14–25°C. The highs were below the best range on 14 days and above the best range on 3 days. The weather was too cold on 4 days (lows below 6°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at 0 °CGrows at 6–30°Grows best 14–25°
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 November 09, 2011, when it was expected to finish.

Rain
156 mm
Hottest day
26.2°C
Coldest night
2.3°C
Soil temperature
14.9°C
Days in its best range
84 of 101
Days
101

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

a potted seed a gift from Mr 4 so long ago, now a sizable plant, which I will give him some of when I divide the plant later this year.

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No frost reached this lemon balm planting

Frost was possible until 10 May, and no night in that time was colder than 2.3 °C. The lemon balm planting went in on 1 Aug, 260 days before the usual last frost (17 Apr).

This lemon balm planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
2.3 °C
0.3 °C above the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
25 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 10 May
Usual last frost
17 Apr
planted 260 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 lemon balm

Lemon Balm

Melissa officinalis

  • 15 plantings
  • A perennial
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

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