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Planted 2026-10-24

First harvest expected 2026-12-10

Finish expected 2027-02-03

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

Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

20 days ago 2026-10-24

Progress

19% day 20 of 102

Quantity

unknown plants

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Short code

QSWN for plant markers and labels

Weather in Kilbirnie, Wellington New

Daily high and low
Good conditions for lettuce so farFrom Oct 24 to Nov 08, 15 of 16 days had a high inside the best range of 12–21°C. The highs were below the best range on 1 day.
Expected to suit lettuceGoing by last year's weather, 86 of the 87 days from Nov 09 to Feb 03 should have a high inside the best range of 12–21°C. The highs could be above the best range on 1 day.
Latest, Nov 08: 16.3°C / 11.8°C2 °C frost lineDies at 0 °CGrows at 5–30°Grows best 12–21°
Daily rainfall
Latest, Nov 08: 1.9 mm

The dotted lines and bars are expected weather, last year's data for the same days moved forward a year. They are not observed.

Rain
23 mm
Hottest day
18.3°C
Coldest night
6.4°C
Soil temperature
14.8°C
Days in its best range
15 of 16
Days
16

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 danger has passed for this lettuce planting

The latest a frost has come in past years is 1 Oct, 43 days ago. The lettuce planting went in on 24 Oct, 56 days after the usual last frost (29 Aug).

This lettuce planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting so far
  • Planting still to come
Usual last frost
29 Aug
has come as late as 1 Oct
Next frost danger starts
23 Jun
as early as 4 Jun, 140 days after this lettuce planting finishes
Frost-free season
295 days
in a typical year

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)

Harvests

No harvests recorded yet.

Seeds saved

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Jobs

place tilted jars of yeast+warm water (or beer) as slug traps

13 days ago

Pull out plants that have bolted

in 2 months

Start picking the outer leaves

in 20 days

Sow another batch for a continuous harvest

in 8 days

Weed around the seedlings

6 days ago

Finished

Water regularly

20 days ago

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Crop

Photo of lettuce

Lettuce

Lactuca sativa

  • 177 plantings
  • 77 harvests
  • An annual, living about 102 days
  • First harvest about 40 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 108 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other lettuce plantings at the same latitude.