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Garlic planting

grown by shiny in Front berries garden · Wellington, NZ

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Planted 2026-09-20

First harvest expected 2027-05-06

Finish expected 2027-05-04

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Harvest months

Spring
Summer
Autumn
Winter

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

about 2 months ago 2026-09-20

Progress

24% day 55 of 226

Quantity

1 plant

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Weather in Wellington, NZ New

Daily high and low
Too cold for garlic so farFrom Sep 20 to Nov 09, 1 of 51 days had a high inside the best range of 18–30°C. The highs were below the best range on 50 days. The weather was too cold on 16 days (lows below 7°C).
Expected to be too cold for garlicGoing by last year's weather, 27 of the 176 days from Nov 10 to May 04 should have a high inside the best range of 18–30°C. The highs could be below the best range on 149 days. It could be too cold on 9 days (lows below 7°C).
Latest, Nov 09: 14.6°C / 11.4°C2 °C frost lineDies at -5 °CGrows at 7–35°Grows best 18–30°
Daily rainfall
Latest, Nov 09: 0.9 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
101 mm
Hottest day
18.3°C
Coldest night
3.5°C
Soil temperature
12.5°C
Days in its best range
1 of 51
Days
51

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

Frost danger has passed for this garlic planting

The latest a frost has come in past years is 1 Oct, 44 days ago. The garlic planting went in on 20 Sep, 22 days after the usual last frost (29 Aug).

This garlic planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting so far
  • Planting still to come
Coldest night
4.2 °C
2.2 °C above the 2 °C frost danger line
Usual last frost
29 Aug
has come as late as 1 Oct
Next frost danger starts
23 Jun
as early as 4 Jun, 50 days after this garlic 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)

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Crop

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Garlic

Allium sativum

  • 78 plantings
  • 18 harvests
  • An annual, living about 226 days
  • First harvest about 228 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 228 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun
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