shiny

lettuce Lettuce planting

grown by shiny in Big main bed · Wellington, NZ

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6TLV

Planted 2026-09-24

First harvest expected 2026-11-23

Finish expected 2027-01-04

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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 2026-09-24

Progress

50% day 51 of 102

Quantity

1 plant

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Short code

6TLV for plant markers and labels

Weather in Wellington, NZ New

Daily high and low
Too cold for lettuce so farFrom Sep 24 to Nov 09, 38 of 47 days had a high inside the best range of 12–21°C. The highs were below the best range on 9 days. The weather was too cold on 3 days (lows below 5°C).
Expected to suit lettuceGoing by last year's weather, 56 of the 56 days from Nov 10 to Jan 04 should have a high inside the best range of 12–21°C.
Latest, Nov 09: 14.6°C / 11.4°C2 °C frost lineDies at 0 °CGrows at 5–30°Grows best 12–21°
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
83 mm
Hottest day
18.3°C
Coldest night
3.5°C
Soil temperature
12.8°C
Days in its best range
38 of 47
Days
47

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 lettuce planting

The latest a frost has come in past years is 1 Oct, 44 days ago. The lettuce planting went in on 24 Sep, 26 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
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, 170 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)

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Crop

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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
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