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Perpetual Spinach planting

grown by shiny in Big main bed · Wellington, NZ

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Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

9 months ago 2026-02-22

Progress

Done 260 days

Quantity

3 plants

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Short code

5LUH for plant markers and labels

Perennial

keeps growing year to year

Weather in Wellington, NZ New

Daily high and low
Too cold for perpetual spinach so farFrom Feb 22 to Nov 08, 57 of 260 days had a high inside the best range of 15–25°C. The highs were below the best range on 203 days. The weather was too cold on 30 days (lows below 5°C).
2 °C frost lineGrows at 5–35°Grows best 15–25°
Daily rainfall
Rain
732 mm
Hottest day
20.1°C
Coldest night
1.1°C
Soil temperature
11.2°C
Days in its best range
57 of 260
Days
260

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.

Photos

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Spinach
Spinach
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Frost may have reached this perpetual spinach planting

3 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was 1.1 °C.

This perpetual spinach planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
1.1 °C
0.9 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
120 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 1 Oct
Usual last frost
29 Aug
planted 188 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

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Perpetual Spinach

Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla

a variety of Chard

  • 11 plantings
  • 10 harvests
  • A perennial
  • First harvest about 148 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

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