New Zealand Yam planting

grown by shiny in back yard shaded garden · Miramar, Wellington, New zealand

All of shiny's plantings

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Planted 2017-04-16

Harvest started 2017-07-22

Finished 2018-01-04

(One emoji = 1 week)

Harvest months

Spring

Summer

Autumn

Winter

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

over 9 years ago 2017-04-16

Progress

Done 263 days

Quantity

15 plants

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Short code

JLAA for plant markers and labels

Weather in Miramar, Wellington New

Daily high and low

Too cold for New Zealand yam so farFrom Apr 16 to Jan 04, 149 of 264 days had a high inside the best range of 12–24°C. The highs were below the best range on 115 days. The weather was too cold on 44 days (lows below 5°C).

2 °C frost lineGrows at 5–28°Grows best 12–24°

Daily rainfall

Rain: 781 mm
Hottest day: 22.0°C
Coldest night: 0.4°C
Soil temperature: 11.5°C
Days in its best range: 149 of 264
Days: 264

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

These are self seeding EVERYWHERE. Covered a large area with more dirt, to encourage tubers, instead of just pulling these out like weeds

Photos

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by shiny 2017-07-16 0

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by shiny 2017-04-23 0

yam plants covered over in soil

by shiny 2017-04-16 0

Frost

Experimental · new and might be flaky

Frost may have reached this New Zealand yam planting

2 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was 0.4 °C.

This New Zealand yam planting against the frost season

Frost danger

23 Jun – 29 Aug

23 Jun →

This planting

Finished 4 Jan

Planted 135 days before the usual last frost

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Usual frost danger
Possible: as early or late as it has come
Planting, finished

Coldest night

0.4 °C

1.6 °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 135 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)