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cauliflower Cauliflower planting

grown by shiny in Raised Bed One · Wellington, NZ

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Planted 2026-05-20

Harvest started 2026-11-05

Finish expected 2026-09-15

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Harvest months

Spring
Summer
Autumn
Winter

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

6 months ago 2026-05-20

Progress

100% day 177 of 118

Quantity

2 plants

Grown in

not specified

Rating

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Short code

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Parent Seed

cauliflower
cauliflower

Grown from

Seed Your cauliflower packet

Weather in Wellington, NZ New

Daily high and low
Too cold for cauliflower so farFrom May 20 to Sep 15, 86 of 119 days had a high inside the best range of 10–25°C. The highs were below the best range on 33 days. The weather was too cold on 24 days (lows below 5°C).
Latest, Nov 08: 16.3°C / 11.8°C2 °C frost lineDies at -5 °CGrows at 5–30°Grows best 10–25°
Daily rainfall
Latest, Nov 08: 1.9 mm
Rain
498 mm
Hottest day
18.3°C
Coldest night
1.1°C
Soil temperature
10.2°C
Days in its best range
137 of 173
Days
173

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 cauliflower planting

The latest a frost has come in past years is 1 Oct, 43 days ago. The cauliflower planting went in on 20 May, 101 days before the usual last frost (29 Aug). 3 nights so far were at or below 2 °C, the coldest 1.1 °C.

This cauliflower planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting so far
Coldest night
1.1 °C
0.9 °C below 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, 222 days from now
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

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cauliflower harvest
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picked 2026-11-05 by shiny

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Crop

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Cauliflower

Brassica oleracea var. botrytis

a variety of Brassica Oleracea

  • 25 plantings
  • 13 harvests
  • An annual, living about 118 days
  • First harvest about 153 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 147 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun
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