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butterhead lettuce Butterhead Lettuce planting

grown by shiny in Seed raising trays · Wellington, New Zealand

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58EB Done

Planted 2020-04-01

First harvest expected 2020-06-05

Finished 2020-06-06

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Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

over 6 years ago 2020-04-01

Progress

Done 66 days

Quantity

unknown plants

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Short code

58EB for plant markers and labels

Weather in Wellington, New Zealand New

Daily high and low
Too cold for butterhead lettuce so farFrom Apr 01 to Jun 06, 51 of 67 days had a high inside the best range of 12–21°C. The highs were below the best range on 16 days. The weather was too cold on 4 days (lows below 5°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at 0 °CGrows at 5–30°Grows best 12–21°
Daily rainfall
Rain
207 mm
Hottest day
16.7°C
Coldest night
1.9°C
Soil temperature
11.3°C
Days in its best range
51 of 67
Days
67

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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No frost reached this butterhead lettuce planting

Frost was possible until 30 Sep, and no night in that time was colder than 5.1 °C. The butterhead lettuce planting went in on 1 Apr, 149 days before the usual last frost (28 Aug).

This butterhead lettuce planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
5.1 °C
3.1 °C above the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
4 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 30 Sep
Usual last frost
28 Aug
planted 149 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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Butterhead Lettuce

Lactuca sativa var. capitata

a variety of Lettuce

  • 7 plantings
  • 8 harvests
  • An annual, living about 76 days
  • First harvest about 62 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 87 days after planting

World neighbours

Other butterhead lettuce plantings at the same latitude.