shiny

New Zealand Spinach planting

grown by shiny in South garden · Wellington, New zealand

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Summer
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Planted

about 9 years ago 2017-09-29

Progress

Done 22 days

Quantity

1 advanced plant

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Advanced plant

Perennial

keeps growing year to year

Weather in Wellington, New zealand New

Daily high and low
Too cold for New Zealand spinach so farFrom Sep 29 to Oct 21, 0 of 23 days had a high inside the best range of 19–28°C. The highs were below the best range on 23 days. The weather was too cold on 21 days (lows below 10°C).
2 °C frost lineGrows at 10–36°Grows best 19–28°
Daily rainfall
Rain
66 mm
Hottest day
16.2°C
Coldest night
4.6°C
Soil temperature
11.4°C
Days in its best range
0 of 23
Days
23

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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  1. Day 0
    Planted

Frost

Experimental · new and might be flaky

No frost reached this New Zealand spinach planting

Frost was possible until 1 Oct, and no night in that time was colder than 6.6 °C. The New Zealand spinach planting went in on 29 Sep, 31 days after the usual last frost (29 Aug).

This New Zealand spinach planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
6.6 °C
4.6 °C above the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
3 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 1 Oct
Usual last frost
29 Aug
planted 31 days after 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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New Zealand Spinach

Tetragonia tetragonioides

  • 14 plantings
  • 6 harvests
  • A perennial
  • First harvest about 84 days after planting
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