Garlic planting

grown by shiny in Sunny old raised bed · Wellington, New Zealand

All of shiny's plantings

PA6B

Planted 2026-06-21

First harvest expected 2027-02-04

Finish expected 2027-02-02

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Harvest months

Spring

Summer

Autumn

Winter

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

5 months ago 2026-06-21

Progress

64% day 145 of 226

Quantity

4 plants

Grown in

not specified

Rating

3 of 5

Short code

PA6B for plant markers and labels

Parent Seed

garlic

Grown from

Seed Your garlic packet

Weather in Wellington, New Zealand New

Daily high and low

Too cold for garlic so farFrom Jun 21 to Nov 08, 1 of 141 days had a high inside the best range of 18–30°C. The highs were below the best range on 140 days. The weather was too cold on 73 days (lows below 7°C).

Expected to grow, though not at the fastest, for garlicGoing by last year's weather, 14 of the 86 days from Nov 09 to Feb 02 should have a high inside the best range of 18–30°C. The highs could be below the best range on 72 days.

Latest, Nov 08: 16.3°C / 11.8°C2 °C frost lineDies at -5 °CGrows at 7–35°Grows best 18–30°

Daily rainfall

Latest, Nov 08: 1.9 mm

The dotted lines and bars are expected weather, last year's data for the same days moved forward a year. They are not observed.

Rain: 405 mm
Hottest day: 18.3°C
Coldest night: 1.1°C
Soil temperature: 10.0°C
Days in its best range: 1 of 141
Days: 141

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 garlic planting

The latest a frost has come in past years is 1 Oct, 43 days ago. The garlic planting went in on 21 Jun, 69 days before the usual last frost (29 Aug). 3 nights so far were at or below 2 °C, the coldest 1.1 °C.

This garlic planting against the frost season

Today, 13 Nov

Frost danger

23 Jun – 29 Aug

23 Jun →

This planting

Planted 21 Jun

Finish expected 2 Feb

Planted 69 days before the usual last frost

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Usual frost danger
Possible: as early or late as it has come
Planting so far
Planting still to come

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, 141 days after this garlic planting finishes

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)