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Cucumber planting

grown by shiny in The Deck · Wellington, New zealand

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Done

Planted 2019-09-29

First harvest expected 2020-01-25

Finished 2020-02-08

(One emoji = 1 week)

Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

about 7 years ago 2019-09-29

Progress

Done 132 days

Quantity

unknown seeds

Grown in

sun

Rating

not rated

Parent Seed

Grown from

Seed Your cucumber packet

Weather in Wellington, New zealand New

Daily high and low
Too cold for cucumber so farFrom Sep 29 to Feb 08, 25 of 133 days had a high inside the best range of 18–32°C. The highs were below the best range on 108 days. The weather was too cold on 12 days (lows below 6°C).
2 °C frost lineGrows at 6–38°Grows best 18–32°
Daily rainfall
Rain
329 mm
Hottest day
20.5°C
Coldest night
2.7°C
Soil temperature
14.8°C
Days in its best range
25 of 133
Days
133

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.

Photos

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IMG_20191208_195232
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IMG_20191130_102005
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IMG_20191027_135520
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IMG_20190929_175546
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Observations

Nothing noticed yet. Note when it flowers, fruits, wilts or falls ill.

  1. Day 0
    Planted

No frost reached this cucumber planting

Frost was possible until 1 Oct, and no night in that time was colder than 5.4 °C. The cucumber planting went in on 29 Sep, 31 days after the usual last frost (29 Aug).

This cucumber planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
5.4 °C
3.4 °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)

Harvests

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Seeds saved

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Jobs

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Crop

Photo of cucumber

Cucumber

Cucumis sativus

  • 99 plantings
  • 58 harvests
  • An annual, living about 131 days
  • First harvest about 83 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 133 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other cucumber plantings at the same latitude.