Chard planting

grown by trishf42 in Raised Veg garden 1 · Woomelang, Victoria, Australia

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Done

Planted 2025-05-25

Harvest started 2025-08-30

Finished 2026-10-23

(One emoji = 1 week)

Harvest months

Spring

Summer

Autumn

Winter

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

over 1 year ago 2025-05-25

Progress

Done 516 days

Quantity

2 seedlings

Grown in

semi-shade

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Seedling

Weather in Woomelang, Victoria New

Daily high and low

Too hot and too cold for chard so farFrom Oct 23 to Oct 23, 183 of 366 days had a high inside the best range of 15–25°C. The highs were below the best range on 54 days and above the best range on 129 days. The weather was too hot on 23 days (highs above 35°C) and too cold on 46 days (lows below 5°C).

2 °C frost lineGrows at 5–35°Grows best 15–25°

Daily rainfall

Rain: 495 mm
Hottest day: 46.5°C
Coldest night: 0.8°C
Soil temperature: 17.0°C
Days in its best range: 183 of 366
Days: 366

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.

Notes

These was sourced from Bunnings, in one of their mixed pots marked down, looking very sad. They're now strong and ready for picking (except the older one in Veg Garden 2 is still going, so I'm eating that first!).

Photos

No photos yet.

Observations

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

2025-05-25 Day 0

Planted

Frost

Experimental · new and might be flaky

Frost may have reached this chard planting

3 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was 0.8 °C.

This chard planting against the frost season

Frost danger

14 Jun – 25 Aug

14 Jun →

This planting

Finished 23 Oct

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Usual frost danger
Possible: as early or late as it has come
Planting, finished

Coldest night

0.8 °C

1.2 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line

Frost danger it grew through

105 days

from planting to the latest it has come, 11 Sep

Usual last frost

25 Aug

has come as late as 11 Sep

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)