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Tips and tricks for growing cold sensitive plants in areas that get frost

Details We get a number of frosts each winter but generally not lower than -5 Celsius. This poses a challenge for growing certain plants, but with the right techniques, some clever designing and careful placement of sensitive plants it's amazing what's possible.

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Swales and ducks for a wetter future

Climate change predicts a wetter future with more extreme rainfall events for much of New Zealand.

Trapping water in the landscape is a valuable technique for buffering rainfall to later irrigate downhill crops and trees.

August 13, 2012

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Regional Climate Statistics for New Zealand

This excel file has multiple worksheets with numeric values and charts of sunshine hours, rainfall, monthly frost count and temperature for several South Island locations, including:

Westport
Nelson
Blenheim
Kaikoura
Christchurch

Data sourced from NIWA (http://www.niwascience.co.nz/edu/resources/climate).

December 20, 2008

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NIWA climate database

The climate database holds data from about 6500 climate stations which have been operating for various periods since the earliest observations were made in the year 1850. The database continues to receive data from over 600 stations that are currently operating.

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Rainfall table for year and month

Visualising yearly rainfall distribution

This chart shows annual rainfall by month for the years 1990 - 2014 (and partial 2015). While there is a definite tenancy for rain to occur in June and July there is also obvious bumps in October, March and April. Wider areas of colour represent times of high rainfall while narrow regions are dryer.
It becomes clear that rainfall can occur at any time throughout the year and that dry years follow periods high rainfall. With this in mind it makes a lot of sense to be approaching water catchment and management with a multi year view of charging up soil moisture during wet times to carry us through periods of below average rainfall.

Data obtained from NIWA Ferniherst dataset

September 20, 2015

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