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Garlic 03 Feb, anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Contact the agricultural department in your state.
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Pumpkin 01 Feb, paul polglase (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I have planted pumpkin seeds from last years plants every little bit of space I can find in my yard this summer, plants are coming up everywhere and noticed the first pumpkins growing and looking very healthy. I was wondering if I can put a illtle bit of chicken manure around each plants base, as I think it,s the best thing to add to the garden, but away from the stems to give them areal kick in the guts?
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Pumpkin 03 Feb, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate): You should have done this in preparing the soil before planting the seeds. You need composted manure. Fresh manure won't do much for weeks until it is composted. Your plants will tell you how they are going. Good strong green looking plants don't need a good kick in the guts. Pale yellow weak plants do not have enough fertiliser.
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Mint (also Garden mint) 01 Feb, Denise (New Zealand - temperate climate): Can I plant mint in January. Just decided I want to plant some
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Mint (also Garden mint) 03 Feb, anon (New Zealand - temperate climate): Look up mint for your climate zone and check the planting calendar guide.
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Rockmelon (also Canteloupe) 31 Jan, John Davis (Australia - temperate climate): What is the best method to test ripeness of a rocky. Cheers
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Rockmelon (also Canteloupe) 03 Feb, Another gardener (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Old varieties use to start turning yellow and they came away from the vine easily. The new varieties don't. They will probably turn a bit of a different colour but if you press around the butt end of the melon it will go inwards like a sponge. Release it and it will come back out. Another clue is to keep a record of when you plant and be guided by the time from planting to maturity or about 45 days after the melon has grown to full size.
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Rockmelon (also Canteloupe) 02 Feb, Frank (Australia - temperate climate): I've never had them in the garden, I've just chosen some seeds in a few weeks back and I'm now getting melons, probably a bit late but, see what happens When I test them in the shop, I look for one that is an orange to yellow colour and tap it gently if it (sounds hollow it is ripe)
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Rockmelon (also Canteloupe) 04 Feb, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate): There are many different kinds of melons in the world but the ones we call rock melons in Qld use to grow green and turn yellow when ripening. The new varieties the commercial growers grow are green and they stay green. They are grown to suit the supermarkets, size, transportability and shelf life. Very hard when to know when to pick them. A grower told me 85 days after planting he picks, that is in the spring. If you look on the web for melons you will find a site with 25 different kinds.
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Luffa (also Loofah, plant sponge) 30 Jan, (USA - Zone 9b climate): What does plant undercover mean. Inside with a plastic lid?
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Luffa (also Loofah, plant sponge) 30 Jan, Liz at Gardenate (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate): For Gardenate : Young seedlings can be affected by sudden changes of temperature. To prevent this seedtrays are usually kept under cover for a few weeks. Any area which mantains even, frost-free, temperatures 24 hours will do. e.g. Unheated greenhouses, a covered area close to the house, or small frames covered with frostcloth or with a piece of fabric like old bed sheets. If possible put the trays above ground level. Too much strong sunlight can do as much damage as cold nights to seedlings.
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Capsicum (also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers) 29 Jan, Fran Scott (Australia - temperate climate): Hi, Our capsicum plants are loaded with fruit and are flowering profusely. To increase the size of the fruit do we thin the fruit or just let them keep growing. Thank you any advice will be appreciated.
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Capsicum (also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers) 30 Jan, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I would suggest you stake and support the plants. You probably could do both, leave all flowers on some and trim others. Good watering and fertilising will produce good size fruit.
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Capsicum (also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers) 27 Jan, Mark Andersen (Canada - Zone 3a Temperate Short Summer climate): I live in Calgary, AB and was wondering when I should start my hot pepper plants indoors ... Thanks.
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Capsicum (also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers) 29 Oct, Anonymous (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Go to your climate zone and check it in the planting calendar guide. S = plant seeds undercover in trays.
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Chilli peppers (also Hot peppers) 27 Jan, Sekete Moshoeshoe (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate): Which areas are best fit for growing jalapeno in South Africa?
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Chilli peppers (also Hot peppers) 03 Feb, Anon (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate): Look up the climate zones to see if it grows in your climate zone. www.gardenate.com/zones/#zone-SA
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Beans - climbing (also Pole beans, Runner beans, Scarlet Runners) 27 Jan, Al Rankin (New Zealand - temperate climate): Hi, I planted seeds in December, but although the plant continues to grow, to date, I have not had any flowers? I have previously grown them in the same vicinity very successfully. Any ideas will be gratefully accepted. Thanks
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Beans - climbing (also Pole beans, Runner beans, Scarlet Runners) 29 Jan, Anon (New Zealand - temperate climate): If the soil is very rich they would probably produce a lot of growth before flowering. I had climbing beans in a new rich garden bed and they grew to about 1.2-1.5m before flowering. Plants would have gone to 3m if the trellis went that high.
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Beans - climbing (also Pole beans, Runner beans, Scarlet Runners) 31 Jan, Al Rankin (New Zealand - temperate climate): Thanks for your reply. It gives me some confidence in the plants!!! Cheers Al
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Beans - climbing (also Pole beans, Runner beans, Scarlet Runners) 03 Feb, Al Rankin (New Zealand - temperate climate): Great News. I was out this evening watering the Vegies. And what did I find, a number of Red Flowers on my Beans! Thanks for your support!
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Coriander (also Cilantro, Chinese parsley) 26 Jan, Adam (Australia - temperate climate): -- sounds a very good idea, but I don't' have huge garden so basically I know what I am growing. I just grow what I like to eat. ( I wish if I can grow some chicken and meat but yah doesn't work this way) . well, they are very big parsley seed. they look like parsley seeds but they are probably 3 times as big. I will sow them next week and see in a few months what are they if they ever grow. ---------------
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Coriander (also Cilantro, Chinese parsley) 27 Jan, Another gardener (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Gardening throws up many different things at us. The thing is to think about it from a different angle. All you can do is what you say, try planting them. I just tried planting seeds from a hybrid corn variety, they say they might not throw true to type. I had bicolour corn and yes I grew yellow corn, whitish corn and the yellow and white mix and I don't think it tasted as good as the hybrid. So I won't do that again. All about trying and learning.
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Choko/Chayote (also Chayote squash, christophene, chouchou, mirliton) 26 Jan, Maureen Po (Australia - temperate climate): I am having the same problem Growing well all new leaves are curling inwards. I have treated for mites but I haven’t seen anything on the leaves. Anyone have any advise?
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Choko/Chayote (also Chayote squash, christophene, chouchou, mirliton) 27 Jan, (Australia - temperate climate): You could have a virus. Is the plant stunted?
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Mint (also Garden mint) 25 Jan, Michael Daly (New Zealand - cool/mountain climate): I cut back my mint last year it was a massive crop now it has not come away as good only have small amounts it is in same soil and grows in a big wooden square container I added cow dung in soil this year I live in Timaru
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Mint (also Garden mint) 27 Jan, Anon (New Zealand - temperate climate): You may have hacked it back too hard. Freshish cow dung won't do anything at first, it needs to decompose first and it is not rich in fertiliser. Don't over fertilise any crop it will only produce massive growth.
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Pumpkin 25 Jan, Michael Daly (New Zealand - cool/mountain climate): I have plenty of runners on my pumpkins when can you start cutting these off They are greys and green colours. Why are you not supposed to grow near potatoes.
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Pumpkin 27 Jan, anon (New Zealand - temperate climate): You don't cut the runners (vine) off, how do you expect to grow any pumpkin if you cut them off.
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Pumpkin 23 Mar, Vinny (New Zealand - cool/mountain climate): You do cut the runners but only once one or two pumpkins have started to bud from the flower. If you let the runners lead long they sap the goodness from the growing pumpkins making them small and even die off.
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