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Luffa (also Loofah, plant sponge) 09 Feb, Lura (USA - Zone 8a climate): check your electric company you can find crates free the ones from the electric company have frames on top perfect for cold frame lid, most have plastic wrapped around them and a pallet bottom. They are a little tall for a cold frame but there are only 4 studs ( in corners) and a few thin cross boards to stabilize the container. We remove the nice frames from the tops, cut the studs to the right height, use the cross boards to frame the bottom. Two boxes will make one 4 x 4 cold frame. every bit free except screws or nails to reassemble.
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Luffa (also Loofah, plant sponge) 13 Aug, Ilonka (USA - Zone 7b climate): Can you post a picture of those crates? I searched online for them but can’t find any. Thank you in advance ! (Or give a link to a picture - Editor)
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Borage (also Burrage, Bugloss) 02 Feb, Isabel (Australia - temperate climate): Hi, I come from Spain, in the north basque area, though I live in Perth. I love borage! We eat it as a vegetable, we discard the leaves, clean the stems a bit and chopped in finger lenght size, we boil with potato. Once cooked we add either raw olive oil, after ridding of some of the boiling liquid, or we fry a bit of garlic and add it to the borage together with the oil. Yum!!
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Borage (also Burrage, Bugloss) 25 Mar, Jamie Graham (Australia - temperate climate): Thanks Isabel. I have borage all around my garden, it is a beautiful plant and the bees love it but I have never quite known what to do with it. Now I do.
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Borage (also Burrage, Bugloss) 13 Aug, Tina Siale (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Hi Jaime, my kids enjoy eating the flowers and we dig the excess plants into the soil as a green manure as borage comes from the same family as comfrey.
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Borage (also Burrage, Bugloss) 22 Mar, Nagore (Australia - temperate climate): Hola Isabel, me llamo Nagore y me gustaría hacer una huerta así que vine a esta web en busca de información pero por lo visto solo tiene unas zonas climáticas especificas y yo vivo en Navarra en un pueblo cerca de Iruña,como por ahora solo estoy recogiendo información me gustaría saber si me podrías decir un poco como empezar o que plantar por estas fechas y así. Gracias Hi Isabel, my name is Nagore and I would like to make a vegetable garden so I came to this website in search of information but apparently it only has specific climatic zones and I live in Navarra in a town near Iruña, as for now I am only collecting information I would like to know if you could tell me a bit how to start or what to plant around this time and so on. Thank you
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Borage (also Burrage, Bugloss) 24 Mar, Chris (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Hola Nagore, You could try the USA zones 9 or 10. 9a is Portland Oregon (Csb: Warm-summer Mediterranean), 10 is Los Angeles (Csa: Hot-summer Mediterranean). They should be fairly close to the Pamplona coastal mediterranean climate.
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Borage (also Burrage, Bugloss) 03 Feb, anonymous (Australia - sub-tropical climate): In 1974-5 I holidayed near Santander and Mundaka for a month at each place, loved it. I grew borage last winter spring. Plants grew 1m high and 2m across. Attracted heaps of bees.
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Garlic 02 Feb, william kerr (Australia - sub-tropical climate): what garlic is best to grow in the gympie region for a commercial crop? where would I get it?
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Garlic 17 Mar, Graham Bower (Australia - temperate climate): For many years I stuck rigidly to old theory of "plant shortest day" and Harvest longest day. Always very successful, but recent years have experimented to early as mid April. Reasonable success with slightly earlier harvest. but quality not quite as good as later planting.... . In Berwick Vic.
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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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