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Cucumber 16 Dec, Barabara (Australia - temperate climate): Why do my cucumbers die and drop off when they are about 1 cm long please? They are neither under nor over watered. I dug cow manure into the bed 6 weeks before planting and have not fertilised further. The plants are very healthy and have many flowers and baby cucumbers on them.
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Cucumber 17 Dec, anon (Australia - cool/mountain climate): You need bees to pollinate the female flowers, looks like you don't have any in your area. You can do it by hand, google it. Try planting some bee attracting flowers/shrubs in your yard to bring the bees to your place next time. From my experience only a small % of female flowers end up pollinated and grow into full size fruit.
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Cucumber 19 Dec, Barbara (Australia - temperate climate): Thank you. I do have plenty of bees. It is my understanding that if the cucumbers have formed then the pollination has occurred. Am I wrong? I do have plenty of 1 cm cucumbers on the bushes.
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Cucumber 20 Dec, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate): If you look at the flowers, the male has no little cue behind the actual flower, whereas the female has the little cue then the flower in the front. I had 8 apple cues in recently and they produced hundreds of flowers if not thousands. Only picked about 100 cues from it all together. If you can check the cues about 7-10 am to see if the bees are working. I read it takes about 10-12 visits by bees to pollinate a pumpkin flower. Cues could be similar. Hope you have some cues growing by now.
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Cape Gooseberry (also Golden Berry, Inca Berry ) 15 Dec, Margaret (Australia - cool/mountain climate): I live in Canberra, australia. Is it too late to put in some seed?
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Cape Gooseberry (also Golden Berry, Inca Berry ) 17 Dec, anon (Australia - cool/mountain climate): A general guide is to plant Sept to Nov . so put some seed in as soon as possible. Weather changes year to year, and I'm not talking climate change. We are experiencing a much later start to spring summer rains due to the Indian ocean dipole and the monsoon trough has not yet moved down from India into the north of Australia.
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Watermelon 15 Dec, Puiti (New Zealand - temperate climate): Can I grow watermelon in Te Kuiti?
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Watermelon 17 Dec, Liz (New Zealand - temperate climate): You should be able to grow watermelon, if you start them early in pots or trays undercover. Have a look here www.gardenate.com/plant/Watermelon
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Kale (also Borecole) 15 Dec, Sandy (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I am new at growing veggies. What are other veggies compatible to plant with?
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Kale (also Borecole) 17 Dec, Liz (New Zealand - temperate climate): If you know which vegetable you want to grow, find its information via the Vegetables and Herbs tab. Make sure the top scroll bar is set to your climate zone and read the information below. Most plants have Compatible or Avoid lists.
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Rhubarb 14 Dec, Brian Cossill (New Zealand - temperate climate): ruhbarb doesn't need any thing done to your plant in NZ other than water fortnightly cheers Brian
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Burdock (also Gobo (Japanese Burdock)) 13 Dec, Suzanne (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate): Koanga sell burdock seeds
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Capsicum (also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers) 10 Dec, Jenny Cathcart (New Zealand - temperate climate): Should laterals be picked off capsicums? Thank you.
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Rockmelon (also Canteloupe) 10 Dec, Steven Larkin (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Hi , My Edens Gem melons have a few weeks more growing until harvest. Most of the leaves have yellowed and died. Will they still be ok to be harvested. Thanks
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Rockmelon (also Canteloupe) 17 Dec, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate): This happens to some crops as they approach harvest time, maybe they needed more watering in this hot weather. I'm in the same boat with rock melons, my problem is do some of the new commercial melons slip from the vine when ripening. Mine are still green and I feel they will not be ripe until around Xmas day. A few of my melons were attacked by Qld fruit fly I think. I put shade cloth over my melons this morning to keep the flies off. If you have plenty of melons you could try one.
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Rhubarb 09 Dec, Brian Cossill (New Zealand - temperate climate): is there any sense in using a rhubarb forcer to increase the length of the stalks during the growing season in NZ cheers Brian
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Rhubarb 12 Dec, Anon (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate): Read up about what a forcer does on the net.
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Rhubarb 10 Dec, Anon (New Zealand - temperate climate): I suggest you google rhubarb forcer and read what it does.
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Cowpeas (also Black eye peas, Southern peas) 09 Dec, Donna Georgiou (Australia - temperate climate): I would like to grow black eye beans (cowpeas) for family use as we like them fresh as well as dry , would I be able to purchase seeds . [Gardenate: we don't sell any seeds or plants]
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Cowpeas (also Black eye peas, Southern peas) 12 Dec, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Try the internet.
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Tomato 08 Dec, Julie (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate): something is eating my tomatoes as soon as they get a bit if pink on them. Any advice or assistance. We have put up netting to stop the birds but still happening
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Tomato 12 Dec, Anon (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate): Check the plant day and night for grubs.
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Tomato 10 Dec, Anon (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate): Look under the leaves etc and see if you can find grubs etc.
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Capsicum (also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers) 07 Dec, Jo (Australia - temperate climate): I’ve noticed my capsicum is very small this year same as last year. Has been in for about 6 wks and is only about 6-7 inches tall. Been regularly watered and fertilised?
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Capsicum (also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers) 10 Dec, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Check the NPK of the fertiliser - seasol and similar things are not fertilisers. You would have to consider what the soil was like before you planted. Did you have another crop in before planting the caps. It would have used most of the nutrients up. What is the ph of the soil, the soil temp etc. Where I live we are having temps of 3+ degree above average and no rain. Too hot to grow most things I feel.
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Capsicum (also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers) 05 Dec, Graeme Mills (Australia - temperate climate): I have one plant with lots of flowers but no capsicums in sight. This is the first time I have struck this as I've grown the very successfully in the past. I have a large net enclosing all of my vegie plants to keep the butterflies and birds away. They get plenty of water and fertilised with seasol about once a fortnight
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Capsicum (also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers) 06 Dec, anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Seasol is not a fertiliser. Do some research on fertilisers. I pulled some capsicums out today, plenty of flowers lately, little fruit developing, not many growing to full size, a lot being burnt by the sun. It's holiday time for the garden and myself.
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Borage (also Burrage, Bugloss) 04 Dec, Janet (New Zealand - cool/mountain climate): What can I plant around borage so I won’t get in contact with the prickly plant? Chillies? Pepper? Lemon grass? Area is sunny but windy.
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Borage (also Burrage, Bugloss) 05 Dec, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I have grown borage the last two years, the plants have been huge, 1.2m high and 1.8-2.0m diameter. I suggest you grow them where you are not going to walk around much.
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Silverbeet (also Swiss Chard or Mangold) 04 Dec, Don Leslie (Australia - temperate climate): My silverbeet has gone to seed very young they are only six weeks old
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