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Capsicum (also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers) 22 Dec, anon (Australia - temperate climate): Depends whether you are using worm leachate or worm casting as fertiliser. I don't believe they have much NPK in them especially the leachate and I think you would have to use a lot to grow things. Although it says you can grow caps in summer I think it is far too hot to do so. Better a crop in autumn and early spring.
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Snow Peas (also Sugar Peas, Mangetout, Chinese Peas) 20 Dec, Maf (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Hi, I’m in Sydney and it’s really hot here at the moment, and it’s expected to get 40+ degrees most of January. Do you have any advice for keeping my snow pea plants alive? My concerns include scorched leaves, wilting, drought. Also, I use sugar cane mulch to cover to soil. Do you suggest something else or is sugar cane mulch alright. Please reply soon. Thanks.
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Snow Peas (also Sugar Peas, Mangetout, Chinese Peas) 21 Dec, Liz at Gardenate (New Zealand - temperate climate): Snow peas grow best in cooler weather. See here www.gardenate.com/plant/Snow Peas?zone=2
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Capsicum (also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers) 20 Dec, Elie (Australia - temperate climate): Hey guys, My capsicum plant is giving me a lot og capsicum but they are small and changing colors while they are still small... any advise on what might be the issue
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Capsicum (also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers) 22 Dec, anon (Australia - temperate climate): Probably not enough fertiliser and also I feel it is too hot this time of year to grow caps.
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Cape Gooseberry (also Golden Berry, Inca Berry ) 20 Dec, Eliud Mungai (South Africa - Dry summer sub-tropical climate): I am from Kenya in East Africa and I have a small garden planted with golden berries.the plants are about 1.5 metres high. Their leaves have developed white sports underneath and are falling off. What could be the problem? And what's the soluton to this problem?
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Cape Gooseberry (also Golden Berry, Inca Berry ) 22 Dec, Anon (Australia - temperate climate): Check with a local agricultural department or a nursery.
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Cucumber 18 Dec, Natalie (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate): First time planting and i put tomato next to it. What can i expect?
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Cucumber 19 Dec, Anon (New Zealand - temperate climate): I have just read on several websites that tomatoes and cucumbers are compatible. Don't grow near potatoes. I recently had tomatoes in one bed and cues in the next bed, beds 1.2m apart, beds 4.8m L x 2.5m W. Cues need space to spread out so don't plant close to other crops. Also consider if the tall plants will shade out the lower growing crop.
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Cucumber 18 Dec, Liz (New Zealand - temperate climate): In my experience, the tomatoes grow well but the cucumbers struggle .
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Cucumber 19 Dec, Anon (New Zealand - temperate climate): Tomatoes have a deep and wide root zone and would probably pinch most of the water and nutrients in the soil. Tomatoes need a lot of water and fert, cues far less. That is why I never recommend planting things too close to each other, give them the required area they need.
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Garlic 17 Dec, Brian Gavaghan OAM (Australia - temperate climate): With our diverse weather, what watering should we do?And Oblige Brian
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Garlic 18 Dec, Another gardener (Australia - sub-tropical climate): It is a bit of trial and error. Have good draining soil. Little plants need little waterings more often, daily, big plants a lot more water less often, 2-3 times per week. General rule dig down into the soil 50-70mm to see how moist the soil is. You will quickly learn that say a crop of lettuce might need 60 sec of watering. Whereas some mature tomatoes plants need 2-3 minutes.
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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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