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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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Silverbeet (also Swiss Chard or Mangold) 07 Dec, anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate): A plants purpose is to grow and set seed so that it can reproduce it's self in the future. If there is a lack of nutrient (fertiliser) and or water then it won't grow much and will go to seed. A local farmer has just redesigned his farm (moved soil and laser levelled etc). He planted a cover crop to put some fibre back into the soil. He is watering the hell out of it but it just won't grow much - reason - there is no nutrient in the soil.
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Silverbeet (also Swiss Chard or Mangold) 05 Dec, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Probably one or both of two reasons. They lacked fertiliser/watering or the season, coming into hot summer weather. More a cool weather crop I think.
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Rhubarb 03 Dec, Spike Petersen (Australia - temperate climate): I have been wondering if a raised garden bed would be ok to grow rhubarb as a horticulturist this is one plant that has been a difficult one to grow as well as strawberries nothing much else is a problem. Its been said that I can get a broom handles to grow yet rhubarb eludes me. Thanks in advance
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Rhubarb 14 Dec, Craig chapman (Australia - temperate climate): Gday spike yes this is my first year growing rhubarb in raised garden beds, my harvest is unbelievable,our temperature where I am gets very hot 46 is not uncommon, however this year I covered my entire veg I patch with fruit fly netting (we get the here) the netting is only 2-3% shade so on the roof I staggered 70% shade cloth that is 1.8 wide the missed 1.8 and so on so every thing gets sun but not all the time, my beds consisted Of we’ll rotten cow manure with a sandy top about 4-5 inches then sugar cane mulch to keep moisture in, hope this helps..
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Strawberry Plants 04 Dec, anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I have tried to grow strawberries the last two years. Come to the conclusion that it is not worth all the effort. Not enough quality and quantity of strawberries. I had 18 plants. I put in weed mat ground cover and a drip irrigation system.
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Rhubarb 04 Dec, anon (Australia - temperate climate): I have never grown it although my mother grew it in the 1960's. I think it grew a bit wild. Read all the notes here about climate to grow in, soil type, good draining soil, not heavy wet soil. Research on the net
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Yam/Oca (also Oka) 02 Dec, MaryJane (Australia - temperate climate): I'd love to grow yams . I never ever see them here in NSW or Qld. In nZ they have the red orange and yellow. I'd be happy for any!!
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Yam/Oca (also Oka) 02 Dec, anon (Australia - temperate climate): Look up some seed selling websites to find some to buy. The guide here says to plant by Nov so you need to hurry.
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Tomato 01 Dec, Tom (Australia - temperate climate): What is the best fertilizer for tomatoes?
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Tomato 16 Dec, Barbara (Australia - temperate climate): My tomato bushes are great and promise a bumper crop again this year. As my mother before me, I dig cow manure (from the shop) into the bed six weeks before planting the seedlings. My mother added liquid manure to hers as well.
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Tomato 03 Dec, anon (Australia - temperate climate): A general all round fertiliser grows most things.
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Capsicum (also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers) 01 Dec, Dale (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I have a very healthy capsicum plant with many flowers and a half a dozen fruit coming along.Just spotted 3 capsicum with brown softish marks on them.(I picked them and cut the brown out) I almost cried when I saw them.They looked so healthy from a distance. We have had extremely hot conditions exceeding 35 degrees. and no rain.I have been watering them,but the ground around the property is starting to 'crack open'.Maybe the water isn't fully getting to the roots..I don't know.Any advice would be appreciated.Thanks
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Capsicum (also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers) 02 Dec, Another gardener (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I have the same thing happening with my caps. I had a few develop nice and big but now that the weather is so hot the skin is being burnt by the sun. I think with this near extreme hot weather it is near impossible to grow certain crops, caps being one of them. I live near Bundy and we have just had Nov aver max temp of 30.9, 2.5 above average. Today is 35 and the rest of the week is 34-36. These kind of temps are normally the hottest of days in mid summer not the start. You need to be watering a lot and even trying to shade the plants some how. I don't normally grow things this time of the year and I'm quickly winding down my crops - too hot to work.
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Capsicum (also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers) 03 Dec, Jason (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I had the same thing last year (on the coast south of Sydney), particularly getting burned on the west-facing side, from the hot afternoon sun. The UV seemed to be particularly strong last summer. My cucumber vines all got fried before producing any fruit, unlike the year before which had a good crop. Shade cloth might be the way to go
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Capsicum (also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers) 19 Dec, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate): You can buy 30% shade cloth.
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Tomato 29 Nov, Allan Fraser (Australia - temperate climate): my tomatoes are being bored into with some sort of caterpillars also some with black spots any ideas on how cure this organiclly or failing that anything to stop it ???
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Tomato 17 Feb, Elizabeth (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I found the same thing happening a few months ago with our tomatoes (Black Russian and Moneymaker). I found out it is Cotton bollworm: a nocturnal moth which lays it's eggs on the flowers, which then hatch and enter the baby tomatoes when they are tiny. I have my tomatoes string-trained on a 'cage' structure made from sticks/branches, so I used a Vege Net from Green Harvest over the entire structure, pegging and tucking the edges in (placing plastic flower pots over the tops of the sticks/branches, to prevent holes in the net). There was a period of finding spots developing, and caterpillars inside the tomatoes for a few weeks after, however no fresh infestations. I'll be doing the same this year right from the start.
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