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Shallots (also Eschalots) 14 Sep, Greg O'Brien (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Hi Anyone! We’re keen to try growing golden shallots and need to find a contact where we can buy a reasonably large amount of seed cloves. Anybody able to help?
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Shallots (also Eschalots) 16 Sep, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Do you mean the little gold/brown shallot/onion. I grow what I call shallots - the cluster of bulbs - purple/brown colour when fully grown. You let the shallot fully grow and seed and then harvest the cluster of bulbs. I usually save some from one year for the next year. I had a lot this year and have a few left now. Usually by now they have dried out to nothing or when some humidity about they start shooting. I doubt I have enough for you but what I have left could be planted - have to be real soon though. I live Coral Cove - via Bundy.
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Yacon (also Sunroot) 14 Sep, Glenys (New Zealand - temperate climate)
I live in Katikati, BOP. Anyone know where I can get yakon plants? Thanks
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Yacon (also Sunroot) 16 Sep, Anon (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate)
Google it.
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Rhubarb 14 Sep, Yvonne Rule (New Zealand - cool/mountain climate)
Do you know where nz can you buy terracotta rhubarb forcers Thanks Yvonne
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Rhubarb 16 Sep, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Try googling it.
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Cucumber 14 Sep, Kirsty (New Zealand - temperate climate)
What cucumbers are suitable for growing in hanging baskets?
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Cucumber 17 Sep, Anon (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate)
A plant needs a preferred amount of soil (nutrient) to grow a reasonably decent crop. Without knowing what size pot you have I always question whether people use a big enough pot for what they want to grow. For myself I would not try to grow cucumbers in a pot smaller than 500-600mm diameter and 300mm deep.
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Cucumber 16 Sep, Anon (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate)
What is the difference between growing in hanging basket and on trellis. Probably grow any kind. Try apple cucumbers - a lot more taste.
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Parsnip 14 Sep, Rob Taylor (Australia - temperate climate)
I have parsnips growing at Hervey Bay, they are growing well, but they appear to be all top. I have cut the top foliage back. Will this affect the root. best regards Rob
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Parsnip 16 Sep, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Probably too much fertiliser especially N. More a crop to grow autumn into winter than in spring.
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Tomato 14 Sep, Allan Clarke (Australia - temperate climate)
If you freeze tomatoes, then thaw them out, they go all soggy, I believe.
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Onion 14 Sep, petre (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Hi, Can I buy Onion sets in Australia ?. I live in Canungra Queensland. Thanks, Peter.
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Onion 20 Jul, Peter Turner (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Don't buy sets to plant onions. Onions are a biennial crop meaning they flower and set seed in the second year. Onion sets are cold hardened to mimic over-wintering they will think they are in the second year and will go to flower and set seed. This comes at the expense of the bulb getting large.
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Onion 16 Sep, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
What do you mean by sets?. I don't grow onions but I would think most people grow from seeds or seedlings.
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Tomatillo 13 Sep, Julie Elliott (Australia - temperate climate)
Bought one tomatillo at the green grocer near me. It was the 1st time I'd seen them selling tomatillo. I left it in the fruit bowl a few weeks and watched it shrivel up. Then I squished it open and left it another week or more to dry out and tonight I pricked out the seeds. Tomorrow I'll plant some seeds in a seed punnet and leave it on my north facing kitchen window sill to germinate. I'll do a punnet each week. The leftover seeds I'll keep for next year. Hopefully some will sprout. I travelled with a Mexican friend (from Mexico City) many years back and saw how she (and her maid) cooked them. I especially loved "drowned eggs". And I saw tomatillos growing wild in southern Mexico near the Guatemalan boarder. My memory is that it was a fairly lightly foliaged shrub like plant. Wish me luck.
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Amaranth (also Love-lies-bleeding) 13 Sep, Annieta (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate)
For the people who asked where you can get Amaranth seeds I bought from Margaret Roberts Herbal Centre
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Potato 12 Sep, Stephanie (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
I have potatoes growing in last years patch, from some left behind and unharvested. They look healthy, will they give a reasonable crop or should I pull them and put new seed potatoes in?
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Potato 13 Sep, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Preferable to plant something different each year in the same bed. Let some grow and plant some new ones and compare what they produce. Gardening is about trying things.
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Cape Gooseberry (also Golden Berry, Inca Berry ) 10 Sep, Jerry Michael Eisenband (USA - Zone 10a climate)
Can I grow them in West Palm Beach, FL?
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Cucumber 07 Sep, maxine (New Zealand - temperate climate)
Can Cucumbers be grown in large garden pots?
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Cucumber 09 Sep, Anon (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate)
Yes - have good fertile soil to start with and make sure you water them regularly.
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Watermelon 07 Sep, Midda (South Africa - Dry summer sub-tropical climate)
Afternoon, please i need advice about the watermelon, how to produce the sweetest watermelon. At what time of the year. Thank you
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Watermelon 13 Nov, anon (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate)
Read the information here about growing them. Asking how to produce the sweetest WM is an impossible question. It is like asking which is the sweetest in a bin of 50 of them.
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Beans - climbing (also Pole beans, Runner beans, Scarlet Runners) 07 Sep, Sailesh Gajurel (New Zealand - temperate climate)
As well as i am planning to grow snake beans on my garden this year sowing seeds on what interval shall i do seedling for continuous supply of beans throught the season
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Beans - climbing (also Pole beans, Runner beans, Scarlet Runners) 09 Sep, Anon (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate)
Water the garden the day before you are going to plant the seeds. Put the seeds in a glass of water the night before you are going to plant them. Plant the seeds the next day and give a light watering. DO NOT water again for 4 days. Then give a light watering each second day - depending on your soil type.
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Beans - climbing (also Pole beans, Runner beans, Scarlet Runners) 09 Sep, Anon (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate)
About each 4-5 weeks.
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Strawberry Plants 06 Sep, Chris sheppard (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
I live in Brisbane and have mine covered with shade cloth, should I keep watering the plants through non fruiting months, don't want to kill them .
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Strawberry Plants 09 Sep, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Strawberries are shallow rooted so keep the water up to them. Check the soil to see if it is dry or wet. A good watering 3 times a week. Later in the year they will send out new runners.
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Cape Gooseberry (also Golden Berry, Inca Berry ) 06 Sep, promila relan (Canada - Zone 4b Temperate Warm Summer climate)
I had written before but did not get a response. My cape berry plant were started from seed of a gooseberry bought in Farmers's market. They spent winter inside. Planted in early flowers and are forming fruit. Winter is approaching fast. Now my concern is how to protect them well so that these plants survive . Are there any special instructions.. I did feed it with 10-10-10. Now worried about winter. Please help.Thanks
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