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Asparagus 09 Jan, Bobbie Green (USA - Zone 9b climate): Hi Mike... I'm in zone 9b, as well. I'm wondering if you decided to plant asparagus.... and if you did, how did it work out for you? I just bought crowns and hope to plant this week. I have a spot that is cooler than most of my property. Wish me luck!
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Asparagus 06 Mar, Evan (USA - Zone 9b climate): I put crowns in last summer and cut the canes down in the late fall. I now have first asparagus in March. Should I let them grow and not pick them?. No frost here. 1200 feet up and maybe 4 miles from the ocean in California. Fog at night in May-July but sun during the day. Warm to hot fall.
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Potato 21 Jun, Cheryl Burke (Australia - temperate climate): I live in Clarence Town NSW. TEMPERATE climate but we do get frosts. I have just bought some seed potatoes. Should I plant them now or wait until August? If I wait, do Ineed to put them in the sun to encourage them to shoot?
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Potato 24 Jun, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Put them in your pantry until late August and then plant.
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Choko/Chayote (also Chayote squash, christophene, chouchou, mirliton) 20 Jun, Sue (Australia - temperate climate): Where can i buy chayote from
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Choko/Chayote (also Chayote squash, christophene, chouchou, mirliton) 24 Jun, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Buy a choko from a fruit and veg shop.
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Kohlrabi 20 Jun, Phindile (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate): I want to know where can I buy kohlrabi plant in south africa
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Kohlrabi 06 Nov, Zodwa, Gauteng (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate): Hi Phindile I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes 5 years ago. Yesterday I came across an article about this kohlrabi plant. I also would like to know where to get the seeds of this plant. When I googled earlier I saw that Woolworths sells a bunch of this kohlrabi for R19,99; but like you I prefer to have the seeds so that I could plant it myself in my own garden. Please let me know if you get any positive responses.
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Potato 18 Jun, Nox (South Africa - Semi-arid climate): How do I make my potatoes carry more. I intend planting in September
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Asparagus 18 Jun, Florence (Australia - arid climate): We planted our asparagus in summer and although it is winter now, the ferns are still green. There wasn't any berries in autumn, Do we have to cut off the ferns or just leave them to die out?
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Asparagus 24 Jun, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Don't water them from now until late August and then cut them.
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Ginger 17 Jun, Susan Du Plooy (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate): I want to start growing ginger .... near Bronkhorstspruit Gauteng
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Yacon (also Sunroot) 17 Jun, Liz Goldsworthy (New Zealand - temperate climate): Hi, does anyone know where i can buy Yakon tubers from?
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Yacon (also Sunroot) 03 Aug, Merril Bourne (New Zealand - temperate climate): I live in Auckland & have recently harvested some Yacon & have a few "crowns" / "bulblets" to share.
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Yacon (also Sunroot) 20 Sep, susie barr (New Zealand - cool/mountain climate): How can I get yakon bulbs from you in Auckland as I also live in Auckland Eastern Suberbs ?
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Yacon (also Sunroot) 20 Jun, (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate): Try Yacon New Zealand on Facebook.
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Yacon (also Sunroot) 09 Jul, Jill Carr (New Zealand - temperate climate): Have just dug 2 large bucket fulls larger than usual one @ 900gr & other large, easily peeled in an hour easier than apples, have thousands of "bulblets" to give away.
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Yacon (also Sunroot) 20 Oct, Carine (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate): Hi Jill Would also be interested in some yacon seed/crowns whatever you may still have available, please? Many thanks.
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Yacon (also Sunroot) 08 Oct, Rhys (New Zealand - temperate climate): Hi Jill Any chance you have a few bulblets still available. Thanks.
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Yacon (also Sunroot) 20 Sep, susie barr (New Zealand - cool/mountain climate): Please can I have some bulbs
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Yacon (also Sunroot) 28 Jul, Jill (New Zealand - temperate climate): Love to collect some bulblets if you have any left.
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Zucchini (also Courgette/Marrow, Summer squash) 17 Jun, joe graham (Australia - temperate climate): as with my egg plant my zucchinis are still producing most times 3 from each plant every 3 days'they are the blackjack variety. the seed was planted first week of December. whats happening is climate change causing this to happen. its middle of June temperate climate is it normal. thanks for any advice
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Eggplant (also Aubergine) 17 Jun, joe graham (Australia - temperate climate): just a question my egg plant is still producing fruit. i live an hour north of Sydney. its the middle of June.its flowering like crazy and has about 10 on it ranging in size from tennis ball size to large grape fruit size.we are having mild sunny days and very cool nights down to 6deg is this normal or is climate change a factor in why its doing this. thanks for any reply or advice.
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Eggplant (also Aubergine) 18 Jun, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Climate is 30 years of weather for a particular area. Climate does not change from year to year. Year to year is variable temperature change. Both your plants eggplant and zucchini are warm/hot weather crops so if you are still having warm days then they would still produce as long as they have sufficient nutrient.
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Eggplant (also Aubergine) 28 Jun, joe graham (Australia - temperate climate): Thanks for your reply. I have learned something new today
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Rosella (also Queensland Jam Plant, Roselle) 16 Jun, Judy Budgen (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Full grown rosella bushes looking very healthy, and then suddenly wilting and dying for no visable reason. They were just starting to flower and some very starting to set fruit. Any help would be appreciated.
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Broccoli 14 Jun, Patricia Foster (USA - Zone 9b climate): Here in central Florida, we grew enormous broccoli plants but they never produced anything, even after six months growing. We put the seedlings in the ground in October in a marl soil that retains moisture and also used plenty of compost and some 10-10-10. Any ideas what went wrong or what we should do to amend the soil?
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Broccoli 24 Jul, colleen (USA - Zone 10b climate): This has happened to me a couple of times in the South too, with various cole crops. Have you grown this variety of broccoli in this location and at the same time of year before, with success? The reason I ask is, some brassicas require vernalization (a sufficient number of cold temperatures before they flower/head) and some types may be photoperiod sensitive (waiting for days to get short enough/long enough to trigger flowering/heading). Did you have an especially warm winter? Definitely make sure you're growing a variety that's best suited to your latitude, and are growing it at the suggested time of year. I hope you at least got to eat your plants! The leaves are a delicious consolation prize. Also! Important tip: always leave broccoli roots in the ground when you harvest the plants. Decaying broccoli roots are toxic to verticillium dahliae, a stubborn soilborne fungus. Broccoli is worth growing for that reason alone!
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Broccoli 26 Nov, anon (USA - Zone 9b climate): - It sounds as though you have over fertilised them with far too much NITROGEN. N produces growth - leaves. Also grow them into the cooler winter months. DO NOT grow them into the hot summer months.
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Broccoli 11 Oct, Patty Kipps (USA - Zone 7a climate): Does it get cold enough for long enough where you are? Broccoli needs cool weather.
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