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Tomato 20 Aug, Marie B (Australia - temperate climate): Epsom salt is magnesium sulfate and doesn’t address the lack of calcium. For this coming spring you can buy calcium at Bunnings or your nursery but if you add finely crushed eggshells in your soil and let it degrade over the winter months you will not have to buy calcium again. Boiled eggs water and fish bones buried in soil work wonders against blossom end rot.
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Dill 16 Feb, Emma (New Zealand - cool/mountain climate): Hello, How can I find/buy dill flowering heads?? I live in Dunedin....
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Dill 03 Mar, Russell (New Zealand - temperate climate): I’m in Oamaru and have flowering Dill
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Dill 18 Feb, Mike (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate): You would have to find someone growing it - try nurseries etc
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Rhubarb 15 Feb, TOMMY (South Africa - Dry summer sub-tropical climate): please advise where i can buy rhubarb crowns for planting this year, what is best type for western cape conditions,what quantities would you suggest for home produce market sales in two years time
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Rhubarb 27 Oct, Nadine (South Africa - Dry summer sub-tropical climate): I found rhubarb in Riebeek West nursery and in Wellington nursery next to the Perfect place. I think it was ringard Victoria. If it's sold in local nurseries I believe they'll be fine in our climate. Mine has been growing for a few weeks now, transplanted in a shade net house and still doing good
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Horseradish 15 Feb, Vera (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate): Hi, I would love to plant horseradish in my Waihi garden. Is there anyone in the area who can spare a piece of root? Cheers, Vera
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Ginger 15 Feb, Peter (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I grow ginger successfully in 'foam' boxes from the green grocers. I use a shallow style box with good drainage holes. Use a good potting mix and I mulch the top. I water regularly and liquid fertlize. Ginger doesn’t need full sun all day. Mine don't get the hot afternoon sun. I live north of Brisbane.
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Ginger 18 Feb, Mike (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I do the same to grow some greens - lettuce beetroot spinach -(I'm doing this right now- germinated last week) . I had 3 boxes - heavy when full of soil, so I cut some of the top off. I place some shade cloth on the bottom, then mix up some good soil and compost. Top it off with 25 mm of fine potting mix, plant my seeds and more potting mix to cover the seeds. I place them under a shade cloth cover. I water by using a 6 liter sprayer - the spray doesn't dislodge the seeds. Seeds are planted very thick and when grown you just cut the top off and let it regrow. I use a worm castings fertiliser and when bigger a water fertiliser solution. Can do this also to germinate seeds for seedlings. Bundaberg - sub tropical
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Onion 13 Feb, robert samuel walker (New Zealand - temperate climate): when is the best time to put in red onion in christchurch
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Onion 14 Feb, mike (New Zealand - temperate climate): You have worked out your temperate - looking under onions - it is in the calendar months near the top of the page.
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Horseradish 13 Feb, (New Zealand - temperate climate): Found this site looking for where to put my horseradish and saw someone wanted echinacea. I have some.
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Luffa (also Loofah, plant sponge) 12 Feb, Dawn (USA - Zone 9a climate): How do I know what zone I am in? I am so new to this.
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Luffa (also Loofah, plant sponge) 12 Feb, Liz at Gardenate (New Zealand - temperate climate): Go to the tab 'Climate zones' and scroll down to find your zone. Gardenate zones for USA are based on USDA Hardiness zones. Find your USDA Plant Hardiness Zone by entering your ZIP code at the USDA Plant Hardiness website.
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Cauliflower 12 Feb, Linda (Australia - temperate climate): Hi I was wondering when you say to plant cauliflower in seed trays undercover in February, do you mean in a glass house, or under shade cloth? I live in Taradale, Victoria, which is temperate, but we get little rain and have had some really hot sunny days lately that have fried some of my crops. However, we get frosts here that are not like the surrounding areas, and have had things die overnight from that well before and after winter. I also read that cauliflower doesn't take well to transplanting. So would sowing seed direct in February, under shade cloth be okay? Also, Thanks I love this site and all your information Linda
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Cauliflower 12 Feb, Mike (Australia - temperate climate): Read all the notes here about growing it. Doesn't like frosts - doesn't like hot days, doesn't like really rich soil. Caulies and cabbage take a lot of care to grow to the seedling stage.If growing seeds, need a good controlled environment - temperature and watering. Undercover means out of the sun and heat. You are starting them in hot/warm weather to transplant when the weather is a bit cooler and grow as the weather goes into winter. When you transplant it is best to have soil around the roots if possible, do it late in the afternoon and put some protection over them - shade for a week or so, water morning and night - only need a light watering. Little plants have small root system so need watering more often. Big plants - bigger watering less often. (Under cover also means protected from frosts- Liz)
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Spinach (also English spinach) 10 Feb, Sandy (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate): How successful is English spinach grown in Winter rainfall areas in South Africa . Any advice ? Thank you
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Jerusalem Artichokes (also Sunchoke) 09 Feb, Lyn (New Zealand - temperate climate): My first year JAs are well over 2 meters with no sign of flowers, have I given them too much water or does this mean a huge first crop?
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Jerusalem Artichokes (also Sunchoke) 10 Feb, mike (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate): I think you need to read the notes here. You eat the root in the ground - nothing to do with the flower I feel. Probably too much nitrogen and watering to have 2m plants.
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Jerusalem Artichokes (also Sunchoke) 13 Mar, Lyn (New Zealand - temperate climate): Thanks Mike, yes I know to eat the tubers [luv them, my Father always had them in the vege garden-many years ago] think from your answer I may have watered too much. Was hoping as they had grown so tall that the tubers would be more, but...... I have read somewhere since posting my query, that if one stops them flowering a bigger crop is produced?
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Beetroot (also Beets) 09 Feb, Robyn Williams (Australia - temperate climate): Do beetroot need to be planted direct in the ground where they are to grow or can you transplant easily from seed trays? Thanks.
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Beetroot (also Beets) 10 Feb, mike (Australia - sub-tropical climate): A seed can produce several seedlings. I plant in a tray and then transplant when 50mm high. Best to cover with some shade cloth for a few days to protect from the sun.
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Zucchini (also Courgette/Marrow, Summer squash) 08 Feb, Alana (Australia - cool/mountain climate): Hi, i have big healthy plants buth but the fruit are turning yellow and shrivelling. Ive harvested 6 out of around 20 ive had to throw away. Ived been trying hand pollinating but it seems to make very little difference. Are there any other issues that could be causing this?
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Zucchini (also Courgette/Marrow, Summer squash) 10 Feb, Mike (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Read up about pollination - it could be some disease - I have no idea.
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Strawberry Plants 08 Feb, Bob (Australia - temperate climate): When is right time of year to transplant strawberries we live in Wallaroo sth Australia
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Strawberry Plants 12 Feb, mike (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Plant May June
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Leeks 08 Feb, Charlotte (Australia - cool/mountain climate): I have grown leeks but found that they often have a hard inedible inner stalk when harvested. What have I done wrong?
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Leeks 11 Feb, Oliver (Australia - temperate climate): Have you let them flower? My experience is once they send up that flower stalk.. that is the woody centre stalk. You need to harvest before this happens. Otherwise you just have to slice along the leek and pull this stalk out and use the softer outside bits in a stew or tart. Leek and fetta tarts are awesome:)
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Leeks 10 Feb, Mike (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Could be dryness. Try and have a consistent soil moisture. Check plant and harvest times.
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Pumpkin 08 Feb, eden ande (Australia - sub-tropical climate): i live in Eritrea and work on national agricultural research instiution. in Eritrea pumpkins grows well in the subtropics,tropics and also semi arid places. my question is about powdery mildew, all our pumpkins gets affected by this fungus so i would like to ask if their are any cultivation practices we need to practice to avoid this fungus
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