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Yam/Oca (also Oka) 25 May, Cheryl (Australia - temperate climate): .i'm wondering if Amanda tried growing yams and if so can l get some tubers or buy some yams .l live in mildura too .
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Yam/Oca (also Oka) 28 Jun, Mike L (Australia - temperate climate): It does say plant (P) Oct to Nov for Temperate climate.
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Sunflower 23 Jun, Susie (USA - Zone 8b climate): When is the last month I can successfully plant Mammoth Sunflower seeds in my zone 8b?
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Sunflower 25 Jun, (USA - Zone 8b climate): I asked that question in a FB garden group and they said to plant now
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French tarragon 23 Jun, Anne-Marie (Australia - temperate climate): My french tarragon that I have been growing for approx. 3 years now is growing more as a prostrate plant than an upright plant. The height is probably only about 7.5 cm but it has lots of long ground covering branches. Do you have any thoughts on why this would be so? Please use my e-mail address for your response. Much appreciated. Anne-Marie
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French tarragon 15 Jun, Ii (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I have exactly the same issue and find that the taste is overpowering and bitter, and the leaves are small. It’s not as sweet as the tarragon I know. Did you find a solution?
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French tarragon 31 Jul, kelvan (Australia - temperate climate): Cut plant to ground level in winter.Pull up and divide your plant/s early spring.
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French tarragon 28 Jun, Mike L (Australia - temperate climate): Try a new planting from different stock.
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French tarragon 28 Jun, Mike L (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Comments here are by the general public not Gardenate so no response by email. I don't know anything about French Tarragon.
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Tomato 23 Jun, Mike Ktori (Australia - sub-tropical climate): We have recently moved from the Derwent Valley in Tasmania to Sandstone Point in Queensland. We formally had to plant our tomatoes under glass and never succeeded in having fruit in time for Christmas.Now we have room for a few raised beds whereas we had acreage in the valley; I'm wondering if, in this warmer climate, I can have tomatoes year round.
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Tomato 28 Jun, Mike L (Australia - sub-tropical climate): You can grow all year round. Summer can become a but hot and very wet (as in inches of rain in hours) -use mulch around the plants. Best to grow a crop from late Feb for a winter picking crop and plant in mid August for crop into summer. Or even plant a succession crop each time also - 4-6 weeks between each planting. Only need 2-4 plants each time. .
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Cabbage 20 Jun, Steve from Kanahooka NSW (Australia - temperate climate): Hi Mike, Very interesting tips, I will try the worm castings in the shade cloth, sounds good. I also use brown gum leaves as a mulch around the plants, the garden worms love it, I also dig my browns into the soil after crops have finished as well, same as you. The reason I purchased a 2 compartment compost bin was to have varying compost NPK ratios. My compartment No.1 has 50% Browns to 50% Greens which is good for above ground growth and compartment No.2 will have approx. 80% Browns to 20% Greens for my below ground root vegies, I alter percentages all year round to suit the plants I am growing. In the winter I grow brassicas and I use 70% Greens to 30% Browns for more Nitrogen. I also pile my grass clippings on the gardens in the summer when I have excess clippings. BR...….Steve
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Cabbage 21 Jun, Mike L (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I don't know the techie stuff about compost but I thought the greens (N) was only there to break down the brown (C) And you need to combine them with water and air to achieve compost. Once the N has been used up then the process loses the heat in it and it will go to cold compost. I didn't think there was much N in compost so different levels of G and B wouldn't make much difference. Be interesting to have them tested. My garden bed is a continuous bed so all the different plants are mixed up in rows. Low plants - lettuce radish shallots cabbage one end and the high plants - corn tomatoes snow peas the other end.
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Jerusalem Artichokes (also Sunchoke) 19 Jun, kenneth (USA - Zone 5a climate): Can I grew them in zone 5a?
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Jerusalem Artichokes (also Sunchoke) 18 Apr, Shayne (USA - Zone 5a climate): They grew really well in Tropic Utah, which is high elevation by Bryce Canyon.
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Jerusalem Artichokes (also Sunchoke) 22 Oct, Susan Butler (USA - Zone 5a climate): My mother in law grew Jerusalem Artichokes at 9000ft
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Jerusalem Artichokes (also Sunchoke) 19 Jun, Liz (New Zealand - temperate climate): Set your zone at the top of this page and check info there www.gardenate.com/plant/Jerusalem%2BArtichokes
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Silverbeet (also Swiss Chard or Mangold) 17 Jun, Diane (New Zealand - cool/mountain climate): Silverbeet grows just fine in Taumarunui without being in a glasshouse- just keep the possoms off it. Mangolds are NOT silver beet but a large turnip used as stock feed
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Silverbeet (also Swiss Chard or Mangold) 20 Jun, Mike L (Australia - sub-tropical climate): From Gardening website.--
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Silverbeet (also Swiss Chard or Mangold) 21 Jun, Mike L (Australia - sub-tropical climate): The article says it is really a beet.
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Tomato 17 Jun, Jane (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I have sown various and different tomato seeds (climbing and other) trays in the greenhouse and now they are seedlings. 1. How big must they be before I plant them out(sown 25/5/18) and 2. How can I stop bugs/insects from attacking/destroying the tomatoes? 3.I want to put up a frame and netting/shade cloth all around but my concern is that if I do so then how to the tomatoes get pollinated if the bees can't get to them (and other plants)? :( Thanks.
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Tomato 18 Jun, Mike Logan (Australia - cool/mountain climate): Use derris dust or some other home made organic spray - look on the internet. Plant as soon as they have a few true leaves. They grow better in the ground than in a pot. Tomatoes are self pollinating - by the wind - or give them a gentle shake. Google about this if you like. Try Greenpatch Organic for vegetable netting 3.5 and 6m wide $4 and $7.50 by the meter. We are going into cool/cold weather so next time plant earlier (Feb- March) or leave it until spring time.
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Tomato 02 Sep, Jane (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Mike Logan - I forgot to say - thanks for yr advice last June.
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Beans - climbing (also Pole beans, Runner beans, Scarlet Runners) 17 Jun, Jane (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Hi. I have just read that beans are not happy around chives but have a couple of climbing beans (and climbing peas)near chives. Should I leave them or dig up and transplant the chives ir beans or neither? Thanx.
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Beans - climbing (also Pole beans, Runner beans, Scarlet Runners) 18 Jun, Mike L (Australia - sub-tropical climate): If the plants are well grown leave them. If they are seedling stage transplant one or the other. Or let them go and see what happens.
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Beans - climbing (also Pole beans, Runner beans, Scarlet Runners) 08 Jul, Jane (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Mike, just to say thank you. Appreciated. So far so good. They are (to my untrained eye) looking OK. I have sown several others along a fence in another garden area but am not sure how they'll go. This site is brilliant. Jane
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Peas 17 Jun, Lauren (Australia - sub-tropical climate): We live in Coffs Harbour NSW, I planted sugar snaps in April in a veggie planter box in new organic soil from the nursery. They got started quickly and looked promising only to now dwindle without progress. They are planted next to rocket which is going very well. What am I doing wrong?
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Peas 01 Jul, bianca (Australia - temperate climate): your not doing anything wrong..they will pollinate and grow peas in September. they need bees and warmth. just be patient
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Cape Gooseberry (also Golden Berry, Inca Berry ) 17 Jun, Carole (Australia - temperate climate): My cape gooseberries are growing well in tubs and flowering and setting fruit. My problem is what looks like black jelly inside the lanterns (fruit) I don't know if it is from cucumber beetles or what it is. Any ideas what it is and how to treat it please. I had cucumbers which got decimated earlier in the season and have seen some striped orange beetles on the berry plants
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Cape Gooseberry (also Golden Berry, Inca Berry ) 18 Jun, Mike L (Australia - cool/mountain climate): Pick a few and see what it is. We have cucumber fly here. Don't know about beetles. If fly try some sticky yellow fly catching cardbpard. Some of the cheap $2 shops stock it in Aussie.
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