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Potato 04 Sep, moses (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate)
where can I buy certified seed in pretoria
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Cape Gooseberry (also Golden Berry, Inca Berry ) 04 Sep, Carole - Brisbane (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Hi, I just purchased 2 Cape Gooseberry plants from Timbara Nursery at Thornlands, Brisbane. I have yet to plant them but hopefully they will go well.
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Cape Gooseberry (also Golden Berry, Inca Berry ) 06 Sep, amy (Australia - arid climate)
Hi Carole, please tell me from where did you buy cape gooseberry plants.Regards
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Cape Gooseberry (also Golden Berry, Inca Berry ) 07 Sep, Mike (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Did you read her comment. Read it again. A certain nursery in a suburb of Brisbane.
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Cape Gooseberry (also Golden Berry, Inca Berry ) 04 Nov, Ian (Australia - temperate climate)
I just bought a packet of the seeds and tossed in a pinchful per pot of seed raising mix, the seeds are soooooo tiny! Kept them in the shade, the occasional watering and after a long 4-5 weeks up they came! I now have six healthy plants growing in one of those above ground galvanised iron planter surrounds, they seem quite happy but at their tender age definitely hate the direct sun! I have tossed some 80% shade cloth over them and will stake lots of plastic mesh them to keep them all together and not trying to escape their garden!
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Cape Gooseberry (also Golden Berry, Inca Berry ) 05 Sep, Mike (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
As it says you can plant from July, I think it would be safe to plant out in the garden now. It will grow a lot better in the garden - more nutrients. Pity you didn't plant a week or so ago. Today is full moon night - plants really grow around the full moon.
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Potato 03 Sep, Nomzamo (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate)
is it ok to plant potatoes before the first rains around September? and how long will it take for them to ripen?
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Tomatillo 03 Sep, Kate Frawley (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
I just bought one tomatillo plant as part of a mixed punnet from Bunnings. Dies this mean I wont get fruit as I read they are not self pollinators
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Tomatillo 14 Nov, Cassi (Australia - temperate climate)
Hi kate can you give me a couple more details please - like which bunnings and can you remember which brand the punnet was etc? I need tomatillos to harevst for early jan and out of the 7 seeds i planted only one is still alive :( I need to find already growing seedlings now....and yes everything i read says they dont self pollinate :(
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Tomatillo 10 Sep, Sue Dietrich (Australia - temperate climate)
I bought seed packets from Bunnings Traralgon. I have about 30 growing. Kate, how did yours fare? I did read you can prune them after four leaves appear. this is my first attempt
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Tomatillo 04 Sep, Mike (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
That is what it says. Need to buy one or some more plants.
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Okra (also Ladyfinger, gumbo) 02 Sep, Judith smith (Australia - temperate climate)
Where can I buy okra plants or seeds in Victoria. Thank you
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Okra (also Ladyfinger, gumbo) 10 Feb, JUDY (Australia - temperate climate)
I got my seeds from Bunnings. They're not difficult to find.
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Okra (also Ladyfinger, gumbo) 04 Sep, Darren (Australia - temperate climate)
The Seed Collection has okra seeds, and they are based in Victoria.
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Okra (also Ladyfinger, gumbo) 04 Sep, Mike (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
I buy from Boondie Seeds (the internet) - $1 / packet for 10/20 seeds. $2 postage, so if you can, buy a few different variety of seeds to keep postage down - as in 10 packets will only cost you $2 in total. Have a look around the website.
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Okra (also Ladyfinger, gumbo) 07 Feb, John Manousso (Australia - temperate climate)
That is a better cheaper way to buy Okra then to buy them at a grocery store supermarket they charged me $5 for roughly 00.282 grams. All I wanted was to get the seeds so I can grow my own crop
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Sweet Potato (also Kumara) 01 Sep, Roscoe (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
We live in the Brisbane Valley. Our sweet potatoes never die off.
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Sweet Potato (also Kumara) 04 Sep, Mike (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
It is perennial - will grow for a few years.
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Watermelon 01 Sep, Coccinelle (Australia - temperate climate)
I have 1m square veg boxes. In one I've only planted a few pumpkin seedlings. Can i use the rest of the space to grow watermelon? Will they be compatible?
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Watermelon 04 Sep, Darren (Australia - temperate climate)
In that space, you will only be able to grow 1 or 2 pumpkin or watermelon vines. Both require a lot of room.
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Watermelon 04 Sep, Mike (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
A 1 square meter garden would only support about1- 2 pumpkin plants. Or only 1-2 water melons. About 3-4 cucumber plants. Just think how big the plants will grow and how much nutrient they will require.
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Rhubarb 31 Aug, Val Scott (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate)
Where in Durban can I buy rhubarb plants?
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Broccoli 30 Aug, stella jackon (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
where would be the best town or city in Australia to grow broccoli
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Broccoli 31 Aug, Mike (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
How long is a piece of string? Anywhere - it is a cool weather season crop. Plant from April onwards. Really hot places it would dry out if not watered a lot. Read up about growing it.
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Sweet corn (also corn,maize) 27 Aug, Rhyce (Australia - tropical climate)
why can't you grow corn near celery
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Sweet corn (also corn,maize) 24 Oct, Natalie (USA - Zone 8b climate)
Companion planting is a common practice. Certain plants use up a lot of nutrients from the ground. And shouldn't be planted with plants that need those nutrients. Conversely there are plants that's should be planted together, as they help the plants grow stronger, sweeter or even deter pests.
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Ginger 27 Aug, Geoffrey Page (Australia - tropical climate)
I trying to grow ginger in a large pot but seen to-be doing to well how high does grow my only about 6" high
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Ginger 28 Aug, Mike (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Google - ginger plants - they seem to grow to about 18-24" high. Read about how to grow it. Regular fert each month - not one big hit of fert.
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Ginger 28 Aug, Geoffrey Page (Australia - tropical climate)
Sorry word that last comment wrong ginger is not doing well struggling is there a particular fertilize required
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Ginger 29 Aug, Mike (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
A general all round fertiliser has about 10-12% N, 4-5% P and around 12-14% K for growing vegetables around here (Bundaberg) . Only way to know is do a soil test. If you dig up some ground put some dry matter (dry grass, manure, leaves etc and some fert and lime and give it 3-4 mths to all rot down you should have a reasonable soil. see how you plant goes in the next few months with the warmer weather.
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