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Kale (also Borecole) 13 Apr, Tineke (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Can anybody tell me where to find curly kale (boerenkool) plants or seeds in the newcastle nsw area?
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Kale (also Borecole) 16 Jun, John (Australia - temperate climate)
I buy my kale seeds from bunnings
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Broad Beans (also Fava bean) 13 Apr, Martin (Australia - temperate climate)
Are broad beans ok to grow with tomatoes.?
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Broad Beans (also Fava bean) 25 Apr, Steve (Australia - temperate climate)
I would say, yes if you look at the compatibility it shows potatoes which is in the same family as tomatoes
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Broad Beans (also Fava bean) 17 May, Chris (Australia - temperate climate)
You are generally growing broad beans and tomatoes in different seasons so it isn't an issue.
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Lettuce 12 Apr, marlene (Australia - temperate climate)
is there any iodine/sodium in ice berg lettuces as Im on a low iodine diet ?
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Sunflower 11 Apr, carine ferreira (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
planted sunflowers in pots 10 april want flowers to be at their peak 23 june. Think we ll be ok?
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Beans - climbing (also Pole beans, Runner beans, Scarlet Runners) 09 Apr, derek howes (Australia - temperate climate)
where can ibuy runner bean seed , as grown in uk ?
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Collards (also Collard greens, Borekale) 08 Apr, Mike (Australia - temperate climate)
For anyone in Adelaide, I got some collard seeds yesterday from Wilson's organics which is just off gouger st by the central markets. They are from Eden seeds who also have a website with heaps of different seeds. Hope this helps.
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Shallots (also Eschalots) 08 Apr, Ana (Australia - temperate climate)
Are we speaking about the very small shallots as big a a garlic bulb or are we speaking about shallots that are like small onions? Thank you
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Pumpkin 08 Apr, June (Australia - temperate climate)
Planted potkin & Qld Blue pumpkins. They all keep going yellow and dying when they first form. Does anybody know why this keeps happening please.
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Beetroot (also Beets) 07 Apr, moideen mampadan (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
can i grow beetroot in polyhouse?
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Capsicum (also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers) 07 Apr, sean james (Australia - temperate climate)
there is a great deal of bull Large ants on & around my capsicum plant & the leaves are falling off, why. pls.
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Pumpkin 06 Apr, Des Harrison (Australia - temperate climate)
My vines develop small green pumpkins and after a week they turn yellow and fall off the stem. What is the problem?
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Pumpkin 22 May, Kristene (Australia - tropical climate)
They sound like they haven’t been pollinated.
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Pumpkin 07 Apr, Narelle (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
I've had the same problem this year so would be interested to hear from others!
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Pumpkin 04 May, Brendan (Australia - tropical climate)
Lacking calcium. Soil pH is probably too low, feed it some Dolomite around the root zone. If the soil pH is ok, use Gypsum instead.
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Jerusalem Artichokes (also Sunchoke) 03 Apr, Roy Winter (Australia - tropical climate)
Urgent question, I need to find out where I can get Sunroot or Jeruslem Artchoke tabelts or capsules. I have been advised they will help my wife with her diabetes, with the numbness and pins and needles in her feet and fingers. Can someone please help with this information. Please email me ASAP if anyone can assist in my need for these tablets Thanks Roy
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Jerusalem Artichokes (also Sunchoke) 07 Apr, Nikki Mackenzie (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Hi Roy Jerusalem Artichoke is great for diabetics. It is ALWAYS better to eat the real thing than rely on tablets or capsules. Tablets have no 'life force' and are basically a way for the pharmaceuticals to make money so they can increase their profits and distribute dividends to shareholders. There is no money in real food for big pharma so grow your own plants. They are very easy to grow and are extremely good for you. For numbness and tingles incorporate good quality salt into the diet eg himalayan or celtic sea salt. Salt allows the electrical signals or spark of information travel throughout every cell in the body via the nervous system. The salinity and mineral component of good salts is the same as our blood. AVOID table salt - it is a chemical substitute.
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Yam/Oca (also Oka) 03 Apr, John Studte (Australia - temperate climate)
Hi Joan.Don`t cut the growth as that is normal and means they are growing well.You will get tubers growing along the growth and at the end also. Cheers John. Tassie.
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Potato 02 Apr, sharon (Australia - temperate climate)
I planted some potatoes 3 to 4 weeks ago. They have grown stems, leaves, flowers....which I just noticed have turned into little green fruit like baby Tomatoes. Is this normal, or can you advise what it is...what should I do please? with thanks.
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Potato 05 Apr, Ferran (Australia - arid climate)
that's some fast growing plants! After flowering they will die back, that is when you harvest. If the growth is out of proportion to your potatoes when you harvest then the soil had too much nitrogen promoting leaf growth and hindering the roots. my garden has some naturally growing potato left in the soil from last harvest spouted 4weeks ago and now flowering normally they would not be there but they were deeper than I was dinging at harvest. If you are practicing rotation cops do not!!!! plant corn or sun flowers after potatoes it stunts them. beans are good. potatoes should not be in the same place for seven years after seven years the chemicals that are put in the soil by potatoes as well as disease and pests should have gone from the soil.
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Potato 08 Apr, Sharon (Australia - temperate climate)
Thanks for that advice....But what about my question re "They have grown stems, leaves, flowers....which I just noticed have turned into little green fruit-like baby Tomatoes ON THE STEMS. Is this normal"? - Sharon, Sydney
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Potato 10 Apr, Alice (Australia - temperate climate)
They are the potato "fruit" (potatoes are the tuber bits under the ground). DO NOT EAT THEM!! They're highly toxic. Chop them up, wash the seeds and plant them, and you'll get more potato plants!
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Parsley (also curly leaf parsley or flat leaf (Italian) parsley) 31 Mar, doug (Australia - temperate climate)
We live in the Riverland of South Australia with a temperate zone. Hot summers Can get to 45 degrees in summer. Over the past say fifty years our family and friends here have grown parsley successfully. In the Spring time many seeds have come up so we have all had parsley.growing very well. Over the past two years or so no one around here has have seeds come up on their own the next season.Sown packet seed is almost impossible to germinate and if so plants will not grow more than two to three inches high. What is the problem. We are devastated. Last spring I planted seed. some came up but never grew beyond the three inches high with around three sets of leaves.
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Strawberry Plants 30 Mar, Noel Challis (Australia - temperate climate)
I am just starting a strawberry bed and require 60 plants or runners. Can anybody help. Will pay transport and packaging costs. Can not afford commercial or nursery plants.
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Strawberry Plants 28 Apr, Andre (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Hi Noel, I'm redoing my strawberry patch and have more plants than I know what to do with. I am in Brisbane. Let me know if you are interested and you can have as many as you like.
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Rockmelon (also Canteloupe) 30 Mar, Jan (Australia - temperate climate)
Hi, Im in Adelaide and I'm just wondering if I can grow rockmelon all year round so I can have a constant supply. Cheers, Jan.
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Rockmelon (also Canteloupe) 15 Nov, Denise (Australia - temperate climate)
Hi Jan, I live in Adelaide as well and starting with the rockmelons now. Did you have any success so far?
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Eggplant (also Aubergine) 30 Mar, chris (Australia - temperate climate)
no mater how much we try we always get a worm in our fruit we have sprayed with lebsyd have put lime in the soil we change the patch around do you know what type of worm it is and how to control it
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