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Sweet corn (also corn,maize) 31 Dec, (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
Is something eating the silks off inside the cobs? Maybe the plants have got a bit stressed? Lack of water or too much heat?
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Carrot 29 Dec, Rosa (Australia - temperate climate)
Something has been chewing my carrots. I found the culprit to be grey fat grubs about 2cm long. Can someone identify them, and should I be worried about my beetroots?
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Carrot 04 Jan, Mark Logan (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
It is most likely the African Black Beetle grub. Not much you can do about them other than digging them up and giving them to the chooks. Your beetroots may take a knock as well as will any potatoes you may have. I have found that they don't like soil in which garlic has been planted so try planting after them.
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Capsicum (also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers) 28 Dec, CJ (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
My capsicum plants took off great guns, then about 2 weeks ago the leaves started yellowing a little bit and growth seems t have stopped. I had a little muncher helping himself but he was soon dismissed (flicked away, hasn't been back). They're well watered in a good draining soil. What else do I need to do to help them along. I'm no green thumb. LOL
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Silverbeet (also Swiss Chard or Mangold) 25 Dec, dee (Australia - temperate climate)
What eats silver beet at night? Husband growing it and finding at night it gets munched? We live in town so no rabbits.
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Silverbeet (also Swiss Chard or Mangold) 30 May, Jeremy (Australia - temperate climate)
Most commonly you will find it to be slaters and/or snails. I've even found a few cabbage moth catepillars on the underside of the leaves from time to time. A good pyrethum (natural) spray should help take care of it.
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Silverbeet (also Swiss Chard or Mangold) 07 Apr, Salli Su (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
It might be possums eating your silverbeet
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Silverbeet (also Swiss Chard or Mangold) 17 Apr, Andrew S (Australia - temperate climate)
Could well be.. but I would also include good old rats and even bandicoots (even in town).
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Rhubarb 23 Dec, bec (Australia - temperate climate)
how do make my rhubarb stalks go red what are they needing for this problem thanks
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Rhubarb 27 Jan, Kevin (Australia - temperate climate)
You cant change the colour of the stalks,it is purely a cosmetic thing ,taste is no different,if you want a red colour when you cook the stalks add some mixed berries ( from the frozen section of the supermarket or cochinealle!!
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Coriander (also Cilantro, Chinese parsley) 22 Dec, wayne (Australia - temperate climate)
love corriander even when it goes to seed which I harvest and use in my cooking.. replant using the seeds that the plant provides.
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Capsicum (also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers) 22 Dec, graham (Australia - temperate climate)
Can you over water capsicum plants.when they are getting close to pick they start to go rotten.
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Tomato 21 Dec, Allen Lee (Australia - temperate climate)
Mulching of tomatoes is always a good practice and if you are short on stakes and have palm trees handy cut off one palm leaf strip off leaves use rib as stake replace later if needed. The reason for the chewed tomato underside are snails and during the night have a great feast and by the time you see them they are hidding on a full stomAch of tomatoes. The Slater isn't the problem he's just visitor enjoying the works of the snail and slugs. If the hole is a single small dot could be fruit fly if larger could be white cabbage moth.
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Tomato 21 Dec, allen lee (Australia - temperate climate)
The grubs you have in your tomatoes are fruit fly. There are few remedies one is organic it has both male& female attracting lure in jar.the other has a male trap and there is female attraction lure which you paint on. A leading hardware store sell net bags which I find useful tied around forming bunches it allow air in stops birds pecking them(close weave) and prevents some flies getting to tomatoes and can be left to ripen. You can use chemical spray but must take care check label instruction wear protective clothing and check withholding period.
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Tomato 31 Dec, Chris (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
I found that mosquito bed nets work well to exclude fruit fly from tomato plants, and fit perfectly over a centre stack. You just need to weight down the edges on the ground so flies can't get under them.
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Tomato 21 Dec, allen lee (Australia - arid climate)
Blossom end rot the blacking at the base of tomatoes may be eased by using lime or dolomite water in well there is also product of the same but is liquid form which is mixed with wAter and can be used as a foliage spray if you do it this way add eco fungicide and seasol to protect leaf disease.
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Cucumber 21 Dec, allen lee (Australia - temperate climate)
The reason cues may go yellow could be if grown on the ground the fruit doesn't get enough light and as it throws out more leaves it becomes more shadowed try growing on trellis and cut away any yellowing leaves allow light into bush also give good spray with seasol (seaweed) & eco fungicide.
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Celeriac 19 Dec, Lesley (Australia - temperate climate)
We've got a huge amount of greenery but no bulb. We sowed seed in early spring. Will the bulbs form later because they are biennial?
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Coriander (also Cilantro, Chinese parsley) 17 Dec, tom shepherd (Australia - temperate climate)
I grew coriander from late winter & got a great ongoing harvest for about 3.5 months. It looks like my new batch will be going to seed quite quickly. My suggestion is grow late winter & try autumn as well. Time it so it's not growing in extreme heat/cold
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Sweet Potato (also Kumara) 17 Dec, Simone (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
I have wanted to grow sweet pot for few years now. What size plot do we need for sweet potato? How big does a single tuber grow to?
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Sweet Potato (also Kumara) 27 Nov, Elizabeth (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
I grow mine in a 1m square bed they grow as much as you let them. the tubers can grow huge depending on how long they have in the ground at the right temperatures. My last lot seemed to be fairly small but i think i dug them up to soon, 20 cm long and 5cm diameter.
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Sweet Potato (also Kumara) 20 May, Wayne (Australia - temperate climate)
You can also grow in a very small plot - they grow suprisingly well suspended in a glass of water on the window sill. Use a few toothpicks to support on surface of water
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Sweet Potato (also Kumara) 28 Jan, Kevin (Australia - temperate climate)
You need an area that will allow the runners that will grow from the cut pieces of tubers to run over a large area, Mine grow over approx 6x6 metres and still want to spread. Tubers can grow up to at least around 2 kilos or more.
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Sweet corn (also corn,maize) 16 Dec, Ryan (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Yet again my corn grown in 3 rows, spaced about 30cm apart, has failed. The plant is beautiful and green, and about 2m tall. The cobs just don't develop, even though the threads are turning brown. It appears it's a pollination problem, but I'm not sure what else I can do. Maybe where they're planted doesn't get enough breeze. Any other ideas?
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Sweet corn (also corn,maize) 30 Dec, Ivan (Australia - temperate climate)
Hi Ryan, I second what Colin said about planting in blocks. I used to plant in rows as well and came up with nothing. When planted in rows and closer together, I started getting results and the sweetest corn that we have tasted. No need to dip in butter as well. My dad even ate it straight off the plant without cooking.
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Sweet corn (also corn,maize) 19 Dec, Colin (Australia - temperate climate)
Corn needs to be grown in blocks instead of rows to maximise pollination, the pollen from the tassels falls onto the silk to enable pollination, without this process there will be no corn. Corn is a hungry feeder and loves to be mulched with manure,compost and straw to keep the water in the soil. Another reason for no cobs could be to much nitrogen so check what you are fertilising wiith. Also corn loves lots of water and a sweet soil. it takes 16 weeks from seed to harvest time.I hope this helps. I grow around 200 plants in a block for the year and when harvesting I shuck each cob and roll it in cling wrap, then it's into the freezer. To cook it takes 3 minutes in the microwave and then remove the plastic wrap, carefully.
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Sweet corn (also corn,maize) 18 Dec, adam (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
Hmmm, Ryan. Corn, as you know, pollinates when the dust from the tassles at the top falls on the silks. Often in the sub tropics, the air is too moist and makes the dust fall straight down to the ground, and it's viability is very short. Maybe you could cut off a tassle carefully, put it straight into a plastic bag, bring it inside with the bag open, just to get rid of a bit of moisture, and then hand pollinate by shaking the bag over the silks of the other corn, or getting a brush and lightly brushing it onto the silks.
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Coriander (also Cilantro, Chinese parsley) 15 Dec, Wayne (Australia - temperate climate)
Hi There, like all the other comments, my coriander has started to flower. I bought the herb already grown so have had some good leaves. Do I now just cut it off at the base and plant some new seeds or wait for the new laves to grow through. The pot is getting sun from morning until about 3 in the afternoon. I am watering every second day. If I don't cut it off, how do I collect the seeds from the plant itself? Many thanks
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Coriander (also Cilantro, Chinese parsley) 18 Dec, adam (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
you could always just let it go to seed, and have free seed. Seems a shame to cut it, when you can just let it self seed where it is, and save the expense of buying new.
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Leeks 15 Dec, Beverley (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
I have the same problem as Taryn, leeks small and flowering. Could anyone please comment and offer helpful suggestions.
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