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Rockmelon (also Canteloupe) 18 Feb, sandra (Australia - arid climate)
You may be caring for your plants too much, possibly too much fertilizer, they don't mind a bit of neglect!
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Rockmelon (also Canteloupe) 25 Jan, Jan (Australia - temperate climate)
Our rockmelon vine is prolific with plenty of Vine & the fruit almost growing on top of each other. Does the fruit need sun exposure or just the vine? The vine is covering all the fruit will they ripen that way? Thanks Jan
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Rockmelon (also Canteloupe) 03 Feb, John (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
I have found sometimes the intence heat of the North West W.A. effects the flower set. Try March to September. Had the same trouble with watermellons too.
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Rockmelon (also Canteloupe) 24 Jan, mal (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
I live in hoppers crossing vic and have raised veggie beds in my front yard. I have several rockmelon plants laiden with quite large fruit. I never expected them to grow this well considering the location I am in, is this unusual?
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Rockmelon (also Canteloupe) 01 Feb, (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
hi iam in hoppers aswell we have a lot of melons how can you tell when they are ready do they change colour"?
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Chilli peppers (also Hot peppers) 23 Jan, wayne (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Ive grown many a differant chilli in the bundaberg region and with great success. Just keep them well watered. Full sun. Pinch off earliest blossoms for a bigger harvest. Good luck farmer joe
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Chilli peppers (also Hot peppers) 23 Jan, Lynne (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
I've grown chillis many years but in another country. I'm now in a sub-tropical area of Australia and not having any luck with any type of chilli plant. I've bought seedlings, seeds and even been given grown producing plants. They never seem to develop much beyond whatever stage they were in when given to me. What am I doing wrong? Are they more difficult to grow in the sub-tropics? Could it be a soil issue? Thanks for any suggestions or help.
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Horseradish 22 Jan, Brian (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
is the horseradiah plant frost hardy?
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Horseradish 23 Jan, Jen (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
Hello Brian, I would say yes, as I have mine planted in a big 42 cm wide pot but did not move it into "winter quarters" as I do with my Kaffir Lime potted tree, it showed no damage over the years, Happy gardening Jen
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Cucumber 21 Jan, john murray (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
do you pick cucumber when the stems dry the same as pumpkin
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Cucumber 02 Feb, Jen (Australia - temperate climate)
I am growing a Lebanese cucumber and I pick them when they are small (about 10cm) as they are very sweet, they occasionally get to store size if the children don't find them first! The telegraph variety I picked at about 25 cm. I have never waited for vines to die down.
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Okra (also Ladyfinger, gumbo) 20 Jan, Wendy (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Find a permaculture group in your area and they are sure to have seeds or cutting. It is a survivasl food. 27.6% protien in the leaves.
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Choko/Chayote (also Chayote squash, christophene, chouchou, mirliton) 20 Jan, Heather (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Just picked the first chokos from my vine and they are white! Is it a different variety? Isn't it supposed to be green? I bought the plant from local farmers markets.
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Choko/Chayote (also Chayote squash, christophene, chouchou, mirliton) 03 Feb, (Australia - temperate climate)
I just read that there is a white variety.
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Choko/Chayote (also Chayote squash, christophene, chouchou, mirliton) 10 Apr, Chris Lopez (Australia - temperate climate)
Hi I would be interested in growing a white choko, been looking for them for ages, you wouldn't be able to send one through the mail, I will pay for freight, just email me if you can. Thanks
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Choko/Chayote (also Chayote squash, christophene, chouchou, mirliton) 11 Aug, phillip shegog (Australia - temperate climate)
The only white choko I`ve seen was some years ago,growing in an old lady`s garden,,in St.Marys in western Sydney.
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Cape Gooseberry (also Golden Berry, Inca Berry ) 19 Jan, Carol (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
My gooseberries has taken off and are quite large bushes. I have an ongoing battle with little cucumber beetles (I think). I have grown them in three different suburbs around Toowoomba (different plant sources) and have always got this annoying and persistent beetle making a mess of the bushes. Pyrethrum seems to keep them at bay but not eradicate them. The berries look great until I open the paper pod and there is only a tiny shriveled up thing inside. Is the pyrethrum destroying the berries or the bugs? Or maybe would there be a problem with soil nutrition? Does anyone know?
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Cape Gooseberry (also Golden Berry, Inca Berry ) 20 Jan, Canh (Australia - temperate climate)
Hi Carol, My guess is your plant isn't getting enough water and/ or manure. My cape gooseberry which is now in the green house has gone wild, it's taken over the greenhouse. Not that I mind because it is loaded with fruit. Occasionally I squeeze the green husks to feel how the fruits are developing. The husks that developed in early December has fruits the size of a marble. I don't think they are going to get much bigger than that. New side shoots are still emerging just like the tomato plants and new fruit are developing with these new shoots. How I look after my goose berry is I try to get keep the soil around the plant moist but not damp if you know what i mean. Occasionally I let the soil to almost dry out but never completely dry so the root system can breathe. If you see the leaves starting to wilt from dry soil this will affect the berries in the pods. Try putting dry leaves around the base of the tree to preserve moisture. I don't need to mulch mine because the plant is so bushy it's shading the base itself!! I feed the plant with horse manure. How i do it is, I have a plastic bin about 40 litres with a cover. I put about a supermarket size bag of raw horse manure in the bin then filled it up with water, put the lit on and let it sit for about 2 weeks. I then scoop 4 or 5 cups of this mixture including the grassy bits of the manure from the bin and put into a 10 litre bucket. Fill the bucket up with fresh water, stir them together and water the plants. I feed the plants once every 2 weeks. simple as that..
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Chives (also Garden chives) 17 Jan, amanda (Australia - temperate climate)
my chives are 2 years old and healthy, however this past winter they went a bit dormant and still have not had a growth spurt you would expect with the warm/hot weather. they are in beds, i water daily, and use seasol. i also just put powerfeed pellets in the bed last week. how do i get my chives to perk up and be robust?
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Parsley (also curly leaf parsley or flat leaf (Italian) parsley) 17 Jan, amanda (Australia - temperate climate)
in early spring I had a happy parsley living in a full sun garden bed. however it was growing out of control and i cut it back. now all i have is a large parsley plant in seed with very little edible leaves for cooking. what should i do to stop seed and promote healthy edible leaves again?
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Beans - climbing (also Pole beans, Runner beans, Scarlet Runners) 17 Jan, frank kroeger (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate)
why didnt my scarlet runner bean get any beans.had plenty of flowers and after that nothing.thank you frank
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Beans - climbing (also Pole beans, Runner beans, Scarlet Runners) 01 Oct, Noodle (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
Runner beans will only set pods with cool nights. Perhaps the nights were too warm where you grew them? Where I live they do not set pods until late autumn, then we have a few weeks before frost kills them.
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Beans - climbing (also Pole beans, Runner beans, Scarlet Runners) 19 Apr, Richard (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
hi Frank, we had this same problem years ago in England and believe it or not it was the bees,''english bumble bees to be presice'' what they were doing was as they landed on the flower to pollinate it they were going to the back of the flower and biting it,so the result was the flowers fell off without being pollinated..It only happened the one year but it was very strange,i solved it by spraying the flowers with a sugar syrup mixture
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Capsicum (also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers) 17 Jan, Kay (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
I have 4 capsicum plants outside in my garden, 2 have green fruit on them, but now one has started to show black coloration on the bottom of the fruit, still seems very firm and still growing, I just am wondering what to do, as if it is diseased I don't want to infect my other plants.
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Capsicum (also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers) 28 Jan, Tassy Michele (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
Hiya Kay .... Don't stress as this is part of the ripening process. The darkish bottom is a sign that the fruit is chaniging from green and ripening into the red capsicum like those you buy at the supermarket ....not unlike an apple that is green and turns to red when ripened. Hope this helps. Cheers Michele
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Tomato 16 Jan, Irene (Australia - temperate climate)
Planted Apollo Tomatoes Improved: They were fruiting beautifully until today I saw what looks like teeny blemishes, tiny dints like pin pricks coming on them...they are still unripe and more are coming what can I do to save the crop or is this a normal part of the process. By the way we have had a lot of rain but the drainage is fine. Thank you
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Tomato 15 Sep, Jessica Vivien (Australia - temperate climate)
Hi Irene, I'm in Perth, I had this problem a couple of years ago, and the culprits were green shield bugs. I could not find a suitable treatment apart from picking these off by hand. They wrecked most of my tomatoes except the cherries and a Roma. Part of the problem was that I was growing them in a spot well sheltered from wind, and too close together I think, which provided perfect conditions for the beetles. I have now build an enclosed vegetable garden covered with quarter inch netting, which keeps out the adult beetles so they cannot lay eggs around this area, and the babies would have to walk a very long way to get in. My enclosed garden also keeps out cabbage butterfly, parrots, possums, rats, bandicoots, large snails. I still have to contend with slugs and slaters though.
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Tomato 21 Jan, Bec (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Sounds like fruit fly. Try hanging some fruit fly traps around and yellow sticky traps. Had this problem last year but since hanging up a eco-lure no problems this season.
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Leeks 15 Jan, Jo (Australia - temperate climate)
When can I plant parsnips in Perth? I sowed seeds in the garden in October and nothing came up!!
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Capsicum (also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers) 15 Jan, Hans (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Hi! I have 3 capsicum plants and I am getting fruit on them but they do not grow large; one is a purple and 2 green; the fruit on the green plant start to rot before ripening. I give them plenty of water and fertilizer. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong??
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