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Cauliflower 28 Oct, Bruce (Australia - temperate climate)
Be patient, they grow huge and quite slowly.
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Cauliflower 17 Nov, dave (Australia - temperate climate)
cauli sould be grown in cool temps it dose not like summer
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Burdock (also Gobo (Japanese Burdock)) 13 Oct, Jenny (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
Dear Where can I buy the burdock roots in ACT? Please help. Thanks
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Sweet Potato (also Kumara) 12 Oct, Sean Gallagher (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Can you grow from store bought Sweet Potato
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Sweet Potato (also Kumara) 19 Sep, Andrew (Australia - temperate climate)
I grew a crop from store bought sweet potatoes - just have to wait for them to start shooting then plant to leave the shoot tips (with 2 small leaves) showing . I have had good crops for a couple of years with minimal attention other than normal weeding and watering.
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Broad Beans (also Fava bean) 12 Oct, Tracey in Melbourne (Australia - temperate climate)
Are there still flowers on your plants? If it has finished flowering then you won't get any more beans.
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Broad Beans (also Fava bean) 10 Oct, yvonne (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
My broadbeans have yealded a good crop . Do I pull the plant out or do I leave it there to yeald again?
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Broad Beans (also Fava bean) 27 Dec, (Australia - temperate climate)
leave a few pods on the bean plant until the plant shrivels and dies. Then collect the pods which will be black and shriveled and replant the seeds from these pods next year preferably in a different part of garden (for crop rotation)
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Spinach (also English spinach) 09 Oct, Donna (Australia - temperate climate)
I have a few mature (about 6 months old) spinach plants in my garden that have grown quite large. The leaves have started to get curly. What causes this? Now that the plants are larger they are a bit crowded, could this be the cause? Is it because summer is coming on and they are getting more sun? Not enough fertiliser/food???? Please help.
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Coriander (also Cilantro, Chinese parsley) 08 Oct, Diana (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
My nursery person said coriander doesn't like full sun in summer - grow it in shade. Doesn't mind the cold, even here in New england.
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Coriander (also Cilantro, Chinese parsley) 08 Oct, Robyn (Australia - temperate climate)
I live in Sydney. I have planted coriander before and it goes to seed really quickly, before I have had time to harvest even. How do I stop it from going to seed. I have just planted some in a pot. Thanks. Robyn
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Coriander (also Cilantro, Chinese parsley) 19 Oct, Kathy (Australia - temperate climate)
Another question is: are you planting proper leaf coriander, or the whole seeds from the supermarket? If you plant coriander seeds from the supermarket, it's bred to bolt to seed so they can harvest quicker. (I love coriander seed, so I just plant a bunch of supermarket stuff, generally get a few leaves, but mostly harvest the seed)
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Coriander (also Cilantro, Chinese parsley) 08 Oct, Tracey in Melbourne (Australia - temperate climate)
Are you planting in spring? Increasing day length and temps trigger flowering. I find coriander grows fantastically well if sown in late summer/autumn and grown through the winter. I can keep picking from the same plants for many, many months. The current lot are just starting to flower now. You should be able to do the same in Sydney w/o any trouble. If you are desperate to have it in summer all I can suggest is growing it in a cool shady spot and pick a variety listed as 'bolt-resistant'. But it will still probably go to seed quickly. And be aware that some varieties are intended to be grown for the seeds, not the leaves - definitely avoid those! Good luck : )
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Asparagus 08 Oct, trudy (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
I can attest to the compatability between pasley and asparagus. The parsley growing in and around the Asparagus beds - Asparagus is 3 years onle and the pasley self seeding after 2 years - is the healthiest and strongest of the parsely plantings that I have. (tas)
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Coriander (also Cilantro, Chinese parsley) 08 Oct, Trudy (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
I am growing coridander with my florence fennel without any problems. tastes fantastic and the fennel fronds has stopped it going to seed too early by shading it. The fennel bulbs are looking healthy and the first fennel bulb harvested tasted fine... almost ate it in the garden. Anyone know why they say not to grow together? perhaps it is not to be grown with the herb fennel?
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Sweet corn (also corn,maize) 08 Oct, Vanese (Australia - temperate climate)
When it says avoid growing with say tomatoes....how far away do you have to be? I have a small garden. Thank you
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Capsicum (also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers) 08 Oct, Chris (Australia - temperate climate)
can I just plant seeds straight to garden?
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Capsicum (also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers) 07 Oct, kelvan (Australia - temperate climate)
I really dont have a lot of produce from capsicums. Is Margaret River region W.A realy classed as temperate or cool mountain?
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Beetroot (also Beets) 07 Oct, Carms (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
You can use a few of the smaller younger leaves in salads but leave a few to keep growing. The older leaves can still be used but they get a bit tough as they get older.
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Fennel (also Bronze fennel) 05 Oct, Glenda (Australia - temperate climate)
I have planted fennel for the first time. Can you tell me when it is ready for picking?
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Tomato 04 Oct, justina (Australia - temperate climate)
This is the first time I'm planting tomatoes. How frequent do I fertilize the plant. i'm using instsnt-gro. the container said 2- 3 months.
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Tomato 31 Oct, Digger Dave (Australia - temperate climate)
Every year I plant a tomato plant in August (cover from frost), then plant a couple in October, I fertilize when I plant them with blood and bone and then again every two months, Last year the eary plant grew over nine feet tall and I had tomatos before christmas
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Tomato 18 Nov, ian (Australia - arid climate)
i always fertiilze every 10 to 12 days as you will always good growth and a healthy plant will always bear goood fruit or veg's
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Beetroot (also Beets) 04 Oct, laura (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
can we chop the leaves off and use them in a salad without killing the beetroot growing beneath?
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Rockmelon (also Canteloupe) 03 Oct, Shelly (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
I was told that if I plant rockmelons and watermelons in the same paddock that the watermelons will be distaughted and small due to cross pollination from the bees, is this so? If so, what is the desired distance to plant from each other?
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Rockmelon (also Canteloupe) 13 Nov, Tracey in Melbourne (Australia - temperate climate)
Hi Shelly, They won't cross. Both are in the family Cucurbitaceae but they are each in a different genus - rockmelons are genus Cucumis and watermelons are genus Citrullus. For future reference, with plants that *can* cross-pollinate (eg. different varieties within the same species), you would not see any effect in the fruit you pick - you would have to collect the seeds and grow them out and pick the fruit they produced. So unless you are saving seeds for future use, cross-pollination isn't an issue. Hope this helps.
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Choko/Chayote (also Chayote squash, christophene, chouchou, mirliton) 02 Oct, Shelly (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Last season we had an abundance of choko's. Use choko's as a replacement for apple pie. Cook choko as you would if stewing apples, great for apple crumble and apple pie. Choko's were often used this way during the war when apples were not available or too expensive. Try it you won't know the difference!!!
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Horseradish 01 Oct, Jen (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
I grow my hradish in deep pots and after harvesting and grating to preserve with AC vinegar etc it turned out very, very mild?? Not at all hot as I was expecting? Any idea's why?
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Horseradish 22 Jan, Peter (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Hi, if you want your horseradish to be hot, leave it for 2 years in the ground - the older it is the hotter it gets. It does become woody so grating it is a problem. Back in Russia we'd leave the root over winter and in spring it would regrow, then at the end of season its harvested. I'm not sure it would work in Australia unless where you live winter is frosty.
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Horseradish 23 Jan, Jen (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
Thank you Peter for your suggestion, I have not harvested my horseradish last autumn / winter as I still had jars preserved from the previous year..So it will suit my pantry very well to harvest in the 2nd year at the end of this year. Thanx
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