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Mint (also Garden mint) 25 Feb, Cynthia (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Something is feasting on mint in my garden and I am left with lots of holes. What may this be and what is an organic remedy. Until recently I have complained that it is growing like a weed.
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Mint (also Garden mint) 26 Feb, Mike (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Maybe an organic spray of soap, garlic and chilli. Look up Gardening Australia website (last weekends program has a story on it) or other websites to see.
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Garlic 24 Feb, Leonie (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Have just discovered your website, wow, it's fantastic!
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Sweet Potato (also Kumara) 24 Feb, Val Clark (Australia - temperate climate)
When is the best time to plant out the new growth from a tubar. I have a sweet potato that has sprung heaps of shoots. I'd like to put them into pots. Will they grow over winter in I keep them warm or am I wasting my time?
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Sweet Potato (also Kumara) 08 Mar, Mary (Australia - temperate climate)
I am in Adelaide -Temperate, and I leave mine in the ground over winter.
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Sweet Potato (also Kumara) 26 Feb, Mike (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Put them in the ground if you have a garden. Cover with some shade until they start to establish themselves. Sweet spuds are grown all year round in Bundaberg - 30-35 degrees in summer.
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Peas 23 Feb, Frank save (Australia - temperate climate)
hi I like to point out that temperate does not cover Sydney near airport, it should be called warm temperate, it makes a big difference, quoting suburbs also gives people an idea what will grow where,thank you
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Peas 02 Apr, matt (Australia - temperate climate)
You're kidding right Frank? Near Sydney airport is neither sub-tropical, nor cool/mountain. Temperate covers a lot of the Sydney basin just fine, and the rest comes down to your aspect and nuances of where you live.
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Peas 26 Feb, Mike (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
I have one website saying sub-tropical is all the way down to Sydney and another saying it stops just over the northern NSW border. Websites are only a guide.
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Peas 18 Aug, Jane (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Mike, yes. I was lead to believe that subtropical was from midway between Mackay and Rockhampton and extended into Nrthn NSW. However, as you say, 'Websites are only a guide', which is why I planted some things out of season (according to packets). For example, some people said eggplant won't grow here. It does.
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Broccoli 23 Feb, Marjorie (Australia - temperate climate)
Hi, one of my broccoli plants have a head already and we had cut the head off. Should I remove the plant now? thanks!
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Broccoli 26 Feb, Mike (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
You can let it develop small side shoots. Depends when you want to replant that area with new seeds/plants.
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Asparagus 21 Feb, Sandy (Australia - temperate climate)
Just bought a property with what was told is asparagras. seems to be all fern its Febuary. From what i hv read in previous posts you let the fern dye down & fertilize but when does it come back to harvest ?
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Asparagus 22 Feb, Mike (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Cut it back late winter and put compost/manure on it. Spears will start coming out in Sept. Pick spears until Nov and then let it go to fern again to let the plant build up for the following season.
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Cucumber 20 Feb, Jim (Australia - temperate climate)
What is the best variety to grow in the Bendigo area to make cucumber pickles (4-6kgs per batch)
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Cucumber 21 Feb, John (Australia - temperate climate)
We grow a variety called Biet Alpha and picked copious amounts of cucumbers off it. It is a more traditional green cucumber with bristle patches on the skin. The cucumbers were about 15-18 cm long but the size is certainly compensated by the yield.
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Cucumber 20 Feb, Mike (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Go to internet seed selling companies - Boondie Seed, Collection, New Life and look through the varieties there. You need a burping variety I have read.
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Strawberry Plants 20 Feb, Mario (Australia - temperate climate)
Hi, when the plant sends out a runner and that new plant attaches to ground, do you cut the runner in between the two plants?
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Strawberry Plants 20 Feb, Mike (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Yes - make sure it has established itself a bit first - a few leaves. That stops it taking from the older plant. Next year cut all the runners off before they establish - or start a new lot. After two crops of fruit plant new runners.
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Ginger 20 Feb, JOE TURNBULL (Australia - temperate climate)
Can i grow all year around or can i leave in the ground and it will reshoot ?
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Ginger 02 Mar, Hamsa (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
Harvest ginger once the leaves die that usually happens in winter and leave some with roots in the ground for next year harvest A gardener told me, if I needed ginger before harvest time, break the ginger from the side of the main plant
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Ginger 20 Feb, Mike (Australia - tropical climate)
I suggest you read the commenst here about growing and harvesting ginger - it has it all here.
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Watermelon 18 Feb, Lynn (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
I have tomatoes growing with a watermelon vine. The watermelon is doing well, but the tomatoes’ leaves are growing distorted. Does anyone know about interplanting these two crops? Should I pull the tomatoes out?
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Watermelon 20 Feb, Mike (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Tomato yellow leaf curl virus went through southern Qld back in 2009 or so. It has probably spread far wider by now. The leaf is like your hand with the fingers still curled in. The leaf doesn't open out and grow. The plant becomes stunted. Caused by the silver winged fly. Look it up on the internet. It can be stopped with a soap spray. If no success pull it out and put in rubbish bin. It wiped out the tomato growing industry in Bundaberg.
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Rosella (also Queensland Jam Plant, Roselle) 17 Feb, Mem (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Same problem with our rosellas. We're on Blackall Range Qld. Last year they flowered when they were tiny.
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Watermelon 16 Feb, david harris (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
had any one have black water melon seeds for sale -
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Watermelon 19 Feb, Mike (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Internet seed selling companies - Boondie is one. $1 for a few.
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Okra (also Ladyfinger, gumbo) 16 Feb, Anette (Australia - temperate climate)
Is it too late to sow okra seed in Adelaide?
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Okra (also Ladyfinger, gumbo) 19 Feb, Mike (Australia - temperate climate)
You are Temperate zone. It says plant by Jan - you can give it a try.
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Broccoli 15 Feb, Mike L (Australia - arid climate)
I am going to try planting broccoli in late Feb, its extremely hot here at the moment 42C. I just want to start early and plant every two weeks or so , semi commercial. Once spring comes, the diamond back moth comes out of the drying crops and is almost impossible to control. Any comments? any pointers?
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