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Zucchini (also Courgette/Marrow, Summer squash) 09 Jan, Amber (Australia - temperate climate)
Me too, Kate! I'm in Trigg and experiencing the exactly the same with my zucchini plants. I was told that my problem is a lack of bees for cross pollination between the male ans female flowers...
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Zucchini (also Courgette/Marrow, Summer squash) 25 Jan, paul (Australia - temperate climate)
to hand pollinate: get a small soft paint brush, open the male flower gather pollen on brush then open female flower and light coat on the bit inside, you have now pollinated your zuchinni it should only take a couple of days to watch the zuchis grow, amazing!
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Zucchini (also Courgette/Marrow, Summer squash) 17 Jan, Vera (Australia - temperate climate)
Try watering your zucchini from underneath and don't wet the leaves or plant as this makes them rot
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Horseradish 04 Jan, Józef (Australia - temperate climate)
After a trip to Poland in 2007 and 2009 I've grown to love horseradish. You can't buy it strong enough here so I want to grow my own or hope to buy some. I live in Sydney, Ryde area. Dziękuje
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Horseradish 07 Jun, Laszlo (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Love the horseradish.Bought some recently, how do you keep it fresh?
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Cape Gooseberry (also Golden Berry, Inca Berry ) 04 Jan, Melody (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
I live in Queensland- Brisbane northside and would like to get hold of some seeds or a seedling. Does anyone know where I can locate some close-by?? Thanks, Mel.
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Cape Gooseberry (also Golden Berry, Inca Berry ) 11 Jan, jamie (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Hi there Melody, i live in petrie..and have some seedlings of the golden gooseberry.
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Cape Gooseberry (also Golden Berry, Inca Berry ) 01 Jun, geoffrey (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
i would like to try and grow some do you have address where we can contact supplier or post seed po box 243 gayndah qld 4625 thanks in advance and we will reinbust you
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Cape Gooseberry (also Golden Berry, Inca Berry ) 01 Feb, Melody (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Great, Jamie am I able to have some please?! If so where from in Petrie? I remember eating these on my grandparents farm in WA.
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Luffa (also Loofah, plant sponge) 03 Jan, bella (Australia - temperate climate)
Hi, I have some seeds if you would like them?
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Luffa (also Loofah, plant sponge) 02 Aug, William Stanley (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Hi Bella If you have some spare Luffa seeds I would love to grow some as I love new and exciting projects in the garden If you can send me some I will send you some .60cent stamps as payment. [email protected] Cheers William.
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Luffa (also Loofah, plant sponge) 24 Feb, Louise (Australia - tropical climate)
Hi Bella I am very interested in buying Loofa seeds from you are you able to sell me some? Kind regrds Louise
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Luffa (also Loofah, plant sponge) 09 Feb, Jenny Nye (Australia - tropical climate)
I'd love some seeds if you still have some available. How much do you want for them? Many thanks!!
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Luffa (also Loofah, plant sponge) 29 Jan, Huan (Australia - temperate climate)
yes please, 2/1 Woods Ave, Mordialloc, VIC 3195 Many thanks!
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Okra (also Ladyfinger, gumbo) 03 Jan, Katie S (Australia - temperate climate)
We planted okra seeds into seedling trays in sept 2010. Now that they are in the ground and about knee height maybe 50cm they are producing fruit. We are unsure as to whether to take off some of the lower leaves and buds or just leave it all on there. The plants just dont seem to look right. But as we are beginners with okra we're not sure. Any feedback would be appreciated. Also do ants eating the flowers cause the pods to be bent?
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Capsicum (also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers) 02 Jan, Sharon (Australia - temperate climate)
I have tried growing capsicums for the last 2 years, from seedlings. There has been plenty of growth with many flowers which progress to small fruit. The problem is that the fruit falls off when very small. The largest was about 5cm but most are much smaller. I notice that the junctions near the stem often go black. Any suggestions what might be wrong? Thanks
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Capsicum (also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers) 20 Feb, Nel Ward (Australia - temperate climate)
I have a problem with my capsicums, the plants look healthy and the capsicums look fine untill they are about the average size when they start to rot. Rotting starts at the stalk end, not the blossom end. I can not detect any fruit fly either. Not sure what is wrong here, use my own compost, water plants well etc. does anyone have antpy idea what the cause might be? Also have trouble growing tomatoes the last few years. All is well when early December they seem to succumb to some sort of wilting disease, very frustrating, and i think it happens with windy weather. I use crop rotation and make sure both capsicums and tomatoes are not grown in same bed as previous years.
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Capsicum (also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers) 03 Apr, Jayce (Australia - temperate climate)
Hi, I had the same problem this yr with my capsicum. Found out almost too late they like a good feed of potash which encourages flowers and in turn fruit. Since giving the caps and my bush tomatoes potash they have gone quite mad with flowers and fruit. My fingers are now crossed that there will be enough warmish weather here n Melbourne that they ripen, same situation with the bush tomatoes. If the latter do not ripen I have a great recipe for green tomato chutney and I'm sure I will find a recipe to suit the caps even if they are tiny. Good luck with your capsicums, if not this year then next yr for sure!
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Leeks 02 Jan, Chris Morton (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
My leeks have started to develop seed heads. At the same time they are also producing little bulbs off the side of the main bulb in the soil. These bulbs will be very numerous and can (I think) be used to produce the next season's crop. This assumption is based on how we have used the many bulbs found growing in the vegie garden we have inhertited. Are these normal leeks? Do people normally use these bulbs to produce the next crop? Would love to know more about growing leeks.
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Leeks 27 Apr, Peter (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
We bought three leeks from a fruit shop a few years ago. I took the pups off and planted them ,3 years later we had at least 3 rows and were sick to death of eating them. We did grow some more about a year later but have never come across this suckering type since.
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Leeks 21 May, Mukluk (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
It sounds like you had a perennial leek (also known as multiplyer leek). They easily grow from pups/offshoots and do not often set viable seed. That is the variety that I currently grow as they are simple and if I forget about them will look after themselves. I like perennial vegetables as I do not have to worry about saving seed and possible hybridisation.
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Beetroot (also Beets) 02 Jan, steve brown (Australia - temperate climate)
A light application of boron at sowing stage will produce the healthiest and tastiest beetroot you have ever grown.This is best done by dissolving about a teaspoon of boron in a watering can of water and then applying
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Beetroot (also Beets) 14 Jan, Mal Douglas (Australia - temperate climate)
Where can you buy boron? Mal.
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Beetroot (also Beets) 16 Jan, Pete (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
You can buy Boron in the supermarket as Borax - about $5 for a box. ( Borax is very toxic, so keep out of reach of children - Liz)
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Luffa (also Loofah, plant sponge) 02 Jan, Huan (Australia - temperate climate)
I know it has been a while you said you had some Luffa seeds, if you stilll have them,would love some.thanks heaps! (address removed for security- Liz)
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Okra (also Ladyfinger, gumbo) 31 Dec, Patricia (Australia - temperate climate)
Hi I live in WA is it too late to plant Okra seed now Jan 2011 Thankyou
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Silverbeet (also Swiss Chard or Mangold) 31 Dec, Paul Stothard (Australia - temperate climate)
My mother has some silver beet in the garden which she has been harvesting on a cut and come again basis. Most of the plants have recently started seeding. She would like to know whether the leaves can still be harvested and eaten
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Silverbeet (also Swiss Chard or Mangold) 01 Jan, Elizabeth (Australia - temperate climate)
Yes you can continue to harvest and eat the leaves. Now that it's seeding though once you've harvested this last lot of leaves off you might as well pull out the plant as it won't be producing leaves now.
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Silverbeet (also Swiss Chard or Mangold) 30 Jan, Alison (Australia - temperate climate)
It says on the page above, that if you cut off the plant at the base once it goes to flower, it will regrow, so maybe you don't need to pull the whole plant out?
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Salsify (also Vegetable oyster) 31 Dec, (Australia - temperate climate)
where can i find this in australia
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