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Sweet corn (also corn,maize) 01 Oct, grace (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
beans not peas, they are a summer crop.
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Sweet corn (also corn,maize) 20 Sep, Liz (New Zealand - temperate climate)
Perhaps growing climbing beans with corn would work?
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Rockmelon (also Canteloupe) 19 Sep, Mark (Australia - temperate climate)
A couple weeks ago (early september) I planted some Rockmelon seeds in a seed tray and most have come up. At how many weeks should I put them in the ground? I have about 10 seedlings going. How many fruite would I be expecting per plant.
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Leeks 19 Sep, sarah (Australia - temperate climate)
I grow leeks every year and mound them up as they grow to blanch the flesh. with the soil from each slide of the row and straw on top, so they end up on a ridge with the trench down the side. I water in the trench when required. I dont seem to have trouble with them going to flower and only finished harvesting last years crop a month ago. Now planting the next lot. Delicious, blanched wrapped in ham and then topped with a cheese sauce and a crumb topping in the oven.
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Rosella (also Queensland Jam Plant, Roselle) 18 Sep, Sandra Watt (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Do they self pollinate?
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Tomato 18 Sep, (Australia - arid climate)
Hi collegues, Do you know any USA quarantine insect pests of tomato? Looking forward to getting your ideas Theo
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Watermelon 17 Sep, Suzette (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Can you please advice how much watering each of the following veges/herbs need: Pumpkins Watermelons Rockmelons Basil Parsley Thank you
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Cauliflower 16 Sep, Jack (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
I too are having trouble getting my cauliflowers to head. They were planted in May. What should I be feeding them with?
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Broad Beans (also Fava bean) 13 Sep, Monsi (Australia - temperate climate)
Hi, Frist time chance upon your site-very infomative, Thank You. I am a new gardener. My beans are looking healty and massive of flowers but they dried out. Shall I pinch the top new leaf to encourage growth of flowers into beans? Please help. Thanking you in advance and kind regards, Monsi
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Broad Beans (also Fava bean) 14 Mar, kennykoala (Australia - temperate climate)
yes pinch of tops you will find beans behind flowers
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Parsnip 11 Sep, angela seeckts (Australia - temperate climate)
Strange shaped parsnips and in the same garden bed, cauliflowers with leaves only. Can you tell me why?
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Parsnip 12 Jul, Yuri (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
Too much nitrogen
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Parsnip 13 Sep, Kit (Australia - temperate climate)
My parsnips are a little undersized but ok. My Cauliflowers are leaves only as well. Anyone got any ideas? -Kit Houston
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Parsnip 18 Jan, Derek (Australia - temperate climate)
Sounds likes excess nitrogen. Carrots and parsnip will split and deform with a lot of nitrogen in soil. Fruit/flowering plants including cauliflowers will produce a lot of foliage with nitrogen. Try to reduce heavy nitrogen based fertiliser for fruiting, flowering and root veg.
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Beetroot (also Beets) 09 Sep, krystalbuzz (Australia - temperate climate)
Can you grow beetroot from the tops?
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Beetroot (also Beets) 16 Jun, gardenmad (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
I was just trying to find out the same thing! No luck with an answer yet? I have planted some tops and they are looking good, don't know if they will develop a root though. I will keep a look out on this site.
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Chilli peppers (also Hot peppers) 06 Sep, Sylvia Borg (Australia - arid climate)
I have a shrub of hot chillies I was wondering if I can trimming down?
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Potato 04 Sep, Mark Thornton (Australia - temperate climate)
We live on the NSW south coast. As we are new to gardening, the question is, Can we produce a year around crop of potatoes? If so, which varieties do you plant when?
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Potato 30 Oct, Bruce (Australia - temperate climate)
You should be able to grow almost any variety of spuds all year so long as you don't have frosts.
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Broad Beans (also Fava bean) 03 Sep, kathy anne greer (Australia - temperate climate)
I have beautiful broad beans growing ,they are flowering and look lovely but I have never grown them before and I keep looking for something, How do they become beans and from what? Is it the flower itself? , I know I seem silly but I do not know what to look for ... ha, ha apart from beans that is! thankyou kathy
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Broad Beans (also Fava bean) 05 Sep, Michelle (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
Yes, the beans come from the flowers. Keep an eye on them - you will notice a little tiny pod that looks like a pea pod coming from the bottom of the flower as it withers. The pods then grow quite fast. They are ready to pick whenever you are ready to eat them. You can actually pick them early (when ther are the size of your pinkie finger) and cook them whole as you would with green beans. However most people pick them when they are the thickness of a thumb, and about 2 times the length of a thumb, or even bigger (you will get bigger beans). Split open the pod, and extract the beans. They should look white. Blanch them for a minute in boiling water, and the white skin on the outside will go wrinkly. It's a simple matter of popping the green beans out of the white skins, and you are ready to eat them, or cook with them further. They are lovely in frittatas and risotto. Once the harvest is over, you can cut up the plants and plough them back into the soil as compost, or simply add them to your compost heap. That way the plant is useful twice. Good luck!
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Okra (also Ladyfinger, gumbo) 03 Sep, Mohan (Australia - temperate climate)
What is the right type of soil, I mean the pH for growing OKRA
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Okra (also Ladyfinger, gumbo) 24 Apr, Madut Liai (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
I live in Cranbourne East Victoria_ Melbourne Australia. I would like to grow up okra is our family favor food would you please help me to have a plan in my backyard. Thank you Madut Liai
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Potato 02 Sep, Cygnetian (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
Hi, I'm in country Southern Tasmania and have never grown potatoes before. Does anyone know whether the plants need to be fenced off from the wildlife? (Here we have mostly possums and paddemelons.) Thanks!
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Potato 23 Nov, Lucky Phil (Australia - temperate climate)
It would be better to fence them off. We have a hen who likes to dig for worms, so we fenced off our potato patch. The possums will probably eat the leaves, and other wildlife may dig the freshly turned soil for worms. We have possum trouble with one of our roses.
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Potato 29 Dec, Karl (Australia - temperate climate)
I live in country Northeast Tassie and have sucessfully grown potatos without fencing them off from wildlife such as possums an pademelons. In fact spotlighting at night I have never seen any sign of wildlife amongst my spuds, nor any browsing damage done to the foliage. I have noticed that snakes seem to particularly enjoy slithering amongst the crop.
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Broad Beans (also Fava bean) 01 Sep, Monty (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
I have small brown grubs/caterpillars (approx. 10mm) burrowing into my broad beans. Does anyone know what they are and more importantly how to get rid of them organically. I have picked off the affected pods. Would Dipel work on these grubs? Thanks.
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Broad Beans (also Fava bean) 09 Feb, gary (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
Dipel should be fine to use on them.
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Rosella (also Queensland Jam Plant, Roselle) 01 Sep, Barb (Australia - arid climate)
Hi Dorothy, You can buy Rosella seed online from Green Harvest in Australia. Maybe there is a US online source too.
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Mustard greens (also gai choy) 29 Aug, Mike Chard (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
The Reject Shop sells seeds - I bought Mustard Greens seeds for only a couple of dollars and they grew fantastic!
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