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Chilli peppers (also Hot peppers) 30 Jun, KAiki (Australia - temperate climate)
Can I grow chilli in a pot inside the house in winter?
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Chilli peppers (also Hot peppers) 05 Jul, Bill44 (Australia - temperate climate)
If you want to use chilli's during the winter months it's best to pickle some of the crop before they finish. This is what I do and have year round supply.
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Snow Peas (also Sugar Peas, Mangetout, Chinese Peas) 29 Jun, Natalie (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
pretty sure peas get most of their nutrients from the air. they don't like heavily composted ground I believe. I wouldn't use commercial fert. but some worm juice might be okay. avoid watering leaves. adding potash to soil before sowing is good as well.
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Snow Peas (also Sugar Peas, Mangetout, Chinese Peas) 28 Jun, Jane (Australia - temperate climate)
When growing snow peas do you need to fertilise them?
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Celeriac 27 Jun, Chris (Australia - temperate climate)
I bought my seeds from the Italian Gardener. The plants are lush and healthy and I am using the fronds as celery but the root bulbs have not developed (been in ground now 24 weeks). I suspect that the soil was not sufficiently rich in compost etc.
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Peas 27 Jun, andrea (Australia - tropical climate)
Would it be too much to ask that you add something to the vegetables growing details. I wish you could add the type of bug or disease that bothers them and how to deal with them organically. I came across a site that identified the problems but gave no treatment which seemed to me to be rather pointless.
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Rosella (also Queensland Jam Plant, Roselle) 27 Jun, Graham Horrocks (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
After fruiting is over, do i cut bush back or remove all together.
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Rosella (also Queensland Jam Plant, Roselle) 26 Jun, Anne meguyer (Australia - temperate climate)
I live in a coastal belt at Port Stephens. Where can I obtain plants to grow same? I grew up in Qld so recall them being grown there. No one round here seems to know of them. Thank You. Anne
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Brussels sprouts 24 Jun, (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
my brussels sprouts have grown beautifully and I couldn't stop from harvesting a few large green leaves and shreading them - lightly steaming and enjoying them as another 'vegie". No sign of sprouts on the stem yet and plants are about 30cm high and vigorously healthy--the centre seems to be loosely forming into a "little cabbageish head", should I pick this to promote sprouts forming on stem or would this be not a good idea----HELP---I havn't grown these before.
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Brussels sprouts 20 Mar, (Australia - temperate climate)
apparently ive heard if you cut the top of the plant dies unsure just let them grow naturally
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Brussels sprouts 30 Jun, Paul (Australia - temperate climate)
I'm in exactly the same boat except mine are half your size. mine are doing the same thing. I gently peeled it back and saw another yellow leaf forming. I'm pretty sure it's the start of a sprout. As this is my 1st attempt as well.....my theory is let it grow and see what happens (I'll still "stake" it for support) Then have a better understanding with my next batch
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Coriander (also Cilantro, Chinese parsley) 24 Jun, Julie Lake (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
Re Ashley and Coriander - glad I could be of help. I alternate it with Vietnamese mint as a summer herb because it has a similar flavour and can be grown through the hot, wet season.
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Cauliflower 21 Jun, Julian (Australia - temperate climate)
Hi I planted my Cauli's in March and have only this week picked two but the others even though the leaves are over 21/2 feet long have no centre's as yet what am I doing wrong and doesn't that seem a long time?
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Yam/Oca (also Oka) 20 Jun, Dave (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
I have just harvested a crop of yellow/orange yams.Can any-one tell me how best to keep the small one's that we use as seed for the next crop as we live in Tasmania and we are coming into the cold months and we get temps in the minus's. Thanks Dave
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Yam/Oca (also Oka) 03 Apr, Garth (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
Hi Dave, I am an ex NZer living in tasmania and haven,t had a good feed of yams in ages.Saw your comment and wondered if you might have some extra yams i could have or know where i could get access to some in tasmania so i could harvest my own Thanks Garth.
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Yam/Oca (also Oka) 26 Jul, Fiona (Australia - temperate climate)
Hi just purchased a kilo of yummy yams from the Aproneers in Hobart. I hope I can restrain myself from eating them all and perhaps plant a couple. :-). So happy to see them in a shop! Having a kiwi week just purchased a box of feijoas and now yams- all I need now is some Hokey Pokey ice cream....
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Yam/Oca (also Oka) 12 Jul, Paula (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
Does anyone know where I can get yam/Oca tubers to grow in tasmania
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Garlic 20 Jun, Andre (Australia - temperate climate)
Soak garlic cloves in natrakelp with water and bi carb soda over night. In the morning take off the the old skin and rub the cloves with alcohol and then plant.
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Peas 20 Jun, Andre (Australia - temperate climate)
Don't forget to not let the new planted seeds to get too wet just after you plant. Try and keep them away from a lot of water until the little green growth starts coming thru the soil like broad beans
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Capsicum (also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers) 20 Jun, steve (Australia - temperate climate)
hi when are purple capsicums ready? and do they turn red thanks steve
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Capsicum (also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers) 02 Jul, John Bee (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Steve, normally purple, and other colored capsicums change from the green color to the expected color (purple in your case) as the seeds inside start to mature. This coincides with the green chlorophyll color breaking down and the purple color pigments dominating. However I notice you are in a temperate climate in Australia (which means winter and hence quite cool) so that final change to purple may take forever and they may even get fruit rots before that happens. (being so cool). So, my suggestion is to harvest them green now and during winter, and as the weather warms up in spring then let them mature to the full purple color. They should not turn red as they are purple capsicums. If they do turn red then maybe you have the normal red capsicum and not the purple one. Cheers, John.
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Capsicum (also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers) 04 Mar, marcus (Australia - temperate climate)
Hi all we have green capsicum grown from seed. For some reason the capsicums are turning brown or rotten on the bush before falling off. Any idea why? Or how i can fix this please
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Capsicum (also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers) 19 Jun, Vivienne (Australia - temperate climate)
We are growing capsicums, black, and green, and the problem we have is that the fruit is going soft and rotten before they get to maturity, most of them are about the size of a roma tomato, and even smaller, when they are getting spots on them of rotting. What can I do?
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Broad Beans (also Fava bean) 18 Jun, JC (Australia - temperate climate)
What do you mean by pick the tops out?
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Broad Beans (also Fava bean) 19 Jun, (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
It means to pick off the top-most shoots so the plant stops growing upwards.
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Chinese cabbage (also Wong bok, wong nga pak, napa cabbage) 18 Jun, Diana Adelaide (Australia - temperate climate)
Growing Wong Bok for the first time.It grows more faster than normal cabbage. I wonder if I have to tie around the veggie for obtaining firm compact leaves.
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Rocket (also Arugula/Rucola) 18 Jun, john langford (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
like you cheryl, my rocket is extremely bitter ... can't find any comments about this ... am sure our 'bitter' is not the same as 'peppery' ... john, sunshine coast qld
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Rocket (also Arugula/Rucola) 19 Jun, (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
A bit more watering might reduce the bitterness. Most leafy things go bitter if they ever get stressed by heat or lack of water.
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Artichokes (Globe) 17 Jun, Steven (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Can i grow globe artichoke in alkiline clay soil in north-western australia? please help..
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Artichokes (Globe) 18 Apr, Chris (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
They really prefer a sandy soil and will struggle in clay. You could load it up with gypsum (clay-breaker) and they might survive.
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