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Capsicum (also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers) 12 Jun, Wandy Robinson (Australia - sub-tropical climate): when the capsicum is rotten ho can we overcome that problem for the capsicum to free from disease?
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Garlic 11 Jun, James (Australia - temperate climate): I have planted this years garlic and have a few left to use until the new crop is ready but they are starting to shoot. How can I stop garlic from shooting in storage.
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Broad Beans (also Fava bean) 11 Jun, John Woodward (Australia - temperate climate): I also have broadbeans with curled leaves cannot find anything causing it. Seem to be growing OK but I don't know how they will go come time to flower.
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Peas 11 Jun, Matty (Australia - cool/mountain climate): could someone please tell me a to get a good crop peas?
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Parsnip 11 Jun, Matty (Australia - cool/mountain climate): Just harvested a great crop of parsnips, it helps to grow them in well drained soil, (keep the water up to them) and in raised garden beds are ideal.
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Parsley (also curly leaf parsley or flat leaf (Italian) parsley) 10 Jun, Bill44 (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Parsley are supposed to be a Bi annual but they have a mind of their own. To overcome this I raise seedlings and plant (2) every six months. Her inside would chuck a hissy fit if we ran out of flat leaf parsley.
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Pak Choy (also Pak choi) 10 Jun, Bill44 (Australia - sub-tropical climate): White fly and white butterfly's in general can be discouraged by growing sage throughout your garden, even better is marigolds but they tend to self seed and go everywhere. We started growing sage mixed in with everything else on the advice of the local nursery after losing a whole basil bush overnight to small white fly grubs.
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Thyme (also Common thyme) 08 Jun, Cheryl (Australia - sub-tropical climate): We've inherited a big thyme herb in our new house/kitchen garden. How long do they last for? Do they have a life span? I'm not sure how long it's been there for. It's been dying down but it's winter now.
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Thyme (also Common thyme) 13 Jun, hzprstn (Australia - temperate climate): I planted a thyme "shrubbery" alongside my driveway 25 yrs ago, and it still thrives. Every few years I cut it back well, every spring when it flowers it is covered in bees. In winter it looks pretty dead and dry - but in spring it is a delight. You can take cuttings too - handy if you want to have thyme in a different place in the garden, once you have striken ( ?) new plants you can put them where you want, and then remove the parent plant. Enjoy !
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Snow Peas (also Sugar Peas, Mangetout, Chinese Peas) 07 Jun, mick (Australia - cool/mountain climate): how long do snow peas take to grow?
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Snow Peas (also Sugar Peas, Mangetout, Chinese Peas) 30 Jun, Natalie (Australia - sub-tropical climate): 12-14 weeks
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Burdock (also Gobo (Japanese Burdock)) 07 Jun, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I have raised garden beds because my soil is stoney. Has anyone tried to grow burdock in bins? That sounds easy to get 90cm of sandy loam happening.
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Burdock (also Gobo (Japanese Burdock)) 08 Aug, Vicki (Australia - temperate climate): Hi,I have successfully grown burdock in raised garden beds here in Geelong. Just yesterday I harvested a root weighing a nice 1.7kg so if I can grow in here where it's cooler then anyone can
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Pumpkin 07 Jun, Shane (Australia - cool/mountain climate): I just moved into a house and the weeds had over grown after clearing out the garden I found a healthy butter nut pumkin vine however I accidently ripped up the roots when clearing it out I have reburried the roots but the vine is dieing how can save it?
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Pumpkin 16 Jun, Chris (Australia - cool/mountain climate): If the roots were torn then it's probably a lost cause. You could try copious watering to try and save it, but it's late in the season now for pumpkins, anyway.
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Potato 05 Jun, chris wilson (Australia - temperate climate): how dose one keep peeled uncooked spugs in the fridge / can they be keeped ln water/ if so for how long/ do you need to put anything in the water/ thanks chris
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Potato 06 Jun, (Australia - cool/mountain climate): You can keep raw, peeled potatoes for about a day if they are covered with water and kept cool.
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Pak Choy (also Pak choi) 05 Jun, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): The pak choi with all the holes in the leaves are most likley the white butterfly. They have been in plague proportions this year, the cold weather should see them go.
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Jerusalem Artichokes (also Sunchoke) 04 Jun, Lara (Australia - cool/mountain climate): These are very versatile.I make soup,saute,mash,boil them. I leave them in the ground in winter and dig up as I need them. Good if you have diabetes as has inulin (mimics insulin).
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Pak Choy (also Pak choi) 04 Jun, Chris@Gardenate (Australia - cool/mountain climate): Hi Prasadi, it means that you have let them grow a bit too long, and they might be a bit tough or strong flavoured. Usually you would pick pak choy before any flowers open. You can still try eating it - it might be ok.
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Garlic 03 Jun, FRANK MATTHEW (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I Have been been growing garlic for around 3 to 4 yrs,my garden is the western area sydney, my best advise is to add plently of compost, grass clippings and well rotted chiecken,horse or cow manure, do not water heavy in during coller months
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Pumpkin 03 Jun, pat (Australia - temperate climate): i grew my japs by just throwing the inside of pumpkins under some dirt. got heaps of pumpkins but not sure what to do after picking to ripen them.
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Pumpkin 20 Jun, johntone (Australia - temperate climate): Store the pumpkins for a few months in the shade and they should be ok to use for making chutney, jam, scones,bread etc.Mine seem to last for about 8 months after being picked.Any that get some withering,make some pumpkin soup.yum - yum!
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Broccoli 02 Jun, Leslie J Stout (Australia - cool/mountain climate): I have a question:Would anyone know if you can you get sick from eating Broccoli to late when it is about to flower,cheers Les
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Broccoli 07 Jan, Lily Flax (Australia - temperate climate): Yes you can eat the flowers and buds , the Chinese do! Taste lovely in salads and the flowers can be deep fried in batter
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Watermelon 01 Jun, Andrea (Australia - tropical climate): Watermelons are ready to be picked when there the patch on which they were sitting on the ground is white. I learnt this in a very very embarrassing way. I had a job picking melons a farm in Israel. There was an enormous melon lying temptingly in the field and we were all watching it and waiting for it to ripen. One day I knocked on it and heard this hollow sound and declared it was ready to pick. The boss went along with me (but knowing better). He let me open the melon. It was not ripe. It was white inside. Sweetish but simply not ripe. I learnt my lesson.
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Eggplant (also Aubergine) 01 Jun, Andrea (Australia - tropical climate): I've noticed that some people find cooking eggplants a little tricky. The mistake people often make is not to cook them long enough and they taste bitter and unpleasant. I used to cook them mainly in olive oil. But recently I've begun cooking an exclusively indian diet. I have some lovely recipes of eggplant in yoghurt curry (you should be able to find recipes on the web if interested and eat them served with basmati rice and other indian dishes). The point I wanted to make was that in my recipes, I've discovered that one can cook eggplants very well under the griller without oil as the first part of cooking. I believe this approach would transfer to any european style of cooking them as well. Simply cut the eggplant in half lengthwise, place it under the grill element with the skin side up. Cook until the soft and the skin starts to blister. Its about 15 minutes but check. After this you can finish off the cooking by frying it in oil with the rest of your ingredients and it shouldn't require as much oil as if you were cooking it from scratch in the frypan.
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Eggplant (also Aubergine) 08 Jun, Chris (Australia - cool/mountain climate): Hi, another thing which works well for indian-style recipes is to cook the eggplant in a steamer first, instead of frying it which so many recipes suggest but which soaks up tons of oil. After steaming then just fry briefly in a little oil to caramelise the surface, or just use as-is.
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Jerusalem Artichokes (also Sunchoke) 01 Jun, Andrea (Australia - tropical climate): Cooking tip: These are unbelievably delicious eaten when mashed half half with potatos. I am sorry they don't grow up where I live.
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Broad Beans (also Fava bean) 01 Jun, Candice bartels-waller (Australia - temperate climate): My beans are finished fo the year do I rip them out or will they re-produce beans nxt year?
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