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Potato 09 May, Stuart (Australia - temperate climate): Hi, I was wondering if there was another name for sweet potato as it doesn't seem to be in the seed list, thanks
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Potato 06 Jul, Eccles (Australia - temperate climate): Try "kumera".
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Potato 03 Jul, Tassy Michele (Australia - cool/mountain climate): Hiya Stuart, Sweet Potato can also be known as Kumara and sometimes (depending on your cultural background) yams. For further information check Wikipedia. Cheers
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Rosella (also Queensland Jam Plant, Roselle) 09 May, Desley Corbet (Australia - tropical climate): I usually plant seedlings in Sept/Oct. This year we had several weeks of continuous rain and although the plants grew I have not got much fruit from them to date. Now they are flowering but tend to be wilting from the top and will probably die. Can anyone give me a tip to correct the problem
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Broccoli 09 May, Lucy (Australia - cool/mountain climate): Dogs are great like that. I love my dog but she does get in the way of my gardening. I put a strip of gaffa tape over the top of the jar that I embed in the soil, that way my dog can't stick her snout in. I only fill the jar up half way too. I've always been very anti-poison, but because of Tassie's bumper winter rainfall and summer heat the slugs are terrible this year, so I stuck some bait in a takeaway container with a hole cut out in the side. That way the dog can't get to it and the soil isn't contaminated either. Mind you the slugs still exist, it just slows them down a little...
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Broccoli 30 May, Diana (Australia - temperate climate): I experimented with lemon or orange peelings last year and it helped with the snail and slug problem. I put the peelings inside a container near the veggie bed in the afternoon. Early next morning, many snail and slug in the container. Easy method to dispose them.
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Rosella (also Queensland Jam Plant, Roselle) 07 May, Sue (Australia - temperate climate): how do you get the seed out of the rosella fruit. When can you purchase a seed podder for them.
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Rosella (also Queensland Jam Plant, Roselle) 08 Jun, Manuela (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Hi Sue, Use an apple corer, it works really well. Push it through from the bottom up. Good luck, it makes beautiful jam and cordial.
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Garlic 03 May, Kim (Australia - temperate climate): Hello, just bought purple aswell as elephant garlic to plant. Apparently you shouldn't use a nitrogen rich seaweed fertilizer, but to use a pure seaweed fertilizer. Is this true? And I was told cow manure is better to use as it breaks down quicker than sheep manure? Thanks in advance!
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Rosella (also Queensland Jam Plant, Roselle) 02 May, Joy G (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I have a Rosella Bush growing and at present it is about 1.5mtr high and about the same in width, this is my first experience of growing one. It is absolutely covered in fruit, however I am not sure on how big they will grow before I am able to pick them. Could someone please advise me on this? thank you
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Rosella (also Queensland Jam Plant, Roselle) 08 Jun, Manuela (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Hi Joy, They can be harvested at any time, once the calyx has firmed. Some grow up to the size of a walnut, others hazelnut. And remove the seed with an apple corer, it's quite easy that way.
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Broad Beans (also Fava bean) 02 May, (Australia - temperate climate): My friend said that the best time to sow broad beans is when the moon is between a quarter to almost full. Is he right. Does the moon play a part when sowing crops? Any hints.
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Garlic 02 May, peter h (Australia - temperate climate): garlic suppliers - perth and south west LOCALLY GROWN GARLIC OUTLETS IN ALBANY WA Farmers Fresh Markets - at least three stalls AVeg - Sanford Road Reeves on Campbell - 27 Campbell Road. Solomon Merchants - Stirling St. LOCALLY GROWN GARLIC OUTLETS IN KALAMUNDA WA Delish - Kalamunda Shopping Centre NORTH PERTH: ORGANIC ON CHARLES, Charles St North Perth, just before Scarborough Beach Road.
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Rosella (also Queensland Jam Plant, Roselle) 01 May, liz hird (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I've grown some rosellas & they've flowered but would like to make rosella tea, needing ideas on drying successfully if anyone can help
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Rosella (also Queensland Jam Plant, Roselle) 15 May, Joy G (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Hi Liz, this a link to go to and you will find out how to dry rosella hips www.greenharvest.com.au/seeds/info_sheet/rosella_jam.html i hope this will help good luck joy G
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Carrot 01 May, Andre (Australia - temperate climate): Make sure the soil is firm and lay sand over or in the rows with seeds, then place a nice wet towel over the layer of sand and seed to keep the seeds moist. After about 5 days check if the seeds have germinated and if they have remove the towel and lightly water
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Carrot 02 May, Duncan (Australia - temperate climate): Hi Andre, I tried with a wooden board to keep the soil moist but it dried out too fast as the board got hot!! Your idea sounds better - I'll give it a go.
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Chives (also Garden chives) 30 Apr, Leigh (Australia - temperate climate): I wanted to plant some chives seedlings now, is it too late? and should I wait until after winter?
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Snow Peas (also Sugar Peas, Mangetout, Chinese Peas) 30 Apr, emily (Australia - sub-tropical climate): i like to start growing snow peas in melbourne but i am afraid that this time of year may be not good to grow, please tell me when is the right time to grow bec the weather is too cold. thank you.
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Snow Peas (also Sugar Peas, Mangetout, Chinese Peas) 30 Apr, (Australia - cool/mountain climate): Emily, you can plant some right now (April/May) in Melbourne
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Garlic 29 Apr, Michele (Australia - temperate climate): I have grown three crops of garlic, the first small but very tasty - laster about 3 months, well worth the initial investment.. It's best to use the largest cloves so you get a larger bulb. Make sure you have rich organic compost. This year I bought about 2 kilos of the best organic elephant garlic from my local food coop. It was grown locally so I expect it will be happy here. To save money plant it in a community garden with a group of people and share the cost and the yield.
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Brussels sprouts 28 Apr, mo power (Australia - sub-tropical climate): In England we used to buy brussel tops,and spring greens whitch were yummy, never seen them here, any comments or suggestions are they the product of brussels as the name suggests? I'm trying to grow brussels but not game to eat tops in case toxic.would love to hear from someone who knows,or had them in uk
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Brussels sprouts 12 Jun, pom (Australia - temperate climate): spring greens are the leafs off the brussels sprout plant cooked with a little vinegare yummy
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Brussels sprouts 25 Oct, Ruth-Barrington Tops (Australia - cool/mountain climate): re your spring greens, my girlfriend is english, together we searched for her favourite greens!!! and found Collards (www.edenseeds.com.au) and are have been continuosly harvesting the delicous tasty cabbage like greens, nothing to do with brussel sprouts, although in the same family cheers,Ruth
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Tomato 26 Apr, Robert (Australia - tropical climate): I have one long garden bed (6m x 1.5m) this year just set aside to grow tomatos. I have planted a variety of types, common to all nurseries. This year half of my plants have taken (part shaded end of the bed) and started to grow while the other half (full sun) last about 1 week before all the leaves wilt and the plant dies (Surprisingly quickly). I have just tested and adjusted the PH as I found that it was a little low, but not drastically, in the sunny end of the bed. I don’t know why my plants keep dying but I can’t keep replacing them. Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing my plants to die? The only think that is growing in the same bed, surprisingly well, are the basil and marigold plants. I grew tomato’s quite successfully last year but in a different position in the garden.
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Tomato 06 Jun, Ken (Australia - tropical climate): I have had this problem, and was told it was nematodes. I am now going to grow them in pots, in the dry and see how they go in the wet. I am 220 km down the track from Darwin. Good luck
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Tomato 23 May, (Australia - cool/mountain climate): @Robert, could the heat at the sunny end of the bed be 'cooking' the young plants? Have you tried shading some of them to see if it makes a difference to survival? Another possibility is some sort of fungus/virus/pest if you've grown tomatoes in the same bed previously. Maybe try a cover crop of some sort to disrupt the pests?
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Sunflower 26 Apr, Jennifer (Australia - temperate climate): I had a few questions about planting sunflowers; just by reading others' comments I now have the confidence to give it a go. Thank you so much for this site!
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Tomato 26 Apr, gary (Australia - cool/mountain climate): Leila, as far as I know tomatoes are annuals and should be pulled up in April/May after they finish producing. I've never heard of them growing again from the same plant, but you may get a stack self-seeding if fruit has fallen off.
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Tomato 24 Apr, Leila (Australia - temperate climate): I have had a few different varieties of tomatoes planted since august 09 and they have all done very well howver I am trying to find out do tomatoe plants only last one season or once they have died around winter time will they come back? My plants are all still green and alive at the moment and producing fruit still as well. Any help would be greatly appreciated :)
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