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Rosella (also Queensland Jam Plant, Roselle) 08 Jun, Manuela (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Hello Maiju, The Rosella plant is a beautiful dark red bush, and lovely dark pink flowers which turn into an edable fruit. The fruit makes beautiful jam and cordial (cordial is syrup like fluid which is mixed with water). You can Google Rosella receipies or Rosella Bush, which should give you fotos of it. This might help you further in fiding out about this plant. The Bush only bears fruit once, and needs to be cut out and a new one re-grown. All the best and greetings to the North, hope your summer arrives soon.
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Florence Fennel (also Finocchio) 24 Apr, Jane (Australia - temperate climate): @ Janet You may have planted the wrong kind of fennel There are two kinds. Florence Fennel produces the bulb at the bottom and Bronze Fennel just goes to seed and is usually grown for the seeds or the feathery leaves. Bronze fennel is the one that grows along the sides of the roads (feral) in many parts of Australia.
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Pumpkin 22 Apr, (Australia - tropical climate): Natasha, have you tried Steve's tip above - maybe clip the shoots so the plant puts more energy into fruiting?
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Asparagus 22 Apr, Chris (Australia - tropical climate): bec, horse manure is notorious for containing lots of seeds which will sprout and grow if used in a garden. It's a great way to introduce weeds - I write from bitter experience! It needs to be thoroughly composted so the heat destroys the seeds before applying.
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Asparagus 10 Jul, (Australia - temperate climate): You couldnt have said it any better....I too thought horse poop was a good thing until I seen how many weeds I was pulling out of my vegie patch.
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Asparagus 03 May, Selina (Australia - tropical climate): Yes agree also. I had a similar terrible experience with horse manure myself and still paying for it. Is cow manure better? I've heard that you don't get the weeds because they have more than one stomach.
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Asparagus 09 Oct, pete (Australia - sub-tropical climate): i use horse manure without problems, however having said that i get it from a trotting stable where the trainer only feeds his horses on rice based horse feed. If you collect it from a paddock it will contain weed and grass seeds. as for cow manure - its much better because they have two stomacs and regurgitate and chew their cud breaking down the food much better than a horse can.
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Cardoon 22 Apr, Chris@Gardenate (Australia - cool/mountain climate): Carmen, you probably can't/shouldn't grow cardoon in Australia as it's considered an invasive weed. It's a registered weed in NSW. Not sure about other states.
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Broccoli 22 Apr, mankimbo (Australia - temperate climate): For slugs & snails a small jar buried to its top in the ground half filled with lite beer works best.You can then use the reamins as fertilzer for the bed. If you can't be bothered grinding up soap you can buy Lux Flakes that everyone used to wash their baby clothes in which you can then mix up with boiling water and dilute with cold water. Throw in some garlic, lemon and chilli, marinate over night, strain and water. You can't go wrong (hopefully).
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Broccoli 05 May, (Australia - cool/mountain climate): Only problem is the dog drinking/eating the beer/slug/snail mix. Clearly too tasty!
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Lettuce 22 Apr, Tara (Australia - temperate climate): I have planted some fancy mixed salad plants in a pot, 2 of the 6 died, but the other 4 look healthy but the leaves feel quite soggy rather than crisp, any reason for this? also when i water them the seem to flop even more and are better the next day. Do i just harvest the outside leaves slowly and will it re-grow?
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Pumpkin 21 Apr, Natasha (Australia - temperate climate): I had two pumpkin vines grow out of the compost around december in which they are nice and healthy looking vines now and they both started to flower over a month ago. Every morning I check to see if any of the female flowers are opening in which I would then hand pollinate with a few male flowers. Although I have been trying to hand pollinate each female flower, they do not seem to continue to grow. The female fruit just withers and dies off without any progress in size. Can anyone give any advice? Thanks!
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Potato 20 Apr, martin cook (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Hi, im in townsville i had some good yield when i used potatoes sprout im trying to get seeds but im having no luck do you know how i get seeds hear thanks.
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Basil 20 Apr, tony (Australia - temperate climate): bridget, sounds like the basil is just going to the flowering stage?? maybe you planted it / bought it a bit late in the season. you can extend the growing phase by cutting / breaking off the stems just below the transistion / flowering growth . . . but you have probably discovered this already ... its not rocket science :). Once the basil plants die, you can take them out, hang them up, and in early spring just shake the plant and rake seeds into damp soil. Hey presto...nature provides us with pesto.
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Sunflower 19 Apr, C lee (Australia - temperate climate): Stephen sunflowers wont react too good if u transplant so i would recommend just pulling out the weakest ones and letting the strong ones live.
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Coriander (also Cilantro, Chinese parsley) 18 Apr, Chris@Gardenate (Australia - cool/mountain climate): I've updated the recommended planting dates based on everyone's advice for sub-tropical regions. Thanks!
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Carrot 18 Apr, Jacki (Australia - tropical climate): I am in Darwin and planted carrots in the dry season when its around 15degrees at night and morning and up to 24 or 25 degrees in the day, when i had harvested my carrots they were all tops and no roots, the thickest i got was less than a centimeter wide, i left the rest in and they didnt get any larger. Is it too hot where i live? My nana told me she had the same problem with carrots growing too.
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Beans - dwarf (also French beans, Bush beans) 18 Apr, Heck (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I have planted dwarf beans for the third time and once again as they reach a height of about 20 cm the stalks go brown and become very soft and the leaves turn yellow and the plant falls over and karks it. I don't think I'm over watering them but we have had a lot of rain of late. I need help please
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Beans - dwarf (also French beans, Bush beans) 28 Apr, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Maybe bean fly (see comment below from brian)
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Beans - dwarf (also French beans, Bush beans) 27 Apr, (Australia - cool/mountain climate): It sounds like too much water. Are you growing them in a raised bed to improve drainage?
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Burdock (also Gobo (Japanese Burdock)) 18 Apr, Sue (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I would like to know where can i buy this burdock roots. I live in Brisbane and i don't know where to get it. Thank you
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Asparagus Pea (also Winged pea) 17 Apr, Maria (Australia - temperate climate): I have been searching where to buy asparagus peas seeds, any idea where to get them I live in Adelaide
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Asparagus Pea (also Winged pea) 10 Sep, Rosi (Australia - temperate climate): I bought mine at Bunnings
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Cabbage 17 Apr, Brian Palfreyman (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Sorry Annalisa 18/sept 09 Ii ve in Caboolture ,theres no way cabbages grow well in the summer months in Brizzie,way to hot,and any that do survive 30-35oc go to seed real quick
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Beans - dwarf (also French beans, Bush beans) 17 Apr, brian palfreyman (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Soon after the bean sprouts comes out of the ground they need to be sprayed against the bean fly which stings the newly exposed stalk and lays eggs in the stalk and a grub developes which eats the inside of the stalk and the plant dies I spray mine as soon as the bean emerges from the ground and get a good crop,if I forget to spray them I loose them
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Beans - dwarf (also French beans, Bush beans) 22 May, dan (Australia - tropical climate): can you tell me the name of the spray to use as we have the same problem.
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Onion 17 Apr, Chris (Australia - cool/mountain climate): Fritz - a cool place for storing onions is in a bottom cupboard or similar. Anywhere that doesn't get hot. They tend to go mouldy in a fridge
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Beetroot (also Beets) 16 Apr, (Australia - cool/mountain climate): @anna, I would slice the beetroot thinly and put them in a low oven (120C) until dry enough - or use a dehydrator
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Lettuce 16 Apr, Rob (Australia - temperate climate): My COS lettuce is booming - growing really thick really quick with lots of leaves. much better than my attempt to grow it in summer, where it shot up had a tall stem, seeded and few leaves.
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Garlic 15 Apr, emily (Australia - sub-tropical climate): i like to grow garlic but i don't know when is the right time because i live in melbourne.
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