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Pumpkin 01 Feb, paul polglase (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I have planted pumpkin seeds from last years plants every little bit of space I can find in my yard this summer, plants are coming up everywhere and noticed the first pumpkins growing and looking very healthy. I was wondering if I can put a illtle bit of chicken manure around each plants base, as I think it,s the best thing to add to the garden, but away from the stems to give them areal kick in the guts?
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Pumpkin 03 Feb, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate): You should have done this in preparing the soil before planting the seeds. You need composted manure. Fresh manure won't do much for weeks until it is composted. Your plants will tell you how they are going. Good strong green looking plants don't need a good kick in the guts. Pale yellow weak plants do not have enough fertiliser.
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Rockmelon (also Canteloupe) 31 Jan, John Davis (Australia - temperate climate): What is the best method to test ripeness of a rocky. Cheers
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Rockmelon (also Canteloupe) 03 Feb, Another gardener (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Old varieties use to start turning yellow and they came away from the vine easily. The new varieties don't. They will probably turn a bit of a different colour but if you press around the butt end of the melon it will go inwards like a sponge. Release it and it will come back out. Another clue is to keep a record of when you plant and be guided by the time from planting to maturity or about 45 days after the melon has grown to full size.
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Rockmelon (also Canteloupe) 02 Feb, Frank (Australia - temperate climate): I've never had them in the garden, I've just chosen some seeds in a few weeks back and I'm now getting melons, probably a bit late but, see what happens When I test them in the shop, I look for one that is an orange to yellow colour and tap it gently if it (sounds hollow it is ripe)
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Rockmelon (also Canteloupe) 04 Feb, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate): There are many different kinds of melons in the world but the ones we call rock melons in Qld use to grow green and turn yellow when ripening. The new varieties the commercial growers grow are green and they stay green. They are grown to suit the supermarkets, size, transportability and shelf life. Very hard when to know when to pick them. A grower told me 85 days after planting he picks, that is in the spring. If you look on the web for melons you will find a site with 25 different kinds.
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Capsicum (also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers) 29 Jan, Fran Scott (Australia - temperate climate): Hi, Our capsicum plants are loaded with fruit and are flowering profusely. To increase the size of the fruit do we thin the fruit or just let them keep growing. Thank you any advice will be appreciated.
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Capsicum (also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers) 30 Jan, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I would suggest you stake and support the plants. You probably could do both, leave all flowers on some and trim others. Good watering and fertilising will produce good size fruit.
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Coriander (also Cilantro, Chinese parsley) 26 Jan, Adam (Australia - temperate climate): -- sounds a very good idea, but I don't' have huge garden so basically I know what I am growing. I just grow what I like to eat. ( I wish if I can grow some chicken and meat but yah doesn't work this way) . well, they are very big parsley seed. they look like parsley seeds but they are probably 3 times as big. I will sow them next week and see in a few months what are they if they ever grow. ---------------
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Coriander (also Cilantro, Chinese parsley) 27 Jan, Another gardener (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Gardening throws up many different things at us. The thing is to think about it from a different angle. All you can do is what you say, try planting them. I just tried planting seeds from a hybrid corn variety, they say they might not throw true to type. I had bicolour corn and yes I grew yellow corn, whitish corn and the yellow and white mix and I don't think it tasted as good as the hybrid. So I won't do that again. All about trying and learning.
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Choko/Chayote (also Chayote squash, christophene, chouchou, mirliton) 26 Jan, Maureen Po (Australia - temperate climate): I am having the same problem Growing well all new leaves are curling inwards. I have treated for mites but I haven’t seen anything on the leaves. Anyone have any advise?
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Choko/Chayote (also Chayote squash, christophene, chouchou, mirliton) 27 Jan, (Australia - temperate climate): You could have a virus. Is the plant stunted?
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Pumpkin 23 Jan, Tina Johnson (Australia - temperate climate): My pumpkins have sprouted out of some compost I put in the soil. I though they were QLD pumpkins but they are still a light yellow colour, will they turn grey or should I pick them.
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Pumpkin 27 Jan, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I have only grown Kent pumpkin the last two years so I don't know much about the other varieties. But a mature pumpkin yellow sounds maybe like a different variety. Doing a bit of reading on the internet might help. Don't pick pumpkin until they are about 18-22 weeks old, the vine will be dying off and the stem holding the pumpkin to the vine will become hard.
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Rhubarb 20 Jan, Louise R (Australia - temperate climate): I haven't been able to buy Rhubarb Crowns in Armadale 6112. W.A. You can only buy Punnets.
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Ginger 20 Jan, Kelly (Australia - temperate climate): Hello I live in Perth any chance of growing outside this will be .?
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Ginger 17 Feb, Veronica Cook (Australia - tropical climate): I have successfully grown ginger and have got my 2nd batch growing. We chose a large pot for the 1st lot as the plant grows sideways as the corms grow, this 2nd batch we have the 2nd lot we have put in larger containers. We live in Mandurah
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Pumpkin 20 Jan, SA MID NORTH (Australia - arid climate): Be careful using your grey water on edible crops due to pathogens
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Pumpkin 24 Jan, Jaz (Australia - arid climate): I'm mid north SA also, I thought we were temperate??
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Lettuce 20 Jan, Miles (Australia - temperate climate): I am trying to grow lettuce in soil I have added my home compost to. All seedlings get nibbled down to nothing at night and I can't identify what is going it. I live in Perth and very keen to know what is doing it and how I can control them
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Lettuce 21 Jan, anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Go out at night and see what is eating the seedlings. Sparrows eat my lettuce the first couple of months of the year. I have a bird trap now. They also eat the heart out of my snow peas certain times of the year. Work out how to put a border around each plant or the whole block of lettuce. Like a 90mm pipe 100mm long and put oil or grease or Vaseline on the outside. Or look up similar things on the internet for slugs, snails etc. Or build a frame and cover with shade cloth.
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Tomato 19 Jan, Carol (Australia - temperate climate): To keep the slugs, caterpillars from Tomatoes and other vegetables away break egg shells up and spread around plants. Works great
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Pumpkin 19 Jan, Peter Golding (Australia - temperate climate): I live on Sydneys Northern Beaches. I have my pumpkin vines growing flat out on my lawn. Maybe 3 months since planting from seeds. I notice they produce many flowers but as yet most have dropped off and none have turned to fruit. I have possums and Bandicoots around but dont think they are causing the issue. How can I please keep the flowers from dropping off? I keep the water up to them and have used seaweed solutions a few times and added fertiliser pellets. Thanks for your help in advance
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Pumpkin 20 Feb, N (Australia - temperate climate): Live in Melbourne and had the same problem... Then I started hand pollination and fruits were setting on 95% of my female flowers
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Pumpkin 20 Jan, anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I suggest you look up on the internet how to grow pumpkin. Look up how pumpkin needs bees to take pollen from the male flower to the female flower. Look to see if you have any plants flowers in your yard/neighbour that attract bees. Otherwise learn how to hand pollinate the female flowers.
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Pumpkin 21 Jan, Peter Golding (Australia - temperate climate): Thank you I will do so
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Pumpkin 22 Feb, Lembit (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Does any one know why the we have to hand pollinate pumpkins - the bees used to do it when I was a child?
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Kohlrabi 17 Jan, Carol (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate): When is best time to grow kohlrabi in Auckland?
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Coriander (also Cilantro, Chinese parsley) 16 Jan, Roger Davidon (Australia - temperate climate): Various attempts to grow coriander in pots in Adelaide to no avail, could you please advise on growing conditions, watering, soil type and prep, fertiliser etc. Thank you very much
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Coriander (also Cilantro, Chinese parsley) 07 Mar, Craig (Australia - temperate climate): Goolwa SA....you can plant in pots as the temperature of summer cools down....as in right now...(march 2022)....they will grow for ages from now before going to seed..they seem to love the temperatures cooling down..but plant enough because you will only get a short growing period if planted in September because as the days begin to heat up again they will bolt to seed quickly...keep them moist and use some thrive soluble fertiliser when watering occasionally to keep them at their best....I use potting mix and compost and some neutrog rapid raiser as they love food....this year i tried to grow some in summer in pots in between rainwater tanks to keep them cool but they bolted to seed quickly even though it wasnt a hot summer here
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