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Snow Peas (also Sugar Peas, Mangetout, Chinese Peas) 21 Dec, Liz at Gardenate (New Zealand - temperate climate): Snow peas grow best in cooler weather. See here www.gardenate.com/plant/Snow Peas?zone=2
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Capsicum (also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers) 20 Dec, Elie (Australia - temperate climate): Hey guys, My capsicum plant is giving me a lot og capsicum but they are small and changing colors while they are still small... any advise on what might be the issue
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Capsicum (also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers) 22 Dec, anon (Australia - temperate climate): Probably not enough fertiliser and also I feel it is too hot this time of year to grow caps.
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Cape Gooseberry (also Golden Berry, Inca Berry ) 20 Dec, Eliud Mungai (South Africa - Dry summer sub-tropical climate): I am from Kenya in East Africa and I have a small garden planted with golden berries.the plants are about 1.5 metres high. Their leaves have developed white sports underneath and are falling off. What could be the problem? And what's the soluton to this problem?
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Cape Gooseberry (also Golden Berry, Inca Berry ) 22 Dec, Anon (Australia - temperate climate): Check with a local agricultural department or a nursery.
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Garlic 17 Dec, Brian Gavaghan OAM (Australia - temperate climate): With our diverse weather, what watering should we do?And Oblige Brian
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Garlic 18 Dec, Another gardener (Australia - sub-tropical climate): It is a bit of trial and error. Have good draining soil. Little plants need little waterings more often, daily, big plants a lot more water less often, 2-3 times per week. General rule dig down into the soil 50-70mm to see how moist the soil is. You will quickly learn that say a crop of lettuce might need 60 sec of watering. Whereas some mature tomatoes plants need 2-3 minutes.
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Cucumber 16 Dec, Barabara (Australia - temperate climate): Why do my cucumbers die and drop off when they are about 1 cm long please? They are neither under nor over watered. I dug cow manure into the bed 6 weeks before planting and have not fertilised further. The plants are very healthy and have many flowers and baby cucumbers on them.
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Cucumber 17 Dec, anon (Australia - cool/mountain climate): You need bees to pollinate the female flowers, looks like you don't have any in your area. You can do it by hand, google it. Try planting some bee attracting flowers/shrubs in your yard to bring the bees to your place next time. From my experience only a small % of female flowers end up pollinated and grow into full size fruit.
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Cucumber 19 Dec, Barbara (Australia - temperate climate): Thank you. I do have plenty of bees. It is my understanding that if the cucumbers have formed then the pollination has occurred. Am I wrong? I do have plenty of 1 cm cucumbers on the bushes.
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Cucumber 20 Dec, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate): If you look at the flowers, the male has no little cue behind the actual flower, whereas the female has the little cue then the flower in the front. I had 8 apple cues in recently and they produced hundreds of flowers if not thousands. Only picked about 100 cues from it all together. If you can check the cues about 7-10 am to see if the bees are working. I read it takes about 10-12 visits by bees to pollinate a pumpkin flower. Cues could be similar. Hope you have some cues growing by now.
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Cape Gooseberry (also Golden Berry, Inca Berry ) 15 Dec, Margaret (Australia - cool/mountain climate): I live in Canberra, australia. Is it too late to put in some seed?
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Cape Gooseberry (also Golden Berry, Inca Berry ) 17 Dec, anon (Australia - cool/mountain climate): A general guide is to plant Sept to Nov . so put some seed in as soon as possible. Weather changes year to year, and I'm not talking climate change. We are experiencing a much later start to spring summer rains due to the Indian ocean dipole and the monsoon trough has not yet moved down from India into the north of Australia.
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Kale (also Borecole) 15 Dec, Sandy (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I am new at growing veggies. What are other veggies compatible to plant with?
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Kale (also Borecole) 17 Dec, Liz (New Zealand - temperate climate): If you know which vegetable you want to grow, find its information via the Vegetables and Herbs tab. Make sure the top scroll bar is set to your climate zone and read the information below. Most plants have Compatible or Avoid lists.
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Rockmelon (also Canteloupe) 10 Dec, Steven Larkin (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Hi , My Edens Gem melons have a few weeks more growing until harvest. Most of the leaves have yellowed and died. Will they still be ok to be harvested. Thanks
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Rockmelon (also Canteloupe) 17 Dec, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate): This happens to some crops as they approach harvest time, maybe they needed more watering in this hot weather. I'm in the same boat with rock melons, my problem is do some of the new commercial melons slip from the vine when ripening. Mine are still green and I feel they will not be ripe until around Xmas day. A few of my melons were attacked by Qld fruit fly I think. I put shade cloth over my melons this morning to keep the flies off. If you have plenty of melons you could try one.
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Cowpeas (also Black eye peas, Southern peas) 09 Dec, Donna Georgiou (Australia - temperate climate): I would like to grow black eye beans (cowpeas) for family use as we like them fresh as well as dry , would I be able to purchase seeds . [Gardenate: we don't sell any seeds or plants]
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Cowpeas (also Black eye peas, Southern peas) 12 Dec, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Try the internet.
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Capsicum (also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers) 07 Dec, Jo (Australia - temperate climate): I’ve noticed my capsicum is very small this year same as last year. Has been in for about 6 wks and is only about 6-7 inches tall. Been regularly watered and fertilised?
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Capsicum (also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers) 10 Dec, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Check the NPK of the fertiliser - seasol and similar things are not fertilisers. You would have to consider what the soil was like before you planted. Did you have another crop in before planting the caps. It would have used most of the nutrients up. What is the ph of the soil, the soil temp etc. Where I live we are having temps of 3+ degree above average and no rain. Too hot to grow most things I feel.
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Capsicum (also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers) 05 Dec, Graeme Mills (Australia - temperate climate): I have one plant with lots of flowers but no capsicums in sight. This is the first time I have struck this as I've grown the very successfully in the past. I have a large net enclosing all of my vegie plants to keep the butterflies and birds away. They get plenty of water and fertilised with seasol about once a fortnight
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Capsicum (also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers) 06 Dec, anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Seasol is not a fertiliser. Do some research on fertilisers. I pulled some capsicums out today, plenty of flowers lately, little fruit developing, not many growing to full size, a lot being burnt by the sun. It's holiday time for the garden and myself.
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Borage (also Burrage, Bugloss) 04 Dec, Janet (New Zealand - cool/mountain climate): What can I plant around borage so I won’t get in contact with the prickly plant? Chillies? Pepper? Lemon grass? Area is sunny but windy.
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Borage (also Burrage, Bugloss) 05 Dec, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I have grown borage the last two years, the plants have been huge, 1.2m high and 1.8-2.0m diameter. I suggest you grow them where you are not going to walk around much.
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Silverbeet (also Swiss Chard or Mangold) 04 Dec, Don Leslie (Australia - temperate climate): My silverbeet has gone to seed very young they are only six weeks old
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Silverbeet (also Swiss Chard or Mangold) 07 Dec, anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate): A plants purpose is to grow and set seed so that it can reproduce it's self in the future. If there is a lack of nutrient (fertiliser) and or water then it won't grow much and will go to seed. A local farmer has just redesigned his farm (moved soil and laser levelled etc). He planted a cover crop to put some fibre back into the soil. He is watering the hell out of it but it just won't grow much - reason - there is no nutrient in the soil.
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Silverbeet (also Swiss Chard or Mangold) 05 Dec, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Probably one or both of two reasons. They lacked fertiliser/watering or the season, coming into hot summer weather. More a cool weather crop I think.
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Rhubarb 03 Dec, Spike Petersen (Australia - temperate climate): I have been wondering if a raised garden bed would be ok to grow rhubarb as a horticulturist this is one plant that has been a difficult one to grow as well as strawberries nothing much else is a problem. Its been said that I can get a broom handles to grow yet rhubarb eludes me. Thanks in advance
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Rhubarb 14 Dec, Craig chapman (Australia - temperate climate): Gday spike yes this is my first year growing rhubarb in raised garden beds, my harvest is unbelievable,our temperature where I am gets very hot 46 is not uncommon, however this year I covered my entire veg I patch with fruit fly netting (we get the here) the netting is only 2-3% shade so on the roof I staggered 70% shade cloth that is 1.8 wide the missed 1.8 and so on so every thing gets sun but not all the time, my beds consisted Of we’ll rotten cow manure with a sandy top about 4-5 inches then sugar cane mulch to keep moisture in, hope this helps..
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