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Cucumber 23 Dec, Peter (Australia - temperate climate)
Cucumbers. I always grow Lebanese Cuces, supported by the chicken wire fence of my garden. This year the vines look great and there are lots of bees feeding on the flowers, but I am only getting about one Cuce per day. Feeding liquid manure, mixed with Dynamic Lifter. Any ideas why the crop is so small? Cheers Pete.
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Cucumber 09 Jan, Gerrie (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
Switch to fertilisers labelled "flowers and fruit", fertilisers with a lower nitrogen content. Animal manures have a high Nitrogen content that is good for basic plant growth. For example, Dynamic Lifter which is pelletised cow manure has an NPK (Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium) ratio of 3.5 - 1 - 1.6 which is good for initial growth, but switch to another fertiliser when the plants are growing strongly.
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Cucumber 12 Jan, (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
If you compare a general fertiliser with some of these specialty fertilisers there is very little difference between them. I use Nitrophoska which is 15 - 6 - 12. It is used by commercial vegetable growers. Manures do not have high N content compared to commercial fertilisers. You just do not put raw manures on heavily, especially chook. You judge how much fert you put on by how high the npk is. A handful of fertiliser per sq meter is sufficient to grow a lot of crops. Applied a week or two before planting seed/seedlings and turned in.
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Cucumber 02 Jan, (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
A good fertilising at planting is all they need. A light fertilise maybe when they start flowering. Can't help with the reduced crop. I picked over 120 cues off 5 plants November.
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Brussels sprouts 22 Dec, zach (USA - Zone 8b climate)
Growing sprouts in 8b. im having the issue of them not bunching up and just getting open leaves even though we've had pretty cold weather. any thoughts?
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Chilli peppers (also Hot peppers) 21 Dec, Johannes Mojela (South Africa - Semi-arid climate)
Hello I want to plant chillies for mike comission butI have 500.s/m can you please please advise me what time must I start to plant
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Chilli peppers (also Hot peppers) 02 Jan, (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate)
Check the planting guide for your climate zone.
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Beetroot (also Beets) 20 Dec, Marilyn Treon (USA - Zone 9b climate)
Planting little at a time. in Zone 9 I have Beets to go in wondering when I see May is a good time?
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Beetroot (also Beets) 02 Jan, (USA - Zone 9a climate)
Check the planting guide for zone 9.
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Celery 17 Dec, Rene (USA - Zone 9b climate)
It's mid December, is it too late to start celery from seed?
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Celery 18 Dec, (USA - Zone 9b climate)
December is the perfect time to sow seeds for celery! Best to do it in an undercover seed tray, then in February you can transplant the seedlings.
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Pumpkin 17 Dec, Brett (Australia - temperate climate)
It is fairly easy. A male flower has a single central stem in the middle of the flower. Like a small pencil. It has a sort of yellow pollen on it. A female flower has a circular thing in the middle of the flower. If you want to hand fertilise you just break off the male stem and stick it in the female thing and rub the pollen off. It is the same procedure as for all life I suppose.
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Ginger 16 Dec, Ebrahim (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate)
Need advice on growing ginger and garlic in Durban
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Ginger 21 Dec, (South Africa - Semi-arid climate)
Read the notes here about growing them or do some google searches.
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Chilli peppers (also Hot peppers) 15 Dec, Babe Sedile (South Africa - Semi-arid climate)
I want to start to grow chilies and I wanted to know the type that of soil that is perfect for it and the type of area that will be good for it see
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Chilli peppers (also Hot peppers) 21 Dec, (South Africa - Semi-arid climate)
Just have good rich loose soil, Soil that has had some manures and compost added to it. Some general fertiliser.
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Broccoli 13 Dec, STEVE (USA - Zone 8b climate)
is now a good time for Brocclli Planting?
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Broccoli 13 Dec, (USA - Zone 8b climate)
Best to wait until January/February if you can
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Asparagus 12 Dec, Bongani Mhlabeni (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate)
I am the Procurement Officer in the Ministry of Agriculture Lesotho and like to Procure Asparagus Crowns. 350 x 10 Bundles of 2-year-old asparagus crowns to cover about 1.3 Ha. Cognizant of the scarcity of supply, any of the following varieties will be proffered: UC157, Purchase Passion, Pacific Purple and Marry Washington.
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Onion 09 Dec, Gill (New Zealand - temperate climate)
How much watering do onions like. On tank water so hoping not heavy drinkers
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Onion 14 Dec, (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate)
Just give a watering 2-3 times a week depending on how hot it is.
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Silverbeet (also Swiss Chard or Mangold) 07 Dec, Judy (New Zealand - temperate climate)
Something is eating my silverbeet non toxic spray needed thank you
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Silverbeet (also Swiss Chard or Mangold) 14 Dec, (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate)
Google for organic sprays.
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Garlic 06 Dec, Pieter (South Africa - Humid sub-tropical climate)
I was not able to find anyone selling day neutral varieties such as Southern Glen; sounds as if day lenght makes a huge difference in warmer subtropical climates; does anyone have advice as to which variety will form the best bulbs in the Lowveld's warm winters
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Sunflower 05 Dec, nancy aldape (USA - Zone 9a climate)
I love sunflowers
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Sunflower 02 Jan, Celeste Archer (Canada - Zone 5a Temperate Warm Summer climate)
Me too.
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Marrow 01 Dec, Lina Vennix (Australia - temperate climate)
I would like to thank Ken for his advice on 23/9/23 I have successfully grow the marrows and have had to hand pollinate the flowers using a small brush. A lot of the small female fruit have dropped off the plant but so far have 3 marrows growing well. Can you advise how to keep the seeds, at what stage do I collect them?
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Marrow 14 Dec, (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Don't use a brush just use the male flower to pollinate the female flower as advised. For seed collection let the marrow grow really big then leave it for a couple of weeks then take the seeds out and let dry for a few weeks. Store a cool place or put in a jar and put in the fridge.
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Daikon (also Japanese radish, Lo Bok) 30 Nov, Noel (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
What variety would be suitable for south east coastal QLD
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Daikon (also Japanese radish, Lo Bok) 14 Dec, (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Any variety.
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