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Pumpkin 24 Nov, Anonymous (Australia - sub-tropical climate): By the sounds of it you don't have any bees in your garden. Read up about how pumpkin pollinates. You can do it by hand. Go through the comments here, many comments about pollinating them. Female pumpkin flower is only open for 1 day and generally in the morning. Water low and not all over the plant.
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Cauliflower 22 Nov, (Australia - temperate climate): I have applied cabbage moth dust to my cauliflowers and there is some eggs on some leaves , is there anything else i can do or will the dust kill there development, thank you
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Cauliflower 23 Nov, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Squash the eggs with your fingers.
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Cauliflower 09 Jan, gary (Australia - temperate climate): thanks brainwave
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Asparagus 22 Nov, Shona Mardle (New Zealand - temperate climate): My 3rd year for asparagus, so first year picking with abundance. I seem to have a lot of tall skinny spindly hard shoots. I have been cutting them off. Why are they growing? Is it something I am doing wrong? Does the plant need them?
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Asparagus 23 Nov, Anonymous (New Zealand - temperate climate): Mine are 3-4 years old. What I do now. Cut old ferns off late August (sub- tropical) then apply a few hand fulls of rooster booster from Bunnings per crown. It is only 4-3-3 organic fertiliser. I then put a 6
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Cowpeas (also Black eye peas, Southern peas) 21 Nov, Promodh Kumar (New Zealand - temperate climate): Hi Maren Just wondering if you have any cowpea seeds in Blenheim. I would like to plant some seeds in November. Thanks
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Cowpeas (also Black eye peas, Southern peas) 30 Nov, Shiko (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate): Hi, Last week I bought some cowpeas seeds form bin inn [Hamilton], and sow them and in 2-3 days it sprouted. Thanks Shady
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Sweet Potato (also Kumara) 21 Nov, Len Lind (New Zealand - temperate climate): I would like to try growing kumera here on Stewart Island in a tunnelhouse. Is there anywhere I can buy sprouts, slips?
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Potato 21 Nov, andy morzella (USA - Zone 10a climate): what are the best sweet potato and other potatos to plant and grow in zone 10A? thank you andy
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Potato 30 Nov, Anonymous (USA - Zone 10b climate): It doesn't really matter. Different potatoes are good/better for different cooking, Try a search for 'potato varieties usa' to get some more results.
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Sage (also Common Sage) 21 Nov, Steve (Australia - temperate climate): We've been growing this sage from a plant ,with fabulous results, ie its growing faster than we are using it. But it has now flowered and we're not sure on what to do, cut the flower off or leave on ,cut the whole plant back or something else. Looking forward to your advice and recommendations. Thank you.
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Sage (also Common Sage) 04 Nov, Dianne (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I recently read that sage is a perennial, so when flowering occurred I left it for some time, enjoying the pretty colour, then trimmed off those sections.By then I was most happy to be getting a lot of lovely new growth!
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Sage (also Common Sage) 23 Nov, Anonymous (Australia - sub-tropical climate): It probably can be cut back each year, google all these questions, that is how I learn things these days.
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Leeks 19 Nov, Sheryl Gordon (USA - Zone 9b climate): Can I direct seed outdoors in flats in November after it cools down? I don’t have space indoors to start seeds.
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Leeks 23 Nov, Anonymous (USA - Zone 9b climate): Read the planting guide for growing leeks in your zone. It is the monthly calendar at the top of the page.
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Asparagus 19 Nov, Kate (New Zealand - temperate climate): Hi - I planted asparagus crowns in early September. I'm in mid Canterbury. Nothing has come up yet at all. Is it likely my crowns rotted or do I need to be more patient! Thanks
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Asparagus 19 Nov, Anonymous (New Zealand - temperate climate): Read up about how to plant the crowns. They would only need a light watering each second day. Dig around one to see what is happening. Put in good friable soil not clay soil.
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Sweet Potato (also Kumara) 18 Nov, Aitaua (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate): Hi.. Can these sweet potatoes useful for planting here in Samoa?
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Sweet Potato (also Kumara) 19 Nov, (New Zealand - temperate climate): They should be.
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Choko/Chayote (also Chayote squash, christophene, chouchou, mirliton) 17 Nov, Rob Alan (Australia - temperate climate): I have a Choko vine. Fruited very well last year. Is starting to produce fruit but they are rotting on the vine. Does anyone have any idea why?
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Choko/Chayote (also Chayote squash, christophene, chouchou, mirliton) 18 Nov, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Phone an agronomist at an agric stocking/supply company.
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Sweet Potato (also Kumara) 17 Nov, Henk Stengs (New Zealand - temperate climate): I have experimented with kumara for several years in Greymouth with mixed success so last summer tried growing them in old car tyres. Their black colour absorbs heat thereby increasing soil temperature. Three sets of tyres were used, each stacked two high. These were placed inside our tunnel house on the surface in a sunny position and filled with soil, with one slip allowed to grow from each central position from late November. Harvesting took place in early April, producing a total yield of 9 kg, with about 60% of shop quality, my best result yet. When I harvested the tubers I saw that they were confined to centres of potential growth areas, with no root development at their circumferences inside the tyre rims. Therefore over half of the volume of soil in each pair of tyres was not utilised. This year I will plant 2 sllps per tyre pair, positioned diametrically opposite, with root ends inside the rims to see if this will give a better result. I am interested in hearing from anyone else who has tried growing kumara in tyres. .
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Sweet Potato (also Kumara) 18 Nov, (New Zealand - temperate climate): They grow sweet potato/kumara where I live (Qld Australia) by the thousands of acres. They hill the soil up into rows about .5m high with a base probably .7m wide. They take pieces of vine (called a slip) about .4m long, strip most of the leaves off. Keep the growing tip on it. They place the whole slip just under the soil horizontally with the growing tip sticking out of the soil. Where each set of leaves were on the slip, roots will grow and potatoes will form. Water each day for the first 2-3 weeks. Just a side issue, tires may not be the best thing to grow vegetables in. Rubber compound/chemicals could leach into the soil.
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Sweet Potato (also Kumara) 20 Feb, Jay (New Zealand - cool/mountain climate): Hi could you provide time of year for this method thanks
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Cape Gooseberry (also Golden Berry, Inca Berry ) 16 Nov, Sue Nicoll (Australia - temperate climate): What causes cape gooseberry leaves to start turning blackish. Growing in large pot and has fruit on it. Seems healthy apart from the blackness on most of the leaves. We have a bore, not sure if this is causing the problem
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Cape Gooseberry (also Golden Berry, Inca Berry ) 23 Dec, Brad (Australia - temperate climate): conditions very close to a frost can cause blackening of the leaves. Cover the plants when you expect temperatures to dip below 2deg C during colder months.
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Cape Gooseberry (also Golden Berry, Inca Berry ) 18 Nov, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Phone an agric company with an agronomist and ask them.
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Asparagus 14 Nov, cheri (USA - Zone 7b climate): How much sun do asparagus plants need? I live in zone 7.
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Asparagus 16 Nov, Anonymous (USA - Zone 5a climate): Can handle full sun but will grow in situation where sun in morning and shade in arvo. Google and read up about it.
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