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Cucumber 27 Dec, Fiona (Australia - temperate climate): Ours were very slow to start this year due to our unusually cool temperatures. But have now started to take off and produce fruit. We are southern fleurieu.
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Cucumber 20 Nov, Nigel (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I plant mine a bit earlier and found that they take a fair bit of time to take off. Plenty of water and a good fertilizer will move them along. I use Power Feed liquid fertilizer and get great results
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Cucumber 19 Nov, Anonymous (Australia - sub-tropical climate): The first leaves that come out of the seed are called cotyledons. The next set of leaves are call the first set of true leaves, these can take a few days (6-10) to appear. You may need to look at do you have good rich soil, do you water regularly, do they receive plenty of sunlight.
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Carrot 17 Nov, jusee (Australia - tropical climate): Can I find tropical carrots varieties seeds that suitable to grow here in Malaysia?
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Carrot 19 Nov, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Any common carrot should. It is more about when to plant and soil type.
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Rhubarb 09 Nov, ROBIN KINROSS (Australia - temperate climate): We live in Melbourne. Where can we buy a rhubarb forcer? Thanks
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Rhubarb 10 Nov, (Australia - temperate climate): plant asap
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Garlic 08 Nov, Green thumb (Australia - temperate climate): Hello, What’s the best way to store garlic, if you have some bulbs now in summer given to you , till your ready to plant on shortest day ? Thanks for the replies
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Garlic 10 Nov, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Dry them out in the sun/shade for two weeks. Then in a cool dry place in a tray, spread them out a bit.
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Carrot 06 Nov, Colin Scott (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I have had carrots with for legs and then two by thinning consistently. The last one was single at the top but had multiple small legs at the bottom. How do I stop this?
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Carrot 10 Nov, (Australia - temperate climate): Best to grow carrots in a sandy loam kind of soil. Don't need a lot of nitrogen. Also I wouldn't thin out too much. I don't grow them because they are cheap to buy and take so long to grow.
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Carrot 09 Nov, Liz (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate): Multiple
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Carrot 02 Jul, Kelly (Australia - sub-tropical climate): If you want to reduce forking of the roots - you must stop digging and tilling and hoeing. No dig beds are your answer and only do compost as your medium to grow. They are light and airy and nutrient dense.
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Chilli peppers (also Hot peppers) 06 Nov, marco (Australia - sub-tropical climate): i live on the gold coast my chillies are flowering now and have chillies .my chilli plants self seeded around august .i pickle my chillies .easy to do and has not got the zing as a fresh one ,yet nice to taste .
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Chilli peppers (also Hot peppers) 10 Nov, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): You chop up your chilli or quick blend and fill jar with olive oil.
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Tomato 06 Nov, Clara (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I have good success with oxhearts and rouge de marmande. They fruit all through winter too and I'm more southerly than you. You can get these varieties in DT Brown seeds from Reject Shop for $2 a packet. Mine self seed after the first season and I'm about to harvest a pair of oxhearts weighing 300gms each. They don't seem to revert to wild tomato types when self seeding which a lot of other varieties do. Cherry toms are prolific fruiters and easy but a PITA to harvest and not useful for sandwiches. But perfect to toss into a salad. I prefer the larger types. I harvest the toms as soon as I get a small blush of pink/yellow on the skin and then they ripen perfectly inside without inviting pests. But you need to let them get the colouring enzymes going on the vine first in a small amount for this to work.
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Tomato 06 Nov, Clara (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I never use anything and get large crops. Maybe I am just exceptionally lucky? Who knows.Try tomato fruit bags. These are fine mesh bags you tie over the green fruit trusses that prevents insects from getting at them. If you can sew you can probably make a heap out of an old fine net curtain to save $$$ as they tend to be rather pricey to buy. Just a rectangular bag with a drawstring large enough to house the truss.
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Rhubarb 06 Nov, Clara (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Don't plant it in plastic, they hate that. Use terracotta and it will do well. It likes the airflow. I have mine in a medium terracotta pot and it's loving it. You do have to feed and water it very regularly though in warm weather. It's not a set and forget situation potted up, needs some looking after. But does make a great display.
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Rhubarb 06 Nov, Clara (Australia - sub-tropical climate): My guess is that your soil has too much clay content in it for rhubarb. It does this in heavy soil. I tried to grow it in the ground here, I have very rich, dark soil but it borders on high clay content. My plant suffered until I removed it and potted it up in large terracotta pot with light potting mix. Now it's doing brilliantly. The terracotta keeps the roots cool and stops the crown from rotting. But it has to be watered daily potted up like that as it wilts very easily. I ended up growing my rhubarb and strawberries in pots because they just didn't like the heavy soil. They are producing wonderfully now and make a nice display together. An alternative could be to add a lot of organic material to your soil and plant it into a built up mound for free draining situation.
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Rhubarb 10 Nov, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Buy some sand or sandy loam soil and mix into your soil and compost.
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Rockmelon (also Canteloupe) 03 Nov, Maria Craig (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate): can you make a frame to grow rock melons on if so what type I live in Auckland New Zealand
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Rockmelon (also Canteloupe) 05 Nov, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Wood frame with some kind of mesh or house reo. Have as trellis or flat base.
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Beetroot (also Beets) 01 Nov, Wendy (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I have had very varied success with growing beetroot. Some will grow quickly and taste so sweet, others in the same garden bed don't even go to seedlings. They are the same seed packet, same variety and same area of garden. Can anyone help. I have tested Ph and they get watered at night every second day if no rain. I am at a loss as to why some do & some don't.
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Beetroot (also Beets) 04 Nov, Anonymous (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I grow beetroot from Mar to harvest late Oct. I grow seedlings and plant out and cover with a shade cloth cover for about 2 weeks. I then fertilise with a watering can to give a good uniform fertilising. If required another fertilising later. Space plants about 125mm apart. Rows about 400mm apart. When they have grown about 150-200mm high I even hill the soil around them a bit to support them. I grow DT BROWN Detroit Red Globe from the Reject shops. I find when I boil them to pickle they don't bleed too much. They flesh is still a deep colour. I water each two days in good free draining soil.
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Tomato 01 Nov, John Ellis (Australia - cool/mountain climate): Tomatoes grew well last season until whitefly arrived. I found that Pyrethrum spray only reduced the numbers for a week or two and then it was basically ineffective. Suggestions as to effective control?
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Tomato 04 Nov, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I basically only grow cherry tomatoes, they are fairly disease resistant. Bigger tomatoes the fly and grubs just feed on them especially when the warmer wet weather comes.
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Potato 31 Oct, Kevin Weaver (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I live on the mid north coast of Nsw . I planted potatoes in my vegetable garden at the beginning of October, not realizing they are best grown in cooler months, the are currently looking and growing really well i have just mounded them for the first time. Is there any chance they will grow to harvest, or am i wasting my time. Thanks kev
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Potato 01 Nov, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): In sub tropical you can grow an Autumn and a Spring crop. The guide above says plant Aug to Oct. They also plant about May in Bundy - sub tropical.
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Sweet Marjoram (also Knotted marjoram) 30 Oct, Tohfe (Australia - temperate climate): How many weeks to grow up (From Gardenate:Check here www.gardenate.com/plant/Sweet Marjoram )
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Parsnip 24 Oct, Edwin S Bedford (Australia - cool/mountain climate): It is Spring in South West Victoria , my daughter has planted Parsnip and growing well. Suddenly they have all bolted, can you help please. regards Edwin.
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