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Asparagus 14 Jul, Page (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I do not have access to crowns but do for seeds. How best to prepare the soil and what pH is recommended?
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Asparagus 21 Jul, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Bunnings sell crowns this time of year. Google seed selling companies on the net - like Eden seeds or similar. Crowns will have you 12 mths ahead of seeds. Just good friable soil ph 6-7 will grow most things or google it.
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Snow Peas (also Sugar Peas, Mangetout, Chinese Peas) 10 Jul, Garry Searle (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Why are my pole beans wilting and dying. The runner stem above the ground is hollow but the root is pk
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Snow Peas (also Sugar Peas, Mangetout, Chinese Peas) 21 Jul, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Could be bean fly - grown them in the spring.
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Snow Peas (also Sugar Peas, Mangetout, Chinese Peas) 23 Jul, Garry Searle (Australia - sub-tropical climate): But this occurs in all seasons I was wondering if I am overwatering or underwatering
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Onion 05 Jul, Jacqueline (Australia - temperate climate): I'm interested in planting red onions, I am growing spring onions, and leeks quite successfully but know nothing about red onion planting and care. Could you please advise me. I only have a small balcony style garden.
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Onion 10 Jul, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): All the onion family are pretty similar to grow. Plant them similar time as spring onions and leeks. If you want more info google
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Onion 08 Aug, anne onn (Australia - temperate climate): telling people to google something on a plant website is just lazy. @Jacqueline, you can safely plant the red onions as if they were spring onions, just allow for more space between the plants Note: Gardenate does not advise google - we assume that is how the questioner found our site)
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Pumpkin 27 Jun, Jen (Australia - cool/mountain climate): golden nuggets late harvest as well as zucchini left to grow big for seed... BOTH fruit are so hard can barely get a knife through looks like they will have to be dumped into compost....What has happened? what next time NOT to do?> thanks Jen
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Pumpkin 29 Jun, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Cut them open and see if you have big fat seeds. If so they should be ok. Sometimes better to just go to someone like Boondie seeds and buy 4-6-8 seeds for $1.50-2.
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Artichokes (Globe) 26 Jun, Heidi (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I have some globe artichoke seeds and have found mixed information about when to sow seeds in Brisbane, Australia (approx US 9b). Can anyone in similar zones share experience?
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Artichokes (Globe) 29 Jun, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate): You are in artichokes - Brisbane is subtropical - see www.gardenate.com/plant/Artichokes (Globe)?zone=3
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Radish 26 Jun, Jane (Australia - tropical climate): I'm growing radishes for the first time.Tasty! What does 'they will mark the rows' mean? Thanx.
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Radish 29 Jun, Kasy in SE WI (USA - Zone 5a climate): Radish will mark the row next door if planted next to some other seeds that come up in more days than radishes. For example if you plant __?__ veggie that comes up in 10 days, next to a row of radishes, the radishes will come up certainly by day 2 ( all things present as to sunlight and water). That mean the ?? veggie will be along side and in next row but not until day 10. That way you know not to plant something else in row space next to radishes. Neat trick I never thought of. Wish I had marked my lettuce groups with one radish seed in middle.
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Radish 29 Jun, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate): They are talking about planting radish with other seeds to mark the row. Like a couple of radish between two lettuce seeds/plants. Radish will germinate in 2-5 days to show where the others are planted. I suggest you do a thin line of radish.by itself. Plant the other seeds in a different row. What I do now is have soil nice and fine and level, pat it down a bit., then plant seeds in a thin row - pinch a few seeds in your fingers and wriggle your fingers to release a seed or two at a time. Then cover the seeds with seed raising mix or fine potting mix. Try and keep the seeds shaded until they germinate. Keep the plant area moist all the time.
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Radish 02 Oct, Selina (Australia - temperate climate): This is great advice for a beginner. Thanks.
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Rhubarb 26 Jun, Wendy McGregor (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Hi there. I am making a new rhubarb garden against my west fence so it will be shaded in the hot summer afternoons. When autumn and winter comes around however this area will mostly be in the shade. Is this ok. Thank you
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Rhubarb 29 Jun, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): NO plants need sunlight and most need plenty of it. If grown in shade they will be thin and weak. In the heat keep the water up to them. Read up about growing them - google.
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Sweet Potato (also Kumara) 25 Jun, Tina Lloyd (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I want to try and grow nz Kumara / sweet potato I live in Ararat Victoria. And where can I buy slips please. Thanks
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Sweet Potato (also Kumara) 01 Jul, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Plant a couple of sweet potatoes and use the slips from them. Use the new vine part. Strip most of the leaves off a 250-300mm piece. Did trench and lay flat with the growing tip out of the ground. Water a lot the first 2 weeks. That is the way commercial growers plant sweet potato in Qld
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Broad Beans (also Fava bean) 22 Jun, Barry Beasley (Australia - temperate climate): Last year my broad beans grew well, they flowered but did not form pods. I have not struck this problem in the past. Do you have suggestios as to why they did not produce pods?
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Eggplant (also Aubergine) 21 Jun, Chris Harrison (Australia - temperate climate): If you pick eggplant while still green, will they ripen in a warm, sunny spot in the house? I have 3 eggplants on 1 plant that seem to have stopped growing for the last 2 weeks and are not ripening. It's too cold now and they're not getting much sun. Thanks
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Eggplant (also Aubergine) 29 Jun, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Pick when they have reached full size, if you wait too long the seeds develop more.
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Jerusalem Artichokes (also Sunchoke) 19 Jun, Colleen (Australia - sub-tropical climate): There's a yellow flowering bush that looks like Jerusalem Artichoke that grows wild around northern rivers- Uki NSW Australia that seems similar but flower looks a bit bigger & grows quite tall & I think the leaves are wider with a different shape, not ovste like the Sunchoke. Does anyone know if these plants that can run rampant are from the same family as the Jerusalem Artichoke?
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Jerusalem Artichokes (also Sunchoke) 13 Nov, Michael (Australia - temperate climate): Probably Tithonia Diversifolia or "mexican sunflower"
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Sweet corn (also corn,maize) 06 Jun, Barry (Australia - temperate climate): Best time to grow corn temperate area (Check here : www.gardenate.com/plant/Sweet corn?zone=2 Editor )
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Rosella (also Queensland Jam Plant, Roselle) 06 Jun, Greg McFarlane (Australia - tropical climate): Rosella plant is looking healthy & producing fruit, but some of the upper branches go brown & leaves & fruit wither. Looks like you bleach the colour out of branch. Located Mackay Should I put copper oxychloride at ground level or another solution
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Peas 03 Jun, Sally (Australia - temperate climate): I am having a lot of trouble with growing peas. I have corrugated raised garden beds filled with bags of garden soil (like Hortico Garden Soil) from Bunnings. The plants grow very well and give quite a few peas but then they start to go brown starting at the bottom of the plant and it travells up the stalk and leaves until they are all brown and dying. Any ideas?
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Peas 06 Jun, Liz (New Zealand - temperate climate): If you leave any of the pods to dry up, the plant will stop producing and start to die off. You need to check that you are not missing even pods with one pea and remove them .
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Watermelon 02 Jun, Val Tanguilig (Australia - tropical climate): What varieties of water melons are best for winter growing at Carnarvon area, Western Australia? Thanks heaps!
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