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Horseradish 29 Nov, Liz (Australia - temperate climate)
You just need ordinary soil. Keep it watered, a wooden box will dry out quickly. You cannot grow horseradish without leaves.
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Choko/Chayote (also Chayote squash, christophene, chouchou, mirliton) 26 Nov, Luna (Australia - tropical climate)
My choco leaves get burn dueing summer and the fruits become unhealthy . It also upset me because of some yellow beetles around which i always squeezed by hand.
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Choko/Chayote (also Chayote squash, christophene, chouchou, mirliton) 26 Nov, Anonymous (Australia - tropical climate)
By the guide here it is grown during the autumn and winter in the tropics. If you are growing during the summer then you probably need to water it every day. The yellow/orange beetles if they have little black dots on them could be lady beetles. They are good in the garden.
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Pumpkin 23 Nov, Linda (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Hello, I threw pumpkin seeds onto a mound of organic soil. The vine is strong and healthy however the fruit forms but then dies off. I have given it some veggie fertilizer and worm juice. I thought that pollination wouldn't be an issue if the fruit is forming. We live on the Gold Coast and the pumpkin patch gets the morning sun actually its in the sun for most of the day.
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Pumpkin 24 Nov, Ruth (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Your flowers are possibly not pollinated and will nnot mature. Pick a male flower, strip back the petals and tickle the female flowers with it and you should get mature fruit
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Pumpkin 24 Nov, Anonymous (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
If the soil was good to start with then it didn't need the extra fertiliser.
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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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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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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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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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Rosella (also Queensland Jam Plant, Roselle) 11 Nov, Viv McLauchlan (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
How long could I expect a rosella plant to live in central Qld. Are they annuals or what?
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Rosella (also Queensland Jam Plant, Roselle) 11 Nov, Anonymous (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Read the article here - it tells you.
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Choko/Chayote (also Chayote squash, christophene, chouchou, mirliton) 08 Nov, Joanne (Australia - temperate climate)
What causes leaf curl on choko vine.
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Choko/Chayote (also Chayote squash, christophene, chouchou, mirliton) 09 Nov, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Are they receiving enough water?
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Squash (also Crookneck, Pattypan, Summer squash) 02 Nov, LORRAINE (Australia - temperate climate)
I have read article on planting the 3 companion plants together..have planted sweet corn & French runner beans & looking for a suggestion for something climbing for trellis behind Don't particularly like squash..
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Squash (also Crookneck, Pattypan, Summer squash) 03 Nov, Anonymous (Australia - temperate climate)
My suggestion is plant them in separate areas, all three that is. I have just harvested a block of corn, there is no way I could have planted climbing beans amongst them. You would have to thin out the corn planting therefore effecting the pollination ability of the corn. Do you want small thin cobs of corn. I feel you would end up with a poor crop of each vegetable. Corn needs fertilising, beans don't need much, conflict.
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Okra (also Ladyfinger, gumbo) 31 Oct, Surinder (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate)
Please confirm from where to get okra seeds in Hamilton
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Okra (also Ladyfinger, gumbo) 04 Nov, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
On the internet or try local gardening shops
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Luffa (also Loofah, plant sponge) 30 Oct, Amanda Fitzgerald (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Although im in sub-tropic, northern rivers NSW i still get heavy frosts, can i still grow luffas and is november too late to plant out seedlings
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Luffa (also Loofah, plant sponge) 02 Nov, (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Although it is a summer crop, they say to plant seeds Sept onwards. Maybe best to wait until after the last frosts. If you feel your climate is more like temperate use temperate climate zone
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Beans - climbing (also Pole beans, Runner beans, Scarlet Runners) 25 Oct, Kenneth Daunt (Australia - temperate climate)
I have some Purple King, first time with these, and they are climbing up the frame very well. I had a suggestion to pinch of the top to encourage them to spread sideways. Is this a good idea? If they keep going, now over 2 m high, I will have to train the leaders dideways or down as they will have run out of support. Cheers.
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Beans - climbing (also Pole beans, Runner beans, Scarlet Runners) 03 Jan, Pauline (Australia - temperate climate)
Is it ok to plant purple king in January
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