All recent comments/discussion

Display Newest first | Oldest first, Show comments for USA | for all countries
Showing 91 - 120 of 13732 comments
Cucumber 13 Jan, Pitman Wayne (Australia - temperate climate)
CUCAMELON: This is the fourth season growing the Cucamelon in Adelaide and getting a better result each year, but the vine and leaves turn brown and die off rather early. Any suggestions please.
Reply
Luffa (also Loofah, plant sponge) 12 Jan, Vanessa (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Free organic spare seeds to an Australian address? Vanessa
Reply
Rhubarb 28 Dec, John R Pellegrini (Australia - temperate climate)
what is the best fertilizer for it
Reply
Rhubarb 02 Jan, (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Any general fertiliser is good.
Reply
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.
Reply
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.
Reply
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.
Reply
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.
Reply
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.
Reply
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?
Reply
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.
Reply
Daikon (also Japanese radish, Lo Bok) 30 Nov, Noel (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
What variety would be suitable for south east coastal QLD
Reply
Daikon (also Japanese radish, Lo Bok) 14 Dec, (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Any variety.
Reply
Yacon (also Sunroot) 26 Nov, Malcolm (Australia - temperate climate)
are we allowed to grow in South Australia
Reply
Yacon (also Sunroot) 25 Nov, Eva (Australia - temperate climate)
I wonder where I could pay some Yacon plants please. I need for health reasons. Thankyou
Reply
Yacon (also Sunroot) 30 Nov, (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Go to google and type buy yacon plants.
Reply
Rhubarb 17 Nov, M (Australia - temperate climate)
Hi I’ve got a rhubarb plant I planted at the end of sept/early oct. Several of the larger leaves have turned yellow (about 3) and about 3 new baby stalks have turned yellow. There are still about 10 large green healthy leaves on there. Is there something I’m doing wrong?
Reply
Rhubarb 25 Nov, (Australia - temperate climate)
The larger leaves could be just old ones. The new leaves could be lack of fertiliser.
Reply
Choko/Chayote (also Chayote squash, christophene, chouchou, mirliton) 17 Nov, Kerry (Australia - temperate climate)
Where can I buy choko please, live on north west coast Tasmania , in st Helen’s now for week end , I go to Launceston regularly. Thank you regards kerry
Reply
Choko/Chayote (also Chayote squash, christophene, chouchou, mirliton) 25 Nov, (Australia - temperate climate)
Ask in a shop if you want to eat or plant. Otherwise they don't grow in temperate or cool/mountain areas. Need tropical - sub tropical climate by this website.
Reply
Cucumber 11 Nov, Anne (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Morning I can’t post a pic by looks of it but I’m a learner gardener and have cucumber growing but the leaves look Like they have some sort of fungus on them so not sure on how to fix it
Reply
Cucumber 25 Nov, (Australia - temperate climate)
Google fungus on cucumbers. It comes up with powdery mildew - see if the photos look the same as your cucumbers.
Reply
Beans - dwarf (also French beans, Bush beans) 10 Nov, Sarah (Australia - temperate climate)
Planted dwarf Beans early September with a lot of success. Have harvested 3 times including this morning. I can see some leaves are starting to turn yellow. What vegetable can I plant to replace. Summer can be extremely hot at times
Reply
Beans - dwarf (also French beans, Bush beans) 25 Nov, (Australia - temperate climate)
https://www.queenslandgardening.com/calender.html Try this website. I'm sub- tropical and I don't grow veg in summer - too hot wet and windy. Start again early March.
Reply
Cape Gooseberry (also Golden Berry, Inca Berry ) 01 Nov, Annie (Australia - temperate climate)
I'd like to buy inca berry/ cape gooseberry plants or seeds. Does anyone have some for sale? In Gippsland. TIA
Reply
Cape Gooseberry (also Golden Berry, Inca Berry ) 22 Nov, (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Try the internet seed selling sites.
Reply
Lettuce 29 Oct, Getz (Australia - temperate climate)
Hi I just planted lettuce, after few days some leaves come out but the day after disappeared! I notice lots of little lizards, do the lizards could eat my lettuce? Cheers Getz
Reply
Lettuce 05 Nov, (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Check for birds also.
Reply
Garlic 28 Oct, Kelvan.......Margaret River wa (Australia - temperate climate)
I have successfully grown garlic for several years now with huge success however this year most of my crop has secondary sprouting. I seems that the time their ready for picking in around 4 > 6 weeks most will be lost due to all cloves within the bulb sprouting. PLEASE any thoughts as to what's going on.
Reply
Garlic 15 Nov, Ric (Australia - temperate climate)
Hi Kelvan, I haven't had the sprouting problem but after 30 years of growing garlic I have just harvested the worst crop I have ever had, but having talked to fellow growers, they also have experienced lesser quality garlic and some premature sprouting as well. It is worth noting that we have experienced colder temperatures this springtime and below 15 degrees celsius soil temperature whilst bulbing will induce early sprouting. On numerous occasions I have placed garlic in the refrigerator in February to bring on earlier sprouting. I usually plant over 500 cloves each year and some years over 5000 and give the garlic away to people who can't afford the ridiculous retail prices. Of course also to replace the weak quality, low pungency Chinese garlic. I am a great believer in planetry positioning within the universe, it has a large effect on weather and all forms of life and will certainly effect all growth and evolutionary factors. Perhaps next year will be a better one or we might have to plant later as it appears the planet is cooling.
Reply
Showing 91 - 120 of 13732 comments
Gardenate App

Put Gardenate in your pocket. Get our app for iPhone, iPad or Android to add your own plants and record your plantings and harvests

Planting Reminders

Join 60,000+ gardeners who already use Gardenate and subscribe to the free Gardenate planting reminders email newsletter.


Home | Vegetables and herbs to plant | Climate zones | About Gardenate | Contact us | Privacy Policy

This planting guide is a general reference intended for home gardeners. We recommend that you take into account your local conditions in making planting decisions. Gardenate is not a farming or commercial advisory service. For specific advice, please contact your local plant suppliers, gardening groups, or agricultural department. The information on this site is presented in good faith, but we take no responsibility as to the accuracy of the information provided.
We cannot help if you are overrun by giant slugs.