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Pumpkin 15 Sep, (Australia - temperate climate): Good luck, gardening is all about trying new things. My daughter has me growing sun flowers, first time in 40+years.
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Rhubarb 09 Sep, Angela Smith (Australia - temperate climate): what advice can you give someone who is about to start planting first crop of rhubarb. I live in South Australia and we have just started our spring
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Rhubarb 12 Sep, Barbara Robinson (Australia - temperate climate): I live in riverland where it can get very hot in summer in the 40 I have plant rhubarb plant in morning sun after shade. Do they need a lot of water, and fertiliser
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Taro (also Dasheen, cocoyam) 07 Sep, Neil prakash (New Zealand - temperate climate): Looking for island edible taro plants for my garden
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Taro (also Dasheen, cocoyam) 09 Sep, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Look up seed selling websites.
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Capsicum (also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers) 05 Sep, Vic Earle (Australia - temperate climate): A couple of capsicum plants against a northeast faceing wall have survived the winter. Almost all the leaves have survived but are now curling up should I remove them?
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Capsicum (also Bell peppers, Sweet peppers) 07 Sep, Corinna Wildenauer (Australia - temperate climate): Ive had capsicums and chillies over winter and they usually come good once it warms up. I prune them back and when it gets warmer you should find new leaves starting to emerge. Give it a good feed. The old leaves will eventually drop off. I had a chilli plant live for several years in a pot.
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Potato 04 Sep, Richard Allan (Australia - temperate climate): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgJa2wrX6lA&t=481s
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Watermelon 03 Sep, Kay (Australia - sub-tropical climate): What fertiliser is best for watermelons?
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Watermelon 08 Sep, Danlo Troth (Australia - temperate climate): My grandfather was always using old n dry cow poo. Just make sure to really dig it in and mix well into the dirt.
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Watermelon 09 Sep, Anonymous (Australia - arid climate): Old dried out cow poo has probably lost a lot of it's nutrient value, leached out with gravity and rain etc. Any manures need to be made into a compost material asap to retain as much of the nutrient as possible. Or you dig it into your soil over 6-12 weeks and with air water and turning it, it breaks down into the soil. The greatest benefit of organic material put back into the soil is it makes the soil loose and friable, which means it then drains well.
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Watermelon 04 Sep, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Just look for a general garden fertiliser. There is not that much difference in them
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Asparagus 03 Sep, Michael Archer (Australia - temperate climate): a bit hard to stop watering in Perth at this time I might knock it down at the end of summer and try to pick a few late spears then
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Asparagus 04 Sep, Anonymous (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Cut back the watering from end of May. If you keep watering and have a warmish winter it keeps growing. The idea is for the plant to put a lot of energy etc back into the crown (from the ferns) mid summer to Autumn. That is what allows the plant to send up spears during Spring. This time of the year you should have the ferns cut off, put 100-150 (?) of compost on top and applied some fertiliser and be watering heaps. At the moment I'm picking 12-15 spears each third day from 4 crowns.
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Radish 31 Aug, Kishinchand Chellaram (Australia - temperate climate): HI, I planet white radish , the laves where the green leaves where long and well but the radish was very thin like a stick very thin . so what is the reason? thanks
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Radish 03 Sep, Anonymous (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I have grown Daiken and White Hailstone radishes the last couple of years and find they have a far bigger leaf top. As mentioned too much nitrogen probably. In the tropics and sub tropics more a autumn winter crop. Too much shade and they will not grow very well. A picket fence (on the north side of the garden) shading my radishes is enough to stop them from producing a crop.
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Radish 01 Sep, Jon Hosford (Australia - cool/mountain climate): Radishes typically grow a long thin root with healthy leaves before filling out as the plant matures at about 6 weeks. There could be a number of reasons as to why your plants didn't mature: the soil was over rich in nitrogen fertilizer ( radishes prefer a modestly fertilised soil ); you may not have let them mature long enough before harvesting. Keep sowing the seed about 2 weeks apart for a continuous crop. In warm climates it is wise to grow radishes in between shady plants such as sweet corn. They do best in weather that is not too hot ( 20-25 celcius)
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Broccoli 31 Aug, Jimmy (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I had 5 purple broccoli plants planted in April from seedlings that have grown really well but have failed to develop any heads at all. What went wrong?
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Broccoli 31 Aug, Anonymous (Australia - sub-tropical climate): If really big leafy plants then your soil was too rich in Nitrogen.
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Dill 28 Aug, (USA - Zone 10b climate): live in hot se Florida zone 10b. Can dillweed herb be planted outside
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Dill 31 Aug, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Dill Zone 10b it says plant Feb.
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Snow Peas (also Sugar Peas, Mangetout, Chinese Peas) 25 Aug, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I am having trouble with leaf curl and a whitish mottling on some of the leaves. I am using a quality vegetable growing soil mix. Any ideas as to why?
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Snow Peas (also Sugar Peas, Mangetout, Chinese Peas) 26 Aug, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Google leaf curl snow peas. Look for comment by harvesttotable.
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Sunflower 25 Aug, Josie (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Hi! Wondering if it’s too earlie to plant giant Russians , I’m just north of Byron bay in the mountains, nights are still getting below 10 degrees and the soil in my garden is red clay type soil mixed with soil improvers, too cold still?
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Sunflower 26 Aug, Anonymous (Australia - temperate climate): I'm sub-tropical and I have seeds germinating now (night temps av around 9-10 (7-14) and day temps around 23-24 (21-28)). Hold off for another week or two and then give it a go. We may have another cold period before winter is finished.
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Eggplant (also Aubergine) 24 Aug, Kylie (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Hello, Can different varieties of eggplant be planted together? Also how long do eggplant plants last? I am located in Tamborine Mountain in QLD. TIA
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Eggplant (also Aubergine) 25 Aug, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Should be no problem. They are self pollinating although if bees cross pollinate them you may end up with different eggplant. If you are going to plant a few I would keep the rows apart if possible. They are perennial but most people treat them as annual, reason pest and diseases.
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Rhubarb 21 Aug, Gary Couper (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Any tips for growing rhubarb in Brisbane?
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Rhubarb 06 Jun, Peter Burgess (Australia - sub-tropical climate): How successful was your Brisbane rhubarb crop?
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Rhubarb 24 Aug, Anonymous (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Most of the info is in the notes here. Plant Sept, good draining soil, maybe a bit of shade if possible (it is a cool weather plant). Takes a few years to really establish. Probably give it a fertiliser hit early in the spring each year and during the picking season. Google how to grow it.
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