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Strawberry Plants 24 Mar, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Plant one of those runners out in Feb. and it will establish and start producing runners, and new plants.
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Strawberry Plants 27 Mar, anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
What I was trying to say is DON'T PLANT OUT runners in FEB. Plant out runner plants from last years crop in April. You can do this for a few years (about 3) and then you should buy new strawberry plants.
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Asparagus 20 Mar, Faye McPeak (Australia - temperate climate)
Can I divide asparagus plants and when do I do it. I live on The Central Coast of NSW Thank you all in advance.
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Asparagus 22 Mar, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
I have just read that you can divide into 1/4 or 1/2 but not to pick spears the first year after dividing. Do it in the early spring. Google about it and read.
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Pumpkin 19 Mar, Toni Proudlock (Australia - temperate climate)
Today,I have salvaged my butternut pumpkin seeds but they are still so fresh and moist. How long does it take for them to dry out successfully? I read that they can be put in a sterile jar and kept in the fridge until September when the planting should begin. What size garden do they need? Can they be cultivated in garden planter boxes? I don't have much garden space and I have a flat block. I am very much the novice gardener....thank you.
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Pumpkin 19 Mar, Another gardener (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Take the seeds and put them in some water for about 3 days. New water each day. That will take the flesh off them. Then let them dry for about 2 weeks. Then put them in a sealable jar and put in the fridge. Plants need to be planted about 1m apart and rows about 2m apart. They need a fair bit of garden to grow in. Depending on the size of the planter box you would need to pay attention to how much fertiliser you put on and water regularly.
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Luffa (also Loofah, plant sponge) 11 Mar, Karen (Australia - tropical climate)
Will these grow in Darwin .its wet season now
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Luffa (also Loofah, plant sponge) 12 Aug, Mary-Anne (Australia - temperate climate)
I’m in Palmerston & my Luffa is growing beautifully. The gourds are impressive too!
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Luffa (also Loofah, plant sponge) 11 Mar, Anon (Australia - tropical climate)
Go to the Luffa page again and read, it is all there.
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Leeks 10 Mar, Mike (New Zealand - cool/mountain climate)
Have just transplanted very small leak plants four centimetres in to garden on the first of March. Does anyone know if they will mature?
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Leeks 11 Mar, Another gardener (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Read the notes here. Transplant out at 4-6 weeks. Sounds like you are pretty close to that. Protect them the first week or two from the sun and wind while they establish themselves. A light watering each day also.
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Sweet Potato (also Kumara) 09 Mar, Garden Gnome (Australia - temperate climate)
I have had for over one year a half 200 litre plastic drum with a sweet potatoes growing in it. Just this past weekend I have dug around in the totally dry soil looking to see what was there. I did this with my hands after loosening it up with a garden fork all around the side of the drum. The leaves were not dying off in fact new shoots are forming. I only did this as we have had 1 week of dry hot weather. I harvested 3 very good sized spuds and put the rest back and topped up with well mulched soil. No extra fertilizer has been used and this is the second time I have turned this drum. As the soil lowers and parts of tubers show I top up with more well mulch soil. With watering and good old mother nature we have bought no sweet potatoes at all for quite some time. I have no idea how long they have been growing I don't garden like that.
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Sweet Potato (also Kumara) 11 Mar, Tineke (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Brilliant! Mine are growing all over the place - better have a look see soon!!
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Sweet Potato (also Kumara) 10 Mar, ML (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Many ways to grow things. You could have just a patch of swt potatoes and pick whenever you like. I'm growing them in my volunteer gardens. Take a slip of vine (about 40cm long), strip all the leaves off except the last 10cm of the growing tip, plant it along the ground with the tip out of the soil. Swt potatoes will grow from where the leaves were broken off. Or if you like put the slips in a bucket of water to have the slip producing roots before you plant it.
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Pumpkin 09 Mar, Karan Franks (Australia - temperate climate)
Hello, My Kent pumpkin vine did very well this year producing nearly 30 pumpkins.. My question is while many are ready to harvest I still have baby ones starting to grow is this a normal thing for pumpkins. thank you .
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Pumpkin 10 Mar, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
I had apple cucumbers have 3 flushes of flowers to produce 3 lots of cucumbers. Pumpkins could do the same. It will then take another 50-60 days or so until you will pick these. The soil would have to have more fertilising or the pumpkins would be small in size. Consideration to, you have had a great crop, do you really want to keep going for 2 months more. I think like, I spent $1 on 10 pumpkin seeds and they produced $40-50 of produce, that is great value. Time to rip that crop out and prepare the soil for the next crop.
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Shallots (also Eschalots) 07 Mar, Anon (Australia - temperate climate)
I grow a product which I know as multiplying onions. These produce small bulblets on top of growing leaves which I retain for seed. This seed in due course produces a cluster of around 5-6
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Shallots (also Eschalots) 08 Mar, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Very interesting - thanks for sharing. I just grow shallots. Plant 2-3 together and they produce up to 10-15 stalks, eat in about 6-8 wks.
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Shallots (also Eschalots) 14 Mar, Kiti de Jager (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
I haven't bought scallions for years. I just cut off the bottom half cm with the roots, replant roots, and they grow again. Maybe I should get some new ones, just for fun. I also have 2 types, one with just one bulb, the other multiplying like yours. Just divide the bulbs and replant. They will form new clusters.
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Shallots (also Eschalots) 16 Mar, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
I have used bulbs from one year to the next for 40 years.
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Rosella (also Queensland Jam Plant, Roselle) 07 Mar, Bongani (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate)
Can one grow rosella aquaponically and how large do the plants get?
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Radish 05 Mar, Shouyu Du (USA - Zone 9b climate)
Why do my cherry belle still has a thin bulb growing out of the soil when I have already planted them for 3 weeks
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Radish 08 Mar, Another gardener (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
It says 5-7 weeks to grow, maybe they need a little longer to produce round radishes. Could also be the long thin radishes, mix up of seeds. I have grown radishes for 40 + years, but only recently found better to grow into the winter. I'm about to try something a bit different. I'm going to dig the soil up a bit then pat it down a little then plant the seeds and cover with a thin layer of soil. Sometimes in loose soil the radishes grows and then heavy rain packs the soil a bit and the radishes are sticking out of the ground and they form a long small sausage shape.
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Radish 01 May, (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
I notice radish love compost
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Pumpkin 05 Mar, KO (Australia - temperate climate)
Hi, I live in Perth. Is it too late to plant pumpkins?
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Pumpkin 05 Mar, Liz (New Zealand - temperate climate)
Check on this page : www.gardenate.com/plant/Pumpkin Make sure that your climate zone is showing at the top of the page.
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Pumpkin 08 Mar, Janice (Australia - temperate climate)
Too late for pumpkin. Need to get them in the ground around end sept in Perth
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Horseradish 04 Mar, Desma Cornhill (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate)
Hello. I live in Auckland and am keen to find a piece of horseradish to plant in my garden. Can anyone assist?
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Horseradish 08 Mar, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Try nursery or internet seed selling companies.
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Leeks 04 Mar, Jenny (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
I planted a leek from a seedling in Brisbane in February. It was doing really well until this morning when it went from fine to limp and lying on the ground within the space of about half an hour. Any idea what went wrong? When i peeled the leaves back the inside was literally mush. I thought I might’ve over watered but when I dug the plant out the soil was quite dry
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