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Choko/Chayote (also Chayote squash, christophene, chouchou, mirliton) 15 Oct, dz (USA - Zone 10a climate): my wife brought home a couple of Chayote that had started sprouting tiny roots out the bottom, so I researched and found that you can carefully split the fruit in half and retrieve the seed, you do not need to plant the entire fruit, but you must be very careful splitting the chayote because the seed is soft, not hard like an avocado or mango, and easily damaged when splitting the fruit. Then I planted them in small starter containers in the kitchen window, and after a few weeks when the shoots had gotten about 2 inches tall, I transplanted them outside into a 5-gallon bucket with a heavy-duty tomato cage as a trellis. A few weeks later one had been eaten by pests and died, but the other is growing and about 6 inches tall. I know this is the wrong timing for growing chayote, but since the seeds had already sprouted roots, I wanted to see what I could do with them. If the one remaining vine survives the winter here in Zone 10A, like my tomatoes and eggplants usually do, maybe it will flower and fruit next year. If a seed package or even a very reputable web site like Gardenate posts a recommended panting time, and your circumstances don't match that recommended timing, try it anyway, you never know what the results might be unless you try. I'll plant potatoes year-round whenever I have any potatoes sprouting slips. I may only get a few baby potatoes when panted "out of season", but it was either try to grow the sprouts or add them to the compost bin. I also grow garlic in Zone 10A even though it is recommended not to. They are smaller than if grown in better climates, but small garlic is better than no garlic, it still tastes great, just use two cloves instead of one.
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Sweet Potato (also Kumara) 15 Oct, Angi (Canada - Zone 8a Mild Temperate climate): Has anyone successfully grown sweet potaotes year round in a greenhouse? This year I did an experiment with one slip from an organic sweet potato, it grew, and grew in a pot and now i have tubers! I would like to try and grow these year round with lights and heat?
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Garlic 14 Oct, Linda (USA - Zone 9a climate): I put in my zone and asked about garlic and this response was below the grid: "Not recommended for growing in USA - Zone 9a regions". Now I know that there is a lot of garlic grown in the USA, so don't know why it said that, in fact I used to live near Gilroy. Other web pages say to plant mid Oct. to Dec. Makes me wonder about the advice on this website. Am I reading it wrong?
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Garlic 03 Aug, Faithn (USA - Zone 9a climate): I 've planted garlic in zone 9a several years & they do great. Softneck & some hard necks are fine to plant in fall for Spring harvest. I recently used Keen organics to buy garlic to plant. There are several good distributors on the net. Keen has great advice. Read it. You can grow garlic successfully.
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Garlic 29 Oct, Christina (USA - Zone 9b climate): I’m in 9b, central California and I have grown garlic for a few years. I “plant on the shortest day of the year, harvest on the longest day.” It has worked. Originally I just started with some organic grocery store garlic clusters, but now I save them from one year for the next.
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Potato 14 Oct, Anonymous (USA - Zone 10a climate): Which varieties of Indeterminate potatoes do well in Zone 10A?
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Tomato 13 Oct, Tim (USA - Zone 10a climate): Great advice
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Strawberry Plants 12 Oct, Gayle in Mississippi (USA - Zone 8b climate): Hi! Can someone suggest a place to buy strawberry plants. I started some from seeds, but only 3 sprouted, so I need more. I live in zone 8b, which has some hot summers. I'm looking for hardy super sweet strawberries. Thank you.
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Strawberry Plants 18 May, Alan James (USA - Zone 10a climate): I bought mine from parkseed.com. I bought barerooted (two varieties) strawberries 20 each they actually sent me like 23 and 25 most are growing. I might lose a few.
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Sunflower 10 Oct, Kathleen (USA - Zone 4a climate): Not sure if Im in zone 4a or 4b (Ossipee, NH). When should I plant sunflower seeds?
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Spinach (also English spinach) 03 Oct, Elaine Fortune (USA - Zone 10a climate): what is the best variety of spinach to grow in zone 10a?
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Chives (also Garden chives) 03 Oct, Robert (USA - Zone 7a climate): If I plant in October when will they be ready to harvest and once they die out in the winter will they grow again in the spring?
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Chives (also Garden chives) 08 Oct, (USA - Zone 7a climate): They will be ready to harvest 7-11 weeks later, so in December/January The roots are still alive and they will begin new growth next spring.
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Strawberry Plants 01 Oct, Anonymous (USA - Zone 8b climate): I saved seeds from strawberries, planted them inside under lights, they sprouted after a long wait and are growing. Plants are tiny and growing very slow. How big should they be before planting outside? It's Oct 1st, zone 8b here. Thank you
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Strawberry Plants 03 Oct, Anonymous (USA - Zone 8b climate): Try late October. They should have 6-8+ leaves. Protect them from the sun the first week or two.
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Strawberry Plants 05 Oct, Gayle (USA - Zone 8b climate): Thank you! I'll do that.
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Pak Choy (also Pak choi) 26 Sep, Mona Williamson (USA - Zone 8b climate): First time grower, how will it look when time to harvest? I have some pretty leaves on it now.
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Pak Choy (also Pak choi) 28 Sep, Anonymous (USA - Zone 5a climate): Check harvest time in the notes - like 6 weeks or whatever it says.
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Garlic 23 Sep, Sonya (USA - Zone 5b climate): I would like to choose 2 types of softneck garlic. Any suggestions on which two to choose? I also heard about elephant garlic. If it will grow in 5B... I may just grow that type. ?????? Undecided!
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Garlic 29 Oct, Kevin K. (USA - Zone 5b climate): Sonya, unfortunately soft neck garlic will not survive the winter in our hardiness zone. That means we get to grow hard neck garlic such as purple garlic or porcelain (music) garlic bulbs. Fortunately we still have time if we hurry.
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Garlic 22 Sep, Nora Jencks (USA - Zone 10a climate): Is there any soft neck garlic varieties that I can grow in my zone (10a)
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Garlic 08 Jan, mohmedelsayd (USA - Zone 10b climate): Short answer yes .. I live in near Cairo Egypt same as zone 10b i grow garlic .. it planted in October and harvest in March or April..
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Garlic 30 Sep, Serena (USA - Zone 10b climate): I live in 10b, I've heard Inchelium Red might grow in my area. I'm trying it for the first time this year - don't have any hopes but you'll never know until you try
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Watermelon 19 Sep, Amanda (USA - Zone 8b climate): I thought my watermelons had died off but in the beginning of this month (September) they decided to start growing again any chance they will actually survive or am I wasting my time?
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Watermelon 20 Sep, Anonymous (USA - Zone 8b climate): It does say plant Feb March.
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Leeks 15 Sep, Dorothy (USA - Zone 5a climate): do leeks survive winter in the ground
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French tarragon 15 Sep, Donna Daniels (USA - Zone 5a climate): I got a cutting in June. It's in my raised bed garden. The nights are cooli ng down. Should I put it in a pot and put it in the cellar? Do I stop watering it for a few months? Thank you.
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Garlic 13 Sep, Deborah Quay (USA - Zone 8a climate): I'm in zone 7b/8a. When should I plant garlic and what are the best types to plant in my zone?
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Garlic 19 Sep, (USA - Zone 8a climate): Best to plant in February/March
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Sunflower 12 Sep, Anonymous (USA - Zone 7a climate): I live in Northern California mountains. Zone 7a. Can I allow mammoth sunflower seeds to drop in fall to winterize before spring?
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