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Cucumber 05 Jan, Debbie (New Zealand - temperate climate)
Hi, I planted 2 Lebanese cucumbers last year and again this year. Both were/are healthy plants. Issue is..there are many female flowers (hundreds) and they just wither and die. Not a single male flower both seasons. Should I be planting a different variety of cucumber nearby to help with male flowers and pollination? Help!
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Borage (also Burrage, Bugloss) 04 Jan, Linda (United Kingdom - warm/temperate climate)
Something is nibbling my overwintering borage! Some tiny insect is invading it. What might it be and how do I stop it, please?
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Borage (also Burrage, Bugloss) 19 Jan, Celeste Archer (Canada - Zone 5a Temperate Warm Summer climate)
It's probably aphids --- you didn't give a description -- but aphids LOVE borage. Additionally, ANTS enslave aphids, placing them on borage. Ants can tear the wings off of aphids. A recent study has shown that ants can use semiochemicals to stop the aphids from developing wings and to impede their ability to walk away. Ants farm aphids because they produce honeydew, a sugar-rich material that fulfills the nutritional requirement of ants. Your best course of action is to: Support the plant with one hand, and use a blast of water from a watering hose to wash the aphids off the plants. You need to take action immediately as the aphids are feeding on your plants. If the aphids are on a fruit/veggie bearing plant their feeding impedes the ability of the plant to produce nice fruits since its energies are being used to battle the aphids (or their energy is being sucked up by the aphids). Your aphid situation will MOST LIKELY GET WORSE is you ignore it... they multiple pretty quickly.
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Yacon (also Sunroot) 03 Jan, Aaron Mwikisa (South Africa - Humid sub-tropical climate)
Does it mean i can never get these rhizomes here in Zambia? Please if there is a way, am willing to buy some. Kindly help
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Yacon (also Sunroot) 14 Jan, (South Africa - Humid sub-tropical climate)
It says it is unsuitable to grow in your area. Try to buy on the internet if you like.
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Asparagus 02 Jan, Claire (USA - Zone 9b climate)
We have asparagus in raised beds in zone 9b and they are doing great going into our third year Give it a go what is there to lose ?
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Watermelon 02 Jan, (Canada - Zone 3b Temperate Warm Summer climate)
May if you are zone 3b
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Watermelon 02 Jan, (Canada - Zone 3b Temperate Warm Summer climate)
Plant undercover in seed trays in May and then transplant seedlings in June
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Sunflower 30 Dec, paul (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate)
Do Sunflowers and beans grow well together
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Sunflower 04 Jan, Megotu farms (USA - Zone 8b climate)
Paul We grow sunflower with our yard-long beans in North Louisiana to redirect stink bugs .... they grow well together here as the soil does not need anything different ... Marigolds grow well to help with the horn worms ....
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Sunflower 02 Jan, (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
You can.
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Rhubarb 28 Dec, John R Pellegrini (Australia - temperate climate)
what is the best fertilizer for it
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Rhubarb 02 Jan, (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Any general fertiliser is good.
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Onion 26 Dec, alfred rockhold (USA - Zone 6a climate)
i live in wv
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Watermelon 24 Dec, Olawale Kelani (Canada - Zone 3b Temperate Warm Summer climate)
Hi, Please, what is the best time to plant watermelon in New Brumswick, Canada? Thank you.
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Garlic 23 Dec, Sirena (USA - Zone 5b climate)
I’m in zone 5b Chicago South Suburbs. It’s about to be Xmas in 1 day the weather is warm more than normal for this time of year and it’s been raining a lot. Can I still plant garlic?
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Garlic 02 Jan, (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Check the planting guide for your zone.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Brussels sprouts 22 Dec, zach (USA - Zone 8b climate)
Growing sprouts in 8b. im having the issue of them not bunching up and just getting open leaves even though we've had pretty cold weather. any thoughts?
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Chilli peppers (also Hot peppers) 21 Dec, Johannes Mojela (South Africa - Semi-arid climate)
Hello I want to plant chillies for mike comission butI have 500.s/m can you please please advise me what time must I start to plant
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Chilli peppers (also Hot peppers) 02 Jan, (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate)
Check the planting guide for your climate zone.
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Beetroot (also Beets) 20 Dec, Marilyn Treon (USA - Zone 9b climate)
Planting little at a time. in Zone 9 I have Beets to go in wondering when I see May is a good time?
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Beetroot (also Beets) 02 Jan, (USA - Zone 9a climate)
Check the planting guide for zone 9.
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Celery 17 Dec, Rene (USA - Zone 9b climate)
It's mid December, is it too late to start celery from seed?
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Celery 18 Dec, (USA - Zone 9b climate)
December is the perfect time to sow seeds for celery! Best to do it in an undercover seed tray, then in February you can transplant the seedlings.
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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.
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Ginger 16 Dec, Ebrahim (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate)
Need advice on growing ginger and garlic in Durban
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