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30 Mar 20, Eddie (Australia - cool/mountain climate)

My dad said he used to pull the whole plant out and hang it in a shed and the tomatoes would vine ripen then finish off on the windowsill.

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04 Mar 20, ML (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

Ethylene gas ripens tomatoes and some other fruit. Add a few bananas to them. Suggest you read up about how to ripen tomatoes on the internet. Read different articles. Also see if you can start your seedlings earlier in future so that they grow/ ripen earlier in future.

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08 Mar 20, anonymous (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

Also most fruit take a few weeks from being fully developed to then ripen, 3-5 weeks. Same applies to pumpkin, rockmelons, watermelons etc.

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27 Feb 20, Luke (Australia - temperate climate)

Any advice on best cool climate tomato varieties for a greenhouse in Melbourne between March and October? Thanks in advance

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01 Mar 20, Anon (Australia - temperate climate)

You are temperate, a greenhouse will raise the temperature in it. Most varieties would grow in it. Ask at your local nursery etc.

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19 Jan 20, Carol (Australia - temperate climate)

To keep the slugs, caterpillars from Tomatoes and other vegetables away break egg shells up and spread around plants. Works great

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15 Jan 20, Mish (Australia - temperate climate)

We have been experiencing very hot, dry days. Up to 42 degrees Celsius. Could this be the reason that my tomato plants died? They were watered regularly & kept in the shade.

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15 Jan 20, Another gardener (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

I think it could just be seasonal. My tomatoes were going great (Nov and into Dec picking) and towards the end the whole plant just died off quite quickly. Same conditions as you, hot weather. In a lot of crops you can have early mid and late season varieties.

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07 Jan 20, Bill (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

My butter beans plants are producing lots of beans that are growing and then curling up at the ends. What could be causing this and can i treat it with a fertilizer or a spray? I also have Zucchini that the flower covers all of the end rather then the tip they grow about 3-4 inches and then go yellow and shrivel up?

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09 Jan 20, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

Research on the internet, what causes curly beans. Go the Gardening know how webpage and read. I think the zucchinis are a bit of a mutated seed or whatever. I had a plant like that, big fat end zucchinis with a big flower. Sounds like the female flowers are not being pollinated. Try it by hand.

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