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Eggplant (also Aubergine) 19 Aug, Verna Arts (New Zealand - cool/mountain climate): For the last 2 seasons I have planted Eggplant plants in raised beds in my garden north of Auckland. Both years The plants have immediately flowered and produced small fruit but neither the plant or the fruit have grown from then on What am I doing wrong? The raised beds are filled with garden mix and I use a fairly generous amount of fertilizer.
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Eggplant (also Aubergine) 20 Aug, Anonymous (Australia - cool/mountain climate): The guide here says plant Sept Oct. They are a warm weather crop. You probably need 5-600mm deep soil and the same in width. Good rich soil, deep water 2-3 times a week and give a hit of fert after your first 2-3 weeks of picking. Don't go over board on the fertiliser though.
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Eggplant (also Aubergine) 19 Aug, Liz (New Zealand - temperate climate): Eggplants need plenty of water. Perhaps yours are drying out too quickly in your raised beds.
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Eggplant (also Aubergine) 02 Sep, em (Australia - temperate climate): I found that my eggplants needed a lot of water and they really appreciated a good mulch (I mostly just mulched with grass clippings) and they grew until the end of autumn.
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Cabbage 19 Aug, philip hope (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I am growing curly leaf cabbage, and which are growing well, and I think almost ready for harvest. Do we treat and cook these the same as the other types and harvest when the heart is pretty high and hard?
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Cabbage 20 Aug, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Google how to use it - similar to normal cabbage. More for salady stuff I feel. It is a looser leaf head, so if big enough and hard start eating. The weather is going to turn warm and hot over the next 4-6 weeks.
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Tomato 18 Aug, Jane (USA - Zone 9a climate): What are the best tomatoes to grow in 9a to slice in salads and sandwiches?
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Tomato 19 Aug, (USA - Zone 6b climate): Look at the different tomatoes on a seed selling website that might suit your climate. Most varieties would grow in your area probably. The more important thing is plant them the right time of year.
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Rhubarb 18 Aug, Anne (South Africa - Semi-arid climate): How should the rhubarb be kept over winter if kept in a pot? I believe they need the cold period. My young plant looked half dead until I put it in our warm light grow room for now, but I believe that wouldn't be a year round solution, is that right?
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Rhubarb 20 Aug, Anon (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate): Check online how to plant grow and harvest it.
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Carrot 17 Aug, Fran (USA - Zone 6b climate): Will it be too late to sow these in early September?
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Broccoli 17 Aug, ashley shepherd (New Zealand - temperate climate): my seedlings keep getting ruined, they start to grow then fall over/out with no roots left. I dug around and looks like grass grubs in my beds how do I rid my garden bed of these?
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Broccoli 20 Feb, Jay (New Zealand - cool/mountain climate): Perhaps they are still too small - transplant shock ? try letting them grow larger maybe and soak the furrow first not the plant after till established.
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Broccoli 19 Aug, Anonymous (New Zealand - temperate climate): Ring an agricultural supply company and ask to talk to an agronomists. Would probably be some grub or worm in the soil. I have never had the problem in 40 years.
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Tomato 17 Aug, Jerry nordin (USA - Zone 6b climate): Planted indeterminate in April hard freeze late in may covered plants at night until night temps reached 60f. Planted in elevated box planters. Is this enough soil for the roots plants never really produced. Im looking at the last tomato of the year 8-17-20.
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Tomato 19 Aug, Anonymous (USA - Zone 6b climate): Tomatoes need good rich deep soil. Dig your soil about 40cm deep x about 60cm across. Put some fertiliser in the bottom of the hole and mix with some soil. Keep doing this until the hole is only 10cm deep. Put some Epsom salts in the hole also. When the plant has grown 60-80cm high fill the soil in around the plant and even hill it up a bit. Put some compost/mulch around the plant. Tomatoes need a good deep watering 2-3 times a week.
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Strawberry Plants 17 Aug, Deborah (Australia - sub-tropical climate): My rootstock strawberries have produced flowers. I read I should deflower for the first season to strengthen the root system. Since I live in a sub-tropical climate, when should I stop deflowering?
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Strawberry Plants 16 Jan, Zyllas (Australia - temperate climate): Most they will not make them flower and runner for another 6 mos straight since they want the plant to focus on growing not reproducing. They prefer the stem/crown atleast thickness of our pinky or ring finger by then if you let it flower it will give you dozen since plant are mature enough for reproduction. Some people let 1 runner at a time while plants is bearing ofcourse you need to provide fertiliser to support the whole process like NPK 20-20-20 and cacium nitrate
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Strawberry Plants 19 Aug, Anonymous (Australia - temperate climate): I'm sub-tropical (Bundaberg) and strawberries are grown commercially here. They plant new stock each year in first week of April -depends on temperature soil/air. They start picking strawberries in late June. It is probably the height of the picking season now. The deflowering sounds like rubbish to me. Commercial growers only pick one crop and then plough out. Home gardens can pick off the same plants for 2-3 years and then you require new stock again. If you do this then you have to contend with the old plants sending out new runners each year.
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Strawberry Plants 04 Oct, Veronica (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Hi, with respect to your comment about the commercial growers ploughing the crops back in at the end of the season, do you have any idea where they get the next year's "seedlings" from? Many thanks
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Strawberry Plants 30 Oct, Bernie (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I got my initial supply of runners from Sweet Strawberry Runners in the Stanthorpe area. I purchased 25 runners and now have 60 plants. I grow then as a green wall in three rows of 20 pots. Each year I discard the bottom row and then move the others down one row and plant new runner to form the top row. This way you replace your plants every three years and you never forget which plants to discard. As for deflowering, that is garbage. I get beautifully sweet berries from my first year crop. You maybe a bit late to start now but if you contact Sweet Runners they will let you know what varieties are growing and when they will be ready . Good luck and happy eating.
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Strawberry Plants 22 Aug, Deborah (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Thankyou
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Strawberry Plants 03 Sep, Anonymous (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Talked to a grower last week and they plant mid March (St Paddy's Day) and are starting to pick fruit 8 weeks later.
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Asparagus 17 Aug, Michael Archer (Australia - temperate climate): I purchased some purple asparagus seedlings 1 year ago (Aug 19) Perth WA Planted them out Dec 19. 1 large female bush is still growing spears up to 15mm thick in July 20 and shows no signs of weakening. I have resisted the temptation to eat the spears, but with spring approaching I am wondering if I should prune it or just leave it to the ravages of climate change. Needless to say I am collecting the berries. Michael
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Asparagus 19 Aug, Anonymous (Australia - temperate climate): A suggestion, stop watering asparagus at the end of May, let the ferns die off. Then around now to early September, cut all the ferns off at ground level. Scatter some fertiliser on the top of the soil and put 150mm of compost/manures etc on top of that. Start water again.
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Taro (also Dasheen, cocoyam) 16 Aug, Mercy (South Africa - Humid sub-tropical climate): Hi , I am in capetown is it possible to farm these here. and where can i get the seeds/cuttings for planting
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Taro (also Dasheen, cocoyam) 17 Aug, Anonymous (South Africa - Humid sub-tropical climate): If you are humid sub-tropical then in the calendar guide for Taro is does not recommend growing them there. If wanting to plant look up a seed selling website.
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Okra (also Ladyfinger, gumbo) 16 Aug, Rachelle Brunetta (USA - Zone 10b climate): I am in San Diego zone 10b, is it too late to plant okra in mid August ? (Gardenate : Check here www.gardenate.com/plant/Okra?zone=100 )
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Okra (also Ladyfinger, gumbo) 09 Sep, Sandra (USA - Zone 10b climate): You can continue to plant okra so long as your weather stays warm to hot, so I just planted out 3 plants about two inches tall, they should produce until it’s too cold for them, they may live through the cold and maybe not. But do plant them where they get full sun all day whether the weather is cold or hot, they tolerate drought, very tough plant. Freeze anything you don’t eat right away. Pick often to produce more.
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Okra (also Ladyfinger, gumbo) 22 Aug, colleen (USA - Zone 10b climate): Hi! I'm also in San Diego 10b. Sometimes my okra makes it all the way through the winter and sometimes it doesn't (same with my eggplants), as they're both perennials that hate frost. So much of it is luck--or where they're planted in the yard. If they're near my South wall they always make it. I say give it a shot! They'll grow FAST at first, much faster than when planted in March. You'll get a small harvest in November, and then the plants will not grow much until the weather warms back up in Feb/March, if they make it. I suggest cutting them to 1-2 feet tall in late November and covering them with garden fleece anytime light frost is threatened. If they survive the winter they'll come back in a bushier form and you'll be way ahead for next year.
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