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Beans - climbing (also Pole beans, Runner beans, Scarlet Runners) 06 Sep, Anonymous (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Try googling about the rust problem.
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Beans - dwarf (also French beans, Bush beans) 23 Aug, Sugu (USA - Zone 10b climate)
Hi, Can I sow Yard Long Bean Seeds and Purple Hyacinth Bean Seeds in the month of August?
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Onion 20 Aug, Michael (Australia - temperate climate)
Can you please tell me the best varieties of onion to plant now. Live at Canowindra NSW Thanking you
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Onion 06 Sep, Anonymous (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Which ever variety you prefer.
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Collards (also Collard greens, Borekale) 18 Aug, Stephen Carter (USA - Zone 8b climate)
What is the best fertilizer for collard greens and how to apply it for best results.
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Cucumber 18 Aug, Sakkie pieterse (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate)
How many fruit can you take from one cumcumer plant
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Cucumber 18 Jul, Robert (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate)
I grew Ashley cucumbers, and got between 15 to 18 fruit per plant.
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NZ Spinach (also Warrigal greens) 17 Aug, Jamie (Australia - temperate climate)
I live on the coast and rather than bothering with Warrigal greens I munch the indigenous Bower Spinach (Tetragonia implexicoma). Very similar plant except that it climbs and drapes curtains of succulent greenery off long trailing stems from the lower branches of the local tea trees. It is good tucker and being by the sea it is naturally salty.
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Jerusalem Artichokes (also Sunchoke) 17 Aug, Jamie (Australia - temperate climate)
It took a while but I have learned to love Sunchokes. Undoubtedly the easiest and most prolific vegetable of them all. But what to do with them ? Boil them, roast them, grate them into salads, slice them into stir fry. I use them mainly as a filler. They thicken soups and stews and I mash them up with my spuds. Very economical. they don’t have a long shelf life (which is why they are ridiculously expensive) so I tend to leave them in the ground until I use them. If you have a lot of sunchokes - and you will - you can be brutal when you peel them. But keep the peelings out of the compost or you’ll end up with sunchokes everywhere ! Warning : They can be ‘noisy’. Not recommended for date night or before attending the cinema.
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Artichokes (Globe) 15 Aug, Roz McWilliam (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
I would like to grow globe artichokes in Townsville (dry tropics). Is this possible please and if yes what’s the best way? Cheers
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Artichokes (Globe) 06 Sep, Anonymous (Australia - tropical climate)
Set your climate zone to Tropical and read the notes about growing it.
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Eggplant (also Aubergine) 11 Aug, Jock Macdonald (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
How to hand pollinate egg plant
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Eggplant (also Aubergine) 06 Sep, Anonymous (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Give the bush a light shake about 9-10am.
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Cucumber 11 Aug, Ingrid (Australia - temperate climate)
Some websites suggest planting cucumber seeds directly into garden bed, other sites say start in trays. Which is correct ? Thank you.
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Cucumber 20 Aug, Anonymous (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Can do it both ways.
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Sweet Potato (also Kumara) 10 Aug, Frankie (USA - Zone 9b climate)
Trying to grow in my apartment.. any advice welcomed.. what kind of soil should I buy? How often should I water? I don’t get direct sunlight how long should I leave outside on my patio?
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Celery 07 Aug, Margaret Porkolab (Canada - zone 4a Temperate Warm Summer climate)
Could you please show me what you mean in planting and how to rap. My aunt used milk cartons but i was around four yrs old then. My job was to hand her the carton. Thank you.
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Celery 20 Aug, Anonymous (Canada - Zone 5b Temperate Warm Summer climate)
Put something up the side of the plants to stop the sunlight turning the outside leaves green and bitter. You could google it.
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Spring onions (also Scallions, Bunching onions, Welsh onion) 04 Aug, CANDY (Canada - Zone 5b Temperate Warm Summer climate)
HELLO I SOW MY ONION SEEDS IN A SEED TRAY SHOULD I PLANT DIRECTLY IN A BIG CONTAINER - SORRY I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS AM A RETIRED SENIOR I AM NEW TO GARDENING THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP GOD BLESS YOU AMEN!
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Spring onions (also Scallions, Bunching onions, Welsh onion) 20 Aug, Anonymous (Canada - Zone 5b Temperate Warm Summer climate)
Plant direct into your garden.
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Potato 04 Aug, CANDY (Canada - Zone 5b Temperate Warm Summer climate)
I PLANTED POTATOES IN MAY IN A CONTAINER HOW WILL I KNOW WHEN TO HARVEST - THANKYOU
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Potato 20 Aug, Anonymous (Canada - Zone 5b Temperate Warm Summer climate)
Look at the guide to harvest time, 12-16 weeks or just dig around the plant a bit to feel how big they are. Also the plant will start dying.
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Carrot 04 Aug, CANDY (Canada - Zone 5b Temperate Warm Summer climate)
HELLO THERE CAN I SOW CARROT SEEDS DIRECTLY IN CONTAINER (HOMEDEPOT LARGE BUCKET) - AS I LIVE IN A CONDO AND PLANT IT ON BALCONY THANKYOU
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Carrot 14 Nov, Bernadette (Canada - Zone 3b Temperate Warm Summer climate)
i had great success growing carrots in a regular storage container (those blue ones you get from walmart) grew a rainbow variety that wasn't expected to grow as long as some varieties like nantes :) wont know unless you try! (just dont forget to drill holes for proper drainage)
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Dill 04 Aug, Karl Schaller (Australia - tropical climate)
Can I grow dill in this place ? Even in winter it hardly gets below 20 celsius . Forget summertime !
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Dill 20 Aug, Anonymous (Australia - tropical climate)
Plant May June.
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Ginger 28 Jul, dz (USA - Zone 10a climate)
the guide says for Zone 10A to plant ginger in Feb, but sometimes you just have to adapt as things occur. A couple of weeks ago (July), my wife handed me a piece of store bought ginger that had started to grow a shoot, so I put it in a small clean snack cup, added about 1/2" of water, and checked it daily, adding and/or changing water as needed, and in a couple weeks it had grown a lot of roots, and the shoot grew to about 4 inches and opened its third leaf, so this morning I planted it outside in a 5-gallon bucket and will continue to monitor it closely.
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Ginger 10 Nov, Eric (USA - Zone 10b climate)
I have a newly started piece of ginger growing. I am in zone 10 B and was wondering if it would do well through the winter outside or if I should bring it inside. Any insight is appreciated.
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Ginger 26 Feb, dz (USA - Zone 10a climate)
Eric, my ginger grew very well in the 5-gallon bucket and three additional shoots grew up, which I think means new root (rhizome) lobes have grown, and I've been leaving it alone during the winter to see how it does. We had minor frost a couple of nights in January and a lot of my more tropical / warm climate plants took some damage, including the ginger. As of today, the green growth has all died off, so I'll need to carefully check to see if the roots are still solid and not rotting from wet weather. My Taro root in a bucket next to the ginger also died down from the frost but has quickly recovered and is starting to grow some new leaves, so hopefully the ginger starts growing again soon.
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Taro (also Dasheen, cocoyam) 28 Jul, dz (USA - Zone 10a climate)
We live in San Diego "Inland" microclimate Zone 10A and have a serious gopher problem throughout the entire area, so I do 99% of my gardening in containers, including grapes, a guava tree, a fig, Moringas, camote, some herbs like basil, oregano, parsley, sage, rosemary, thyme, and lots of different vegetables. My wife brought home a small 2" taro root from her sister that had started growing a shoot, maybe 1/2". I let it sit on the counter for a couple weeks and the sprout started to dry up, and I have never grown taro so looked it up and discovered it's supposed to be a "water plant", which is good for me because I tend to overwater. I put the root in a small clean snack cup (originally had applesauce in it) and added water about half-way up the root and put it in a sunny east window. In a week it had started growing roots, and within two weeks the sprout got green and started growing again, and a lot more smaller roots started growing at the base of the sprout, so I planted it in a 5-gallon bucket this morning, will water it heavily, and see what happens.
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