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Potato 15 Mar, Loreley dunwell (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Where can I buy seed potatoes, please. We are in the Lockyer valley. Last year we grew sebago and had a wonderful crop but can’t find any at the moment,
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Potato 31 May, Rebecca (Australia - tropical climate): Happy Valley Seeds has some at the moment
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Potato 21 Mar, Anonymous (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Try some produce agency (supplies to farmers of farming stuff), then a nursery or on line.
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Garlic 12 Mar, Kay (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I live in Logan and would love to grow garlic but have had no success so if you can provide name of garlic and where to get the corms please Thanking you Kay
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Garlic 28 Mar, Elena (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Italian Pink is suitable for our climate
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Garlic 17 Mar, marco (Australia - sub-tropical climate): google .organic shop vegetables. you can pick up 3 organic hard neck for about 10 dollars ... australian red for gold coast or logan ...soak in water , i use worm compost water for 1 night before planting ..
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Garlic 15 Mar, Anonymous (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Buy from a nursery Bunnings Boondie Seeds or on the internet. Plant soon late April to June.
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Beetroot (also Beets) 12 Mar, Stephen MUSGRAVE (Australia - temperate climate): You say not to grow beetroot near carrots. What happens if they are close together
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Chilli peppers (also Hot peppers) 11 Mar, Luis O. (USA - Zone 9a climate): Will Habaneros or Ghost Peppers grow in Zone 9a?
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Chilli peppers (also Hot peppers) 21 Mar, Anonymous (USA - Zone 9a climate): Check the planting guide.
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Corn Salad (also Lamb's lettuce or Mache) 10 Mar, Pat leitch (Canada - Zone 3a Temperate Short Summer climate): Where can I buy seed for lambs lettuce and where does it grow in Canada?
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Corn Salad (also Lamb's lettuce or Mache) 21 Mar, Anonymous (Canada - zone 4a Temperate Warm Summer climate): Check the planting guide for your climate zone and check internet for seed sellers.
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Silverbeet (also Swiss Chard or Mangold) 10 Mar, Alex (Australia - temperate climate): What is the large curly leaf silver beet name
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Silverbeet (also Swiss Chard or Mangold) 16 Mar, Berylee Lay (Australia - temperate climate): It's usually called Fordhook Giant on the punnet labels.
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Silverbeet (also Swiss Chard or Mangold) 10 Mar, Birgitt (Australia - temperate climate): If you're after the Latin name, my label says Beta vulgaris var. cicla : Amaranthaceae / the amaranth family (It's on the silverbeet page of Gardenate - Editor)
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Amaranth (also Love-lies-bleeding) 09 Mar, Collie_Handyman 46 (Australia - temperate climate): amaranth should grow in Darwin in the Dry season it germinates in the south west south of Perth in march Darwin temp never gets below 17 deg in June and July I lived in Humpty Doo south of Darwin and grew it and Rosellas for about 30 years used to add the seeds to Homemade bread .
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Sweet corn (also corn,maize) 08 Mar, harvey (USA - Zone 11b climate): What organic corn varieties and organic soybean varieties grow well in climate zone 11A-11B?
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Cucumber 08 Mar, Eric (Canada - Zone 3b Temperate Warm Summer climate): Is the "Tasty Green" variety an indoor variety or an outdoor variety? Because I heard you have to pinch off the male flowers for indoor varieties or the cucumbers will taste bitter, and for outdoor varieties, the cucumbers will require pollination.
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Squash (also Crookneck, Pattypan, Summer squash) 07 Mar, Amanda (USA - Zone 6a climate): Which squash varities can trellis? Some say trellis summer because winter is too heavy. Some say you cant trellis summer squash because its a bush plant and only winter squash will vine/trellis. Please help.
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Squash (also Crookneck, Pattypan, Summer squash) 13 Jul, Kathryn (USA - Zone 9b climate): Some varieties of both winter and summer squash trellis while others do not. You just need to pick a small, vining variety. I too have heard that it's not worth trellising any type of summer squash because the vines are not so long that you save much space... so here I am with Pattypan dancing circles around their 8ft bed. Next year they're going on a trellis. For winters, focus more on size; I've seen pictures of Kabocha on a good, strong trellis but not sure which varieties like your cooler climate.
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Garlic 07 Mar, Emma (Australia - tropical climate): Good afternoon, I am trying to find a supplier for SOFT NECK GARLIC to plant in a home garden not commercial, I live in Far North QLD in the Tablelands (Dambulla). Would like some information as to time to plant or any other types of GARLIC that would grow well here. Thanking you in advance!
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Garlic 10 Mar, Rod (Australia - temperate climate): Emma, try Tasmanian gourmet garlic. They sell to people up here like us. If you're in Danbullah you are probably subtropical or temperate (like us at Lake Eacham). They have some great information on their website as well. Start of May is the time to plant, depending on how wet it is.
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Garlic 21 Mar, Emma Vela (Australia - tropical climate): Thank you ROD from Lake Eacham for your information, cheers.
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Potato 05 Mar, Phyllis Wright (Canada - Zone 8a Mild Temperate climate): If I plant my potatoes now, do I keep them in my unheated garage which gets a bit of light or put them outside where we are still getting below 0 temperatures?
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Potato 06 Mar, Celeste Archer (Canada - Zone 5a Temperate Warm Summer climate): Potatoes can go in the ground now -- the cold temperatures won't do anything to them. In fall when I harvest my potatoes I tend to miss a few (those little tiny ones) -- and they are in the garden all winter (sometimes temps drop as low as -10c) and they still grow. Generally speaking, potatoes can be planted as soon as the ground can be worked. Don't forget to add lots of potassium (also called potash) to the soil.... potatoes LOVE potassium.
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Onion 05 Mar, Lori (Canada - zone 4a Temperate Warm Summer climate): What onions grow best in zone 4a?
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Garlic 05 Mar, (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate): The temperature in the freestate goes down to minus 10 ⁰c and 39 ⁰c in summer. Can i plant garlic to grow during the winter here?
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Garlic 16 Mar, Celeste Archer (Canada - Zone 5a Temperate Warm Summer climate): I generally have garlic in my compost -- little bits that have maybe rotted a bit, and I can't even imagine how they grow -- but anyhow ---- I dig kitchen scraps directly into the garden over winter. Winter here gets down to about -10c for short periods of time (several nights in a row, for half a dozen hours at a time) -- generally winter temps are closer to -3c at night. Anyhow, come spring the areas where I have dug in kitchen scraps directly into the garden are usually sprouting : potatoes and garlic (among other things). So despite that I am actually planting garlic in winter, it will not grow until spring. I also grow garlic via the two year method (collecting seeds called bulbils - planting them immediately upon collection (so fall) )-- they grow in spring -- and then next year, they grow the garlic. Depending on the TYPE of garlic you are growing you can get 60 or more bulbils from one flower -- so this is economical if you have the SPACE. Again, the garlic is overwintered directly in the garden. In my area/zone, you have to yank out garlic if you don't want it -- because it just seems to grow and grow (same thing with fuchsia and potatoes).
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Garlic 06 Mar, (South Africa - Dry summer sub-tropical climate): It says to plant Feb to April.
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Turnip 05 Mar, Rob Lawrence (South Africa - Semi-arid climate): how to grow swede in capetown I have the seed.
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