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Tomatoes are frost tender, so yes you need some sort of protection for them, if you want to grow all the year round.
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How can i grow Tomatoes all year round in CHB Do i need a Greenhouse?????? In winter we get regular frosts
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Onions are hardy plants and so frost tolerant, they will survive the winter. My understanding is If you plant them in Autumn you can harvest them in spring as spring onions but you won't get bulbs...
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Planted bb plants in Invercargill a few weeks ago as climate autumnal. I think they will be good early spring. Often whatever is at garden centres will be an indication on what to put in. Also p...
in Beans - broad beans, fava beans
Mike, you can leave the tubers in the ground in warmer areas of NZ, we have done that in Northland. In fact it is difficult to find all the tubers, so they will probably shoot up in the Spring ev...
in Jerusalem Artichokes
Kings Seeds have corn salad, and also a winter mesclun mix which is good for cool planting
in Corn Salad
So if I've just been given tubers (good gardener but never grown them before), they need to be stored like other tubers (spuds/kumaras) over winter? I have a couple of areas on the north side of a...
in Jerusalem Artichokes
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