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If you are likely to get frosts then it is best to leave starting the seeds till late winter/spring time
in Chinese cabbage
I want to grow this variety of cabbage. Can I plant it in autumn/winter?
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The beans would have put some nitrogen into the soil.
in Celeriac
In Taupo I'm currently harvesting some whopping celeriac after coming across a punnet in Mitre 10 in January. This is a first for me and I'll be looking to a repeat next season. They've had lots...
in Celeriac
I picked mine up from Mitre 10 Mega - they gave me an excellent harvest, but I don't recall the specific variety (there was more than one variety available).
in Potato
That's because pollination didn't happen. Manually pollinate them by taking a cotton bud, rub the pollen on the female part of the flower.
in Okra
You do cut the runners but only once one or two pumpkins have started to bud from the flower. If you let the runners lead long they sap the goodness from the growing pumpkins making them small and...
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