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Watermelon 15 Jan, Another gardener (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
I'm sub-tropical Qld - they plant seedlings here late august and pick the melons up until Xmas. Planting later leaves you wide open to heavy rain, hot weather. A lot of rain when the melons are fully developed and they can/will split. Water melon seeds I threw in the garden in Oct germinated within 2-3 weeks. Here you can grow a spring and autumn crop. I would suggest you planted too late. If not growing I don't think the soil is very fertile.
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Sweet Potato (also Kumara) 13 Jan, Paul (South Africa - Dry summer sub-tropical climate)
I m interested in Sweet potato farming where can i get the seedlings or cuttings in the Western cape or eastern cape (NOTE - Gardenate is not intended for farmers )
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Sweet Potato (also Kumara) 16 Jun, Dieter (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate)
You can get sweet potato slips from Living seeds.
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Sweet Potato (also Kumara) 15 Jan, Another gardener (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate)
You would have to look around your local area and find some sweet potato growers. I assume you are just wanting to plant a few. If a lot then ring your agricultural department. You need the new fresh part of the vines, about 1/2 m long, take all the leaves off except the last 3-4 where the tip is growing. Make a furrow in the soil and place the slip along it and cover the vine but leave the last few leaves out of the ground. Lots of water for the first 10 days.
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Horseradish 12 Jan, (New Zealand - temperate climate)
I bought mine on trademe Cheers Lena
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Horseradish 28 Feb, MO (New Zealand - temperate climate)
Be very careful when planting horseradish as it is invasive, confine it to a container.
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Beans - climbing (also Pole beans, Runner beans, Scarlet Runners) 12 Jan, Allison (New Zealand - temperate climate)
Can I plant seed of scarlet runners now, January, and expect them to produce beans?
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Beans - climbing (also Pole beans, Runner beans, Scarlet Runners) 15 Jan, Anon (New Zealand - temperate climate)
Go to the top of the page and look in the calendar months for the Green cells with a white P.
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Coriander (also Cilantro, Chinese parsley) 12 Jan, adam (Australia - temperate climate)
I had great success in 2019 with coriander in Adelaide. now mid of January I have 2 coriander plants ( already bolting) and they started giving me seeds. The STRANGE thing is both of them gave very weird looking seeds, the seeds look more like parsley seeds!! I am 100% sure they started as coriander so no chance I mixed the seeds up when planting. The other thing I should mention they grow very close to Parsely plants, so is it possible to be cross-pollinated? or is it a different variety of coriander? my plan is to harvest the seeds and plant them again and see what will grow! but I wish if someone can tell me what is going on.
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Coriander (also Cilantro, Chinese parsley) 13 Jan, (Australia - temperate climate)
I record what I plant - date, crop, variety, fertiliser I used etc. You could take the seeds to a nursery or try looking up on the net what different seeds look like. I purchased the thick stalked celery seedlings from Bunnings for 6 years and every time they grew into open heart, thin stalks, hollow inside, I believe they were Italian parsley. Have never grown them since. Maybe start with some new seeds.
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Cucumber 12 Jan, Ann O'Hara (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate)
I usually grow very good cucumbers and usually Lebanese variety. This year my plant is covered in cucmbers but instead of starting off green I have an abundance of tiny yellow cucumbers on my vine. What causes this?
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Cucumber 13 Jan, (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Phone an agricultural depart, nursery, or some agri supply company and ask if they have an agronomist. Could be some trace element deficiency.
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Mint (also Garden mint) 11 Jan, Lori (USA - Zone 9a climate)
Can I grow peppermint here if it does not get anything but Morning Sun and lots of water? I just caught a mouse eating all of my ginger and tumeric rhizomes that I spent 8 hrs planting
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Mint (also Garden mint) 17 Jan, colleen (USA - Zone 10b climate)
I used to live in zone 9 and when I grew mint in those conditions (morning sun, plenty of water) it grew like a beast and took over most of my garden. So--yes, it should do great...but be careful what you wish for!
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Rhubarb 11 Jan, Kevin Crosbie (South Africa - Semi-arid climate)
Hi we live in Port Elizabeth and recently started growing a rhubarb plant in a pot. It has being doing fine although some critter has been eating on the leave. I came home yesterday and it looked like it had started wilting so I gave it some water,thus morning it looks like it is dying there are some new leaves at the bottom should I be cutting back the old growth?
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Rhubarb 13 Jan, (South Africa - Semi-arid climate)
I don't grow rhubarb but if the leaves are dead then cut them back.
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Cape Gooseberry (also Golden Berry, Inca Berry ) 10 Jan, Denise (Australia - temperate climate)
How do I ripen the fallen fruit? It’s hull is papery and crisp but still quite green inside. I’ve tried them on a sunny window ledge with no success
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Cape Gooseberry (also Golden Berry, Inca Berry ) 13 Jan, (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
If really immature they probably won't ripen. Think about protecting them from the wind or what caused them to fall off.
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Yacon (also Sunroot) 09 Jan, Greg Bundle (New Zealand - temperate climate)
Can you tell me where to purchase yacon tubers? In nz Thanks Greg
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Yacon (also Sunroot) 12 Jan, Alice Phillips (New Zealand - temperate climate)
You can usually get them on trademe but to get tubers this year you would need a plant that's already underway. I have some available most years if you contact me in August.
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Yacon (also Sunroot) 10 Jan, Anon (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate)
Try seed selling companies on the net.
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Watermelon 07 Jan, Alice Mukondyo (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate)
can red melon be found in Sa all year round???
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Watermelon 09 Jan, Anon (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate)
Are you asking about the seeds or the melon to buy.?
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Tomato 07 Jan, Bill (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
My butter beans plants are producing lots of beans that are growing and then curling up at the ends. What could be causing this and can i treat it with a fertilizer or a spray? I also have Zucchini that the flower covers all of the end rather then the tip they grow about 3-4 inches and then go yellow and shrivel up?
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Tomato 09 Jan, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Research on the internet, what causes curly beans. Go the Gardening know how webpage and read. I think the zucchinis are a bit of a mutated seed or whatever. I had a plant like that, big fat end zucchinis with a big flower. Sounds like the female flowers are not being pollinated. Try it by hand.
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Cabbage 06 Jan, Ian (New Zealand - temperate climate)
I have used, for the first time, garden domes from the ware house. At last I don't have to spray for white butterfly. The domes let nothing in due to the mesh size. Bees can get in but find it hard to get out. So I now have four of these domes. Snails, birds, you name it. Nothing can get in.
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Cucumber 06 Jan, Kathy Hutchinson (Australia - temperate climate)
it s Jan 6th is it too late to plant apple cucumbers plz
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Cucumber 09 Jan, anon (Australia - temperate climate)
Plz read the calendar notes at the top of the page.
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Potato 05 Jan, Sarah-Jane Wicks (Australia - temperate climate)
We used seed potatoes to grow Kilgore in our school garden. As the tops have now died off we harvested them today, only to yield Ferny tiny potatoes. Less than 300g from a whole 3.6m x 1.2m garden bed. The potatoes were watered a minimum of 4-5days per week, were regularly fertilised and grown beside sweetcorn. How did this go so wrong. We yielded less than the bag of seed potatoes that we planted. The soil was beautiful and rich. We mounded around the growth for the first 6weeks. So disappointing. Any help greatly appreciated.
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Potato 06 Jan, Anon (Australia - temperate climate)
I would say you over fertilised them way too much, and probably too much water. That would produce a lot of leaves and little potatoes. In future prepare the ground adding manures compost etc., don't over do it though. They WILL NOT require any more fertilising. When young a lightish watering each day or two. When bigger a good watering 2-3 times a week, depending on temperatures. Put your figer in the soil to see if wet or dry and water accordingly.
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