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Sweet Potato (also Kumara) 11 Mar, Tineke (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Brilliant! Mine are growing all over the place - better have a look see soon!!
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Sweet Potato (also Kumara) 10 Mar, ML (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Many ways to grow things. You could have just a patch of swt potatoes and pick whenever you like. I'm growing them in my volunteer gardens. Take a slip of vine (about 40cm long), strip all the leaves off except the last 10cm of the growing tip, plant it along the ground with the tip out of the soil. Swt potatoes will grow from where the leaves were broken off. Or if you like put the slips in a bucket of water to have the slip producing roots before you plant it.
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Pumpkin 09 Mar, Karan Franks (Australia - temperate climate): Hello, My Kent pumpkin vine did very well this year producing nearly 30 pumpkins.. My question is while many are ready to harvest I still have baby ones starting to grow is this a normal thing for pumpkins. thank you .
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Pumpkin 10 Mar, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I had apple cucumbers have 3 flushes of flowers to produce 3 lots of cucumbers. Pumpkins could do the same. It will then take another 50-60 days or so until you will pick these. The soil would have to have more fertilising or the pumpkins would be small in size. Consideration to, you have had a great crop, do you really want to keep going for 2 months more. I think like, I spent $1 on 10 pumpkin seeds and they produced $40-50 of produce, that is great value. Time to rip that crop out and prepare the soil for the next crop.
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Yacon (also Sunroot) 08 Mar, MissChievousRN (USA - Zone 5a climate): Can yacon be grown as a container plant indoors in colder climates? How big of a container?
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Yacon (also Sunroot) 26 Mar, Tim (USA - Zone 8b climate): I would grow it in a "wicking barrel". Use a plastic 55 gallon drum and cut it in half, now you've got two. See how to make one on YouTube. Yacon needs pretty good light so put the barrel close to a large window or enclosed porch.
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Yacon (also Sunroot) 26 Mar, Tim (USA - Zone 8b climate): I wish I could find some yacon to grow! Would you tell me where you found yours. I've been wanting to grow ya on for years out here on the farm but haven't found the tubers.
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Yacon (also Sunroot) 02 Nov, Annette Peck (USA - Zone 8b climate): Hi Tim! Where about do you live? I grow a large crop every year in the springtime. Please contact me if you’re interested in obtain some from me. Annette
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Yacon (also Sunroot) 29 Nov, Tim (USA - Zone 8b climate): Hi Annette, Ate you still growing the Yacon? I live in the north Florida area, Glen St Mary in Baker county. Are you anywhere near me that I could see how you're growing the Yacon, or that I might have a sprout or two? I may have something to trade if you like. Tim
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Yacon (also Sunroot) 21 Aug, Georgial8dy (USA - Zone 7b climate): I just ordered some from www.moonridgefarms.com/farm-products/organic-yacon.
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Radish 08 Mar, Elize (South Africa - Semi-arid climate): How much water do radishes need?
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Radish 08 Mar, ML (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate): A little light watering each day, try and keep the soil moist. During germination and the first few days even twice a day. They have a shallow root system, light watering often.
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Garlic 07 Mar, Joe (USA - Zone 5b climate): Never grew garlic before. Ready to flip garden bed and prepare to plant. Is Northwestern Pennsylvania in spring to early to plant? Thanks.
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Garlic 12 Mar, Martin (USA - Zone 6b climate): We are growing garlic for first time and put them in in the Fall (Oct). They grew rapidly and then laid down for the winter. We are expecting them to jump up as the weather warms and should be ready by early June. From what I understand if you plant in the Spring you will have stunted bulbs.
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Shallots (also Eschalots) 07 Mar, Anon (Australia - temperate climate): I grow a product which I know as multiplying onions. These produce small bulblets on top of growing leaves which I retain for seed. This seed in due course produces a cluster of around 5-6
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Shallots (also Eschalots) 08 Mar, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Very interesting - thanks for sharing. I just grow shallots. Plant 2-3 together and they produce up to 10-15 stalks, eat in about 6-8 wks.
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Shallots (also Eschalots) 14 Mar, Kiti de Jager (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I haven't bought scallions for years. I just cut off the bottom half cm with the roots, replant roots, and they grow again. Maybe I should get some new ones, just for fun. I also have 2 types, one with just one bulb, the other multiplying like yours. Just divide the bulbs and replant. They will form new clusters.
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Shallots (also Eschalots) 16 Mar, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I have used bulbs from one year to the next for 40 years.
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Rosella (also Queensland Jam Plant, Roselle) 07 Mar, Bongani (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate): Can one grow rosella aquaponically and how large do the plants get?
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Radish 05 Mar, Shouyu Du (USA - Zone 9b climate): Why do my cherry belle still has a thin bulb growing out of the soil when I have already planted them for 3 weeks
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Radish 08 Mar, Another gardener (Australia - sub-tropical climate): It says 5-7 weeks to grow, maybe they need a little longer to produce round radishes. Could also be the long thin radishes, mix up of seeds. I have grown radishes for 40 + years, but only recently found better to grow into the winter. I'm about to try something a bit different. I'm going to dig the soil up a bit then pat it down a little then plant the seeds and cover with a thin layer of soil. Sometimes in loose soil the radishes grows and then heavy rain packs the soil a bit and the radishes are sticking out of the ground and they form a long small sausage shape.
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Radish 01 May, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I notice radish love compost
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Potato 05 Mar, peter barker (New Zealand - temperate climate): can i grow seed potatoes in pots from march in Taranaki
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Potato 08 Mar, ML (New Zealand - temperate climate): It says to grow in the spring here. Also says that for sub- tropical Queensland Australia. They grow potatoes from April/May here. Give it a try then.
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Pumpkin 05 Mar, KO (Australia - temperate climate): Hi, I live in Perth. Is it too late to plant pumpkins?
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Pumpkin 05 Mar, Liz (New Zealand - temperate climate): Check on this page : www.gardenate.com/plant/Pumpkin Make sure that your climate zone is showing at the top of the page.
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Pumpkin 08 Mar, Janice (Australia - temperate climate): Too late for pumpkin. Need to get them in the ground around end sept in Perth
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Horseradish 04 Mar, Desma Cornhill (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate): Hello. I live in Auckland and am keen to find a piece of horseradish to plant in my garden. Can anyone assist?
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Horseradish 08 Mar, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Try nursery or internet seed selling companies.
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Horseradish 04 Mar, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Try a nursery or seed selling website.
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