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Rocket (also Arugula/Rucola) 04 Feb, (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate)
Some plants need 4-6 hrs sunlight per day some need 6-8 hrs etc. Look up the internet for hrs of sunlight needed for vegetables. You can only give it a try.
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Potato 03 Feb, tristan kawau (Australia - temperate climate)
this so helpful
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Rosella (also Queensland Jam Plant, Roselle) 02 Feb, Clive (Australia - temperate climate)
I have 11 big healthy rosella plants. No fruit or flowers are showing. Bit worried. Grown from seeds from last years plant as well as some seeds i bought off Ebay. Planted in trays Sept and transplanted into garden Oct 2019. Plants have grown quite big but are not flowering. Is it the extra heat this year? Will they still flower?
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Rosella (also Queensland Jam Plant, Roselle) 18 Feb, Clive (Australia - temperate climate)
Things are looking up. 19/02/2020. Buds are appearing on the bushes. First flower out this morning. Awesome
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Rosella (also Queensland Jam Plant, Roselle) 14 Feb, Linda (Australia - tropical climate)
Hi Clive, my Rossellas are pretty much at the same stage and I'm not expecting any flowering until the early early dry season perhaps late April.
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Rosella (also Queensland Jam Plant, Roselle) 03 Feb, Anon (Australia - temperate climate)
It does say 21-25 weeks from sowing. Middle of this month would be about 21 weeks. Hope they flower soon.
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Rosella (also Queensland Jam Plant, Roselle) 03 Feb, Another gardener (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
You may have over fertilised them. Usually when plants are really big and strong and not flowering etc they have had too much fertiliser especially N.
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Sweet corn (also corn,maize) 02 Feb, Enia (New Zealand - cool/mountain climate)
Where can I buy fresh maize to eat please
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Sweet corn (also corn,maize) 03 Feb, (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Maize is generally the term for corn that is high in starch. Corn for boiling bbq etc is sweet corn or super sweet corn. Buy it at a supermarket or garden markets when in season. I grow sweet corn a lot of the year.
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Luffa (also Loofah, plant sponge) 02 Feb, Hanmelie (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate)
We're can I buy loofah seeds in Gauteng?
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Luffa (also Loofah, plant sponge) 17 Feb, Gladwin (South Africa - Humid sub-tropical climate)
send me your address and I'll post a few for you to plant.
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Luffa (also Loofah, plant sponge) 03 Feb, anon (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate)
Look up seed selling companies on the internet in SA.
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Rockmelon (also Canteloupe) 02 Feb, Barbara Mortimer (Australia - temperate climate)
As my rockies are finishing now, what should I plant after them?
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Rockmelon (also Canteloupe) 03 Feb, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
You can plant whatever you like. Just build your soil back up with some compost/manure/fertiliser before you plant again. Plant things you like to eat and easy to grow. They have a planting guide on this website for each month I think.
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Luffa (also Loofah, plant sponge) 02 Feb, Kristina Fischer (USA - Zone 9a climate)
I was just given a huge jar of very healthy looking loofah seeds. Our cold frame just collapsed after six years of heavy use and we don't have funds for another one. Would it be possible to plant the loofah seeds in peat pots in April and still harvest loofah by fall?
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Luffa (also Loofah, plant sponge) 09 Feb, Lura (USA - Zone 8a climate)
check your electric company you can find crates free the ones from the electric company have frames on top perfect for cold frame lid, most have plastic wrapped around them and a pallet bottom. They are a little tall for a cold frame but there are only 4 studs ( in corners) and a few thin cross boards to stabilize the container. We remove the nice frames from the tops, cut the studs to the right height, use the cross boards to frame the bottom. Two boxes will make one 4 x 4 cold frame. every bit free except screws or nails to reassemble.
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Luffa (also Loofah, plant sponge) 13 Aug, Ilonka (USA - Zone 7b climate)
Can you post a picture of those crates? I searched online for them but can’t find any. Thank you in advance ! (Or give a link to a picture - Editor)
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Borage (also Burrage, Bugloss) 02 Feb, Isabel (Australia - temperate climate)
Hi, I come from Spain, in the north basque area, though I live in Perth. I love borage! We eat it as a vegetable, we discard the leaves, clean the stems a bit and chopped in finger lenght size, we boil with potato. Once cooked we add either raw olive oil, after ridding of some of the boiling liquid, or we fry a bit of garlic and add it to the borage together with the oil. Yum!!
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Borage (also Burrage, Bugloss) 25 Mar, Jamie Graham (Australia - temperate climate)
Thanks Isabel. I have borage all around my garden, it is a beautiful plant and the bees love it but I have never quite known what to do with it. Now I do.
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Borage (also Burrage, Bugloss) 13 Aug, Tina Siale (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Hi Jaime, my kids enjoy eating the flowers and we dig the excess plants into the soil as a green manure as borage comes from the same family as comfrey.
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Borage (also Burrage, Bugloss) 22 Mar, Nagore (Australia - temperate climate)
Hola Isabel, me llamo Nagore y me gustaría hacer una huerta así que vine a esta web en busca de información pero por lo visto solo tiene unas zonas climáticas especificas y yo vivo en Navarra en un pueblo cerca de Iruña,como por ahora solo estoy recogiendo información me gustaría saber si me podrías decir un poco como empezar o que plantar por estas fechas y así. Gracias Hi Isabel, my name is Nagore and I would like to make a vegetable garden so I came to this website in search of information but apparently it only has specific climatic zones and I live in Navarra in a town near Iruña, as for now I am only collecting information I would like to know if you could tell me a bit how to start or what to plant around this time and so on. Thank you
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Borage (also Burrage, Bugloss) 24 Mar, Chris (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Hola Nagore, You could try the USA zones 9 or 10. 9a is Portland Oregon (Csb: Warm-summer Mediterranean), 10 is Los Angeles (Csa: Hot-summer Mediterranean). They should be fairly close to the Pamplona coastal mediterranean climate.
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Borage (also Burrage, Bugloss) 03 Feb, anonymous (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
In 1974-5 I holidayed near Santander and Mundaka for a month at each place, loved it. I grew borage last winter spring. Plants grew 1m high and 2m across. Attracted heaps of bees.
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Garlic 02 Feb, william kerr (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
what garlic is best to grow in the gympie region for a commercial crop? where would I get it?
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Garlic 17 Mar, Graham Bower (Australia - temperate climate)
For many years I stuck rigidly to old theory of "plant shortest day" and Harvest longest day. Always very successful, but recent years have experimented to early as mid April. Reasonable success with slightly earlier harvest. but quality not quite as good as later planting.... . In Berwick Vic.
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Garlic 03 Feb, anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Contact the agricultural department in your state.
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Pumpkin 01 Feb, paul polglase (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
I have planted pumpkin seeds from last years plants every little bit of space I can find in my yard this summer, plants are coming up everywhere and noticed the first pumpkins growing and looking very healthy. I was wondering if I can put a illtle bit of chicken manure around each plants base, as I think it,s the best thing to add to the garden, but away from the stems to give them areal kick in the guts?
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Pumpkin 03 Feb, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
You should have done this in preparing the soil before planting the seeds. You need composted manure. Fresh manure won't do much for weeks until it is composted. Your plants will tell you how they are going. Good strong green looking plants don't need a good kick in the guts. Pale yellow weak plants do not have enough fertiliser.
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Mint (also Garden mint) 01 Feb, Denise (New Zealand - temperate climate)
Can I plant mint in January. Just decided I want to plant some
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Mint (also Garden mint) 03 Feb, anon (New Zealand - temperate climate)
Look up mint for your climate zone and check the planting calendar guide.
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