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Kale (also Borecole) 07 Jul, Mary (Australia - temperate climate): Grow as much Tuscan kale as you can and make kale chips. I tear the kale into roughly 2 inch squares, put it into a bowl with olive oil and gently coat them. Then separate them, put them in your dehydrator (I only use an excalibur) and dry them till they are crispy. Lay them flat, salt them with pink himalayan and put them in a bowl on the table..I guarantee they will all be gone in 5 minutes..delicious!
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Cape Gooseberry (also Golden Berry, Inca Berry ) 06 Jul, GARY THOMPSON (South Africa - Semi-arid climate): are gooseberry seeds for sale available, or can one simply re-plant a ripe fruit to restart new seedlings? I just happen to have discovered a few plants on the property I'm currently renting.
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Cape Gooseberry (also Golden Berry, Inca Berry ) 28 Jul, Berney (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate): You can sow seeds from the ripe fruitm
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Mustard greens (also gai choy) 05 Jul, Irina shopova (Australia - temperate climate): Hi and thanks! Any information, regards organised planting will be helpful. We have selfsefitiant garden.
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Mustard greens (also gai choy) 07 Jul, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): It says 35-60 cm apart. I would suggest plants 40-50 cm between them and rows 40-50cm apart.
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Horseradish 05 Jul, Kim (Australia - temperate climate): Interested.have you got any spare.
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Horseradish 07 Jul, John (Australia - temperate climate): I can send you some pieces of horseradish root. Please email 'horseradish' to [email protected] with your name and address.
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Horseradish 01 Aug, Val Jefferies (Australia - sub-tropical climate): John, just looked up the net for growing turmeric and noted your comment on horseradish. Absolutely love the stuff but was unaware I could grow it. I would love to be able to get some from you and am willing to pay for it and its postage too if you have any left. Thank You Val
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Cape Gooseberry (also Golden Berry, Inca Berry ) 04 Jul, Bea (Canada - Zone 6b Temperate Warm Summer climate): I've been growing ground cherries for a few years in Halifax. I bought the seed from Annapolis Seed. It is a milder, paler version of cape goose berries. They are good but not as tasty as CGBs. It grows in a husk exacty as CGB but the fruit is very pale, not at all orange like CGB. This past winter I bought some CGB fruit from Pete's fruitique and kept the seed from one berry. It germinated and grew VERY well. Today, July 3, I have a ground cherry and cape gooseberry growing in pots side by side. The CGB has darker green leaves and is a larger plant. The ground cherry has lots of flowers and a few emerging husks. Haven't noticed flowers on the CGB yet. Keeping my fingers crossed they will appear soon and bear lots of fruit. As far as I'm aware, both of these plants are annuals, not perrenial. As is the Sunberry (called Wonderberry in UK). I got this seed from Annapolis Seed too. My first time growing it, but supposed to be similar to blueberries. The plant is only about a foot tall but bushy with lots and lots of flowers.
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Cape Gooseberry (also Golden Berry, Inca Berry ) 26 Sep, Monica (Canada - Zone 5a Temperate Warm Summer climate): I grew sunberries a few years ago. Quite prolific. Birds ate a lot, and a lot self seeded and troubled me as weeds for several years... I am a bad weeder! They are no match for a real wild blueberry as I'd hoped. I grew tomatillos, and ground cherries in different years. Could not eat the tomatillos fast enough, and we had other garden items that tasted better! But the ground cherries didn't produce much and we liked them. Go figure. I know they grow around here, northern Nova Scotia. I am going to try cape gooseberries.. looks like a strong and productive plant. Thanks to all for info posted here.
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Cape Gooseberry (also Golden Berry, Inca Berry ) 15 Mar, Christie Chaplin-Saunders (Canada - Zone 6a Temperate Warm Summer climate): I have 36 tiny Inca berry seedlings emerging from little peat pellets as of today (March 15). I wonder how large they are likely to get before I can transplant them to a cold frame in about eight weeks? In particular, what size pots should I buy for them? Advice will be appreciated!
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Onion 03 Jul, Paris (Australia - cool/mountain climate): I'm about to start growing onions from seeds and it says keep them under cover until early spring when they are ready to be planted out, I'm just wondering exactly what undercover means. Does it mean inside undercover or just out of direct sunlight outside. "Undercover" is very vague and I don't want to mess these up.
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Onion 04 Jul, Liz (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate): When we say 'undercover', we mean somewhere which will not have extremes of temperature and cool down at night. e.g on a covered deck : or in a cool greenhouse.
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Tomato 03 Jul, Len (Australia - temperate climate): How early can I grow tomato seed under a cold frame in Victoria? We don't get frosts, but I was hoping to start sow seeds late July then repot under cover a couple of times before planting out in the garden in October. I know traditionally you wouldn't plant out tomatoes until Melbourne Cup day. I've yet to grow any tomatoes in my garden as this is a new project. Any feedback would be beneficial
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Tomato 07 Jul, Mike (Australia - sub-tropical climate): The guide says start seedlings in Aug Sept. Planting seeds and growing them for 1-2 mths isn't as easy as it sounds, especially if growing undercover. They can become spindly if trying to find light. I'd suggest you wait until August and after they have developed a few leaves give them some sunlight each day to toughen them up.
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Tomato 07 Jul, John (Australia - temperate climate): I'd probably wait until September to sow seed in a cold frame to reduce the chance of having 'leggy' plants.
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Tomato 16 Jul, Len (Australia - temperate climate): Thanks John and Mike. Will hold off until Mid to late August. Much appreciated.
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Strawberries (from seeds) 02 Jul, Motanyane Alfred Makara (South Africa - Semi-arid climate): What is the good planting time for Lesotho, especially the northern part? Leribe area.
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Spinach (also English spinach) 02 Jul, Scott (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I've had great success with English Medania Spinach from D.T. Brown seeds (in sub-tropical area). I planted about 6 weeks ago and they are ready for picking. Packet recommends planting August and Winter for my area.
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Peas 02 Jul, Harry (Australia - temperate climate): How long do peas live for
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Peas 07 Jul, John (Australia - temperate climate): Peas are an annual plant and will get straggly and unproductive later in the season.
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Snow Peas (also Sugar Peas, Mangetout, Chinese Peas) 02 Jul, Man (Australia - temperate climate): Do I need to replant my snow peas annually?
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Snow Peas (also Sugar Peas, Mangetout, Chinese Peas) 02 Jul, Steve (Australia - temperate climate): Yes. Peas are annuals, meaning the plant only lasts for one season. Your plants will set pods for a few weeks and then die off. If you want more then one crop you need to sow seeds every few weeks. Depending on where you live, you can sow snow or snap peas all year round.
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Snow Peas (also Sugar Peas, Mangetout, Chinese Peas) 02 Jul, Charles (Australia - temperate climate): Yep, you sure will. They'll die off in the summer, but they're a great cool weather crop, as they "fix" the nitrogen in the soil by taking it from the air and storing it in nodules in their roots.
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Snow Peas (also Sugar Peas, Mangetout, Chinese Peas) 03 Jul, Man (Australia - temperate climate): Do I need to pull them out then?
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Snow Peas (also Sugar Peas, Mangetout, Chinese Peas) 15 Jul, Sam (Australia - tropical climate): No, best to leave them and dig them into the soil as the nitrogen nodules on the roots are excellent for your veggie patch... all leafy veggies love this.
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Coriander (also Cilantro, Chinese parsley) 01 Jul, georganne (Australia - temperate climate): But andy Youre not suggesting that growing coriander from seed makes it less likely to bolt, are you? Yes...i agree..im finding it best to avoid growing it here in Wollongong as weather gets warm bc it bolts to seed very quickly.....and yes ive grown the sawtooth before...its not as nice. ...and much more chewy and tough....but it hives the fkavohr...just not the volume that normsl coriander does....mmmm....should try and get some to plant in october
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Asparagus 01 Jul, Michael (USA - Zone 5a climate): Is asparagus perennial or annual
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Asparagus 06 Jul, John (Australia - temperate climate): Asparagus is perennial and will bear for around 20 years.
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Tomato 30 Jun, Mike (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Further to my posts below. I have found this which I believe is the problem with my bunchy curly leaves on cherry tomatoes. It is called -Tomato yellow leaf curl virus. TYLCV. Department of Agriculture and Fisheries Qld In March 2006, tomato leaf curl disease was found in cherry tomato crops in the south and west periphery of Brisbane. The disease has been found in many crops, with infection levels ranging from 5 to 100 per cent of plants. Losses in severely affected crops have been very high and the disease is a major threat to tomato production. In April 2006, infected plants were also found around Bundaberg. By June 2007, the virus was present in the Lockyer Valley, Fassifern Valley, Esk, Caboolture and Redlands areas. Since 2009 it has become a serious production constraint around Bundaberg. In February 2011, it was found in backyard tomato plants in Mareeba on the Atherton Tablelands. Tomato leaf curl disease is caused by viruses in the Geminivirus family of plant viruses, and is spread by whiteflies. The virus causing this disease is tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV). This virus is distinct from tomato leaf curl Australia virus (TLCV), which occurs in the Northern Territory and at several locations on Cape York Peninsula. Silverleaf whitefly (Bemisia tabaci Biotype B) was first recorded in Australia in 1994, it is now a widespread pest in Queensland and Western Australia and could become a major pest in most irrigated agricultural areas of Australia. Silverleaf whitefly (SLW) is also known as poinsettia or sweetpotato whitefly and in USA literature it is now referred to as Bemisia argentifolii. SLW has a wide host range (over 500 species) of crops and weeds, and is difficult to control as it has developed resistance to conventional insecticides. Biotype Q was discovered recently in Queensland. There is also an Australian native species. These three biotypes are indistinquishable in the field.
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