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Cucumber 11 Aug, Ingrid (Australia - temperate climate)
Some websites suggest planting cucumber seeds directly into garden bed, other sites say start in trays. Which is correct ? Thank you.
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Cucumber 20 Aug, Anonymous (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Can do it both ways.
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Sweet Potato (also Kumara) 10 Aug, Frankie (USA - Zone 9b climate)
Trying to grow in my apartment.. any advice welcomed.. what kind of soil should I buy? How often should I water? I don’t get direct sunlight how long should I leave outside on my patio?
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Celery 07 Aug, Margaret Porkolab (Canada - zone 4a Temperate Warm Summer climate)
Could you please show me what you mean in planting and how to rap. My aunt used milk cartons but i was around four yrs old then. My job was to hand her the carton. Thank you.
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Celery 20 Aug, Anonymous (Canada - Zone 5b Temperate Warm Summer climate)
Put something up the side of the plants to stop the sunlight turning the outside leaves green and bitter. You could google it.
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Spring onions (also Scallions, Bunching onions, Welsh onion) 04 Aug, CANDY (Canada - Zone 5b Temperate Warm Summer climate)
HELLO I SOW MY ONION SEEDS IN A SEED TRAY SHOULD I PLANT DIRECTLY IN A BIG CONTAINER - SORRY I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS AM A RETIRED SENIOR I AM NEW TO GARDENING THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP GOD BLESS YOU AMEN!
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Spring onions (also Scallions, Bunching onions, Welsh onion) 20 Aug, Anonymous (Canada - Zone 5b Temperate Warm Summer climate)
Plant direct into your garden.
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Potato 04 Aug, CANDY (Canada - Zone 5b Temperate Warm Summer climate)
I PLANTED POTATOES IN MAY IN A CONTAINER HOW WILL I KNOW WHEN TO HARVEST - THANKYOU
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Potato 20 Aug, Anonymous (Canada - Zone 5b Temperate Warm Summer climate)
Look at the guide to harvest time, 12-16 weeks or just dig around the plant a bit to feel how big they are. Also the plant will start dying.
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Carrot 04 Aug, CANDY (Canada - Zone 5b Temperate Warm Summer climate)
HELLO THERE CAN I SOW CARROT SEEDS DIRECTLY IN CONTAINER (HOMEDEPOT LARGE BUCKET) - AS I LIVE IN A CONDO AND PLANT IT ON BALCONY THANKYOU
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Carrot 14 Nov, Bernadette (Canada - Zone 3b Temperate Warm Summer climate)
i had great success growing carrots in a regular storage container (those blue ones you get from walmart) grew a rainbow variety that wasn't expected to grow as long as some varieties like nantes :) wont know unless you try! (just dont forget to drill holes for proper drainage)
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Dill 04 Aug, Karl Schaller (Australia - tropical climate)
Can I grow dill in this place ? Even in winter it hardly gets below 20 celsius . Forget summertime !
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Dill 20 Aug, Anonymous (Australia - tropical climate)
Plant May June.
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Ginger 28 Jul, dz (USA - Zone 10a climate)
the guide says for Zone 10A to plant ginger in Feb, but sometimes you just have to adapt as things occur. A couple of weeks ago (July), my wife handed me a piece of store bought ginger that had started to grow a shoot, so I put it in a small clean snack cup, added about 1/2" of water, and checked it daily, adding and/or changing water as needed, and in a couple weeks it had grown a lot of roots, and the shoot grew to about 4 inches and opened its third leaf, so this morning I planted it outside in a 5-gallon bucket and will continue to monitor it closely.
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Ginger 10 Nov, Eric (USA - Zone 10b climate)
I have a newly started piece of ginger growing. I am in zone 10 B and was wondering if it would do well through the winter outside or if I should bring it inside. Any insight is appreciated.
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Ginger 26 Feb, dz (USA - Zone 10a climate)
Eric, my ginger grew very well in the 5-gallon bucket and three additional shoots grew up, which I think means new root (rhizome) lobes have grown, and I've been leaving it alone during the winter to see how it does. We had minor frost a couple of nights in January and a lot of my more tropical / warm climate plants took some damage, including the ginger. As of today, the green growth has all died off, so I'll need to carefully check to see if the roots are still solid and not rotting from wet weather. My Taro root in a bucket next to the ginger also died down from the frost but has quickly recovered and is starting to grow some new leaves, so hopefully the ginger starts growing again soon.
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Taro (also Dasheen, cocoyam) 28 Jul, dz (USA - Zone 10a climate)
We live in San Diego "Inland" microclimate Zone 10A and have a serious gopher problem throughout the entire area, so I do 99% of my gardening in containers, including grapes, a guava tree, a fig, Moringas, camote, some herbs like basil, oregano, parsley, sage, rosemary, thyme, and lots of different vegetables. My wife brought home a small 2" taro root from her sister that had started growing a shoot, maybe 1/2". I let it sit on the counter for a couple weeks and the sprout started to dry up, and I have never grown taro so looked it up and discovered it's supposed to be a "water plant", which is good for me because I tend to overwater. I put the root in a small clean snack cup (originally had applesauce in it) and added water about half-way up the root and put it in a sunny east window. In a week it had started growing roots, and within two weeks the sprout got green and started growing again, and a lot more smaller roots started growing at the base of the sprout, so I planted it in a 5-gallon bucket this morning, will water it heavily, and see what happens.
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Taro (also Dasheen, cocoyam) 27 Aug, dz (USA - Zone 10a climate)
I started with the taro out in full sun, but the sun here gets intense and seemed to be stressing the taro, so I moved it into dappled sun under the Guava and it is doing much better. I water it heavily along with the Guava and bananas, and the taro is now about 12 inches high with several very green leaves and more sprouting. Two small shoots have come up next to the main plant, about an inch high, and I don't know if I should leave them alone or separate them and plant them in their own containers. Location seems to be the key, along with warm temperatures in the 80's - 90's, and keep it moist.
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Tomato 28 Jul, SilverShine (New Zealand - cool/mountain climate)
Does anyone know where I can source some seeds for the Alboran variety. It is a winter variety for very low temps.
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Okra (also Ladyfinger, gumbo) 24 Jul, MichelleS (USA - Zone 8b climate)
I live in the south and can grow okra ok but every time I have it got attacked heavy by ants and possibly aphids (the ants may have been farming the aphids?) either way any time my okra would get to flowering the next morning the flower of small okra would be gone. I gave up trying. I put DE on them and that did nothing to deter the ants! I must have a special kind of ants here. Should I even bother trying to grow them?
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Okra (also Ladyfinger, gumbo) 02 Sep, Beavis McScroggins (USA - Zone 7a climate)
The ants actually choose to protect and farm either the okra or the aphids. Both produce sugar that feed the ants. The okra will produce small lesion like bumps that will feed the ants. The aphid leave a sugary waste. I got lucky and my ants killed the aphids. One of my okra plants is completely covered by the ants. I think I put it right above the main nest. I have harvested pods of it, and they are fine. I leave most of the it for the ants on this one. The other only has relatively few ants, and we have been eating/freezing them all summer. I found it kind of fascinating when I first saw/read about it.
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Okra (also Ladyfinger, gumbo) 08 Jul, MichelleS (USA - Zone 9a climate)
As a follow up: I found that if I plant okra several places throughout my garden (not all in one spot) and blast the ants or aphids off with water I’ve been able to grow several varieties of okra successfully this year. Very exciting! I just thought I’d pass on the info in case it helps anyone else with this problem. The aphids and ants don’t come back as soon as I thought they would and it’s worked very well for my cowpeas as well which were also covered in ants and aphids. Spraying them off with water in time saved my plants! No insecticide or BT needed.
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Ginger 22 Jul, (USA - Zone 9b climate)
It also says it will not grow in 9a/b which are warm climates.
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Ginger 27 Jul, (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Try it then.
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Ginger 16 Oct, Trip Bauer (USA - Zone 9b climate)
I've had pretty good success with Ginger on the 9a/9b border. I'm more inland and my property is fairly protected from a lot of wind.
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Onion 22 Jul, Joseph (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate)
Is it okay to plant Texas grano onions in August and September. I am in mpumalanga, South Africa
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Artichokes (Globe) 22 Jul, Olabisi Vincent Ogofohun (South Africa - Humid sub-tropical climate)
Will Artichokes grow in Nigeria?
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Artichokes (Globe) 14 Feb, Bee-Pie's Greens (South Africa - Humid sub-tropical climate)
Yes, artichokes can grow in areas with climates similar to those of the Mediterranean, where they are native.
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Broad Beans (also Fava bean) 20 Jul, Joseph (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
1. Our Broad beans are having plenty of flowers for one month, however, not forming the pods. 2. Plants are having branches and too many leaves, whether it requires pruning? 3. Is the leaves edible? raw or by cooking?
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Broad Beans (also Fava bean) 21 Jul, Celeste Archer (Canada - Zone 5a Temperate Warm Summer climate)
A few things : 1. Do not DEAD HEAD the flowers - the flowers will turn black and wither, and will look ugly, BUT the bean STARTS forming at the base of the dead flower - if you remove the dead flower you might pull off the start of the bean. 2. Everywhere you have a flower, you should get a bean (or two), the beans usually start coming in from the bottom of the plant upward. 3. All parts of the fava bean plant (from the ground up) are edible - flowers, stalk, leaves -- I use the leaves and stalk as my greens in scrambled eggs (once the eggs are pretty much done, just add the fava bean greens in the last 10 seconds, incorporating/folding in and removing from the heat). The first time you try this, it may not be that great, but after 3 times it is rather nice and you might miss them if you don't add them to your eggs. The greens also make a great pesto and can garnish a soup. I have never pruned my fava beans.... but since I do take branches for use in cooking... perhaps I have never let my plants get out of control enough to need to prune them ?????
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