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Lettuce 22 Nov, (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate): When they have 6-8 new leaves. Keep them protected from the sun for a couple of days. Plant in the late afternoon.
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Rosella (also Queensland Jam Plant, Roselle) 18 Oct, Anne (Australia - tropical climate): Can I freeze the raw fruit until I have enough to be able to make jam.
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Rosella (also Queensland Jam Plant, Roselle) 19 Oct, Anonymous (Australia - sub-tropical climate): yes
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Coriander (also Cilantro, Chinese parsley) 17 Oct, Vaughn (South Africa - Semi-arid climate): You say that harvest is in 30 to 45 days….is that from seed or from germination?
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Coriander (also Cilantro, Chinese parsley) 22 Nov, (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate): Probably from germination - you will work it out.
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Jerusalem Artichokes (also Sunchoke) 16 Oct, Tina (USA - Zone 5a climate): Yikes, I thought I could grow Sunchokes in zone 5 and bought a few. What do I do now? Can I still plant them in sunny spot or eat and wait next year? Are they still good if they got soft? I forgot them in the garage for a week. Thanks!
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Jerusalem Artichokes (also Sunchoke) 15 Oct, Dave M. (New Zealand - temperate climate): Could you point me towards an NZ supplier please. Not having much luck finding one. Thank you.
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Jerusalem Artichokes (also Sunchoke) 18 Nov, Cesare Stella (New Zealand - cool/mountain climate): just get some from the supermarket
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Jerusalem Artichokes (also Sunchoke) 19 Oct, (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate): Try the internet.
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Choko/Chayote (also Chayote squash, christophene, chouchou, mirliton) 15 Oct, dz (USA - Zone 10a climate): my wife brought home a couple of Chayote that had started sprouting tiny roots out the bottom, so I researched and found that you can carefully split the fruit in half and retrieve the seed, you do not need to plant the entire fruit, but you must be very careful splitting the chayote because the seed is soft, not hard like an avocado or mango, and easily damaged when splitting the fruit. Then I planted them in small starter containers in the kitchen window, and after a few weeks when the shoots had gotten about 2 inches tall, I transplanted them outside into a 5-gallon bucket with a heavy-duty tomato cage as a trellis. A few weeks later one had been eaten by pests and died, but the other is growing and about 6 inches tall. I know this is the wrong timing for growing chayote, but since the seeds had already sprouted roots, I wanted to see what I could do with them. If the one remaining vine survives the winter here in Zone 10A, like my tomatoes and eggplants usually do, maybe it will flower and fruit next year. If a seed package or even a very reputable web site like Gardenate posts a recommended panting time, and your circumstances don't match that recommended timing, try it anyway, you never know what the results might be unless you try. I'll plant potatoes year-round whenever I have any potatoes sprouting slips. I may only get a few baby potatoes when panted "out of season", but it was either try to grow the sprouts or add them to the compost bin. I also grow garlic in Zone 10A even though it is recommended not to. They are smaller than if grown in better climates, but small garlic is better than no garlic, it still tastes great, just use two cloves instead of one.
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Sweet Potato (also Kumara) 15 Oct, Angi (Canada - Zone 8a Mild Temperate climate): Has anyone successfully grown sweet potaotes year round in a greenhouse? This year I did an experiment with one slip from an organic sweet potato, it grew, and grew in a pot and now i have tubers! I would like to try and grow these year round with lights and heat?
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Yacon (also Sunroot) 15 Oct, Berry (USA - Zone 13b climate): I am looking for a souce to order yacon rhizomes for planting..
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Garlic 14 Oct, Linda (USA - Zone 9a climate): I put in my zone and asked about garlic and this response was below the grid: "Not recommended for growing in USA - Zone 9a regions". Now I know that there is a lot of garlic grown in the USA, so don't know why it said that, in fact I used to live near Gilroy. Other web pages say to plant mid Oct. to Dec. Makes me wonder about the advice on this website. Am I reading it wrong?
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Garlic 03 Aug, Faithn (USA - Zone 9a climate): I 've planted garlic in zone 9a several years & they do great. Softneck & some hard necks are fine to plant in fall for Spring harvest. I recently used Keen organics to buy garlic to plant. There are several good distributors on the net. Keen has great advice. Read it. You can grow garlic successfully.
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Garlic 29 Oct, Christina (USA - Zone 9b climate): I’m in 9b, central California and I have grown garlic for a few years. I “plant on the shortest day of the year, harvest on the longest day.” It has worked. Originally I just started with some organic grocery store garlic clusters, but now I save them from one year for the next.
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Potato 14 Oct, Anonymous (USA - Zone 10a climate): Which varieties of Indeterminate potatoes do well in Zone 10A?
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Tomato 13 Oct, Tim (USA - Zone 10a climate): Great advice
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Strawberry Plants 12 Oct, Gayle in Mississippi (USA - Zone 8b climate): Hi! Can someone suggest a place to buy strawberry plants. I started some from seeds, but only 3 sprouted, so I need more. I live in zone 8b, which has some hot summers. I'm looking for hardy super sweet strawberries. Thank you.
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Strawberry Plants 18 May, Alan James (USA - Zone 10a climate): I bought mine from parkseed.com. I bought barerooted (two varieties) strawberries 20 each they actually sent me like 23 and 25 most are growing. I might lose a few.
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Potato 10 Oct, Celeste Archer (Canada - Zone 5a Temperate Warm Summer climate): I forgot to mention -- and kept forgetting to post this additional part. When you are "hilling up" you are actually burying LEAVES. Leaves have specialized tissue to COLLECT LIGHT -- that is to say, they are NOT ROOTS -- so to me, burying leaves is NOT CORRECT. It may help to get the potatoes producing sooner, BUT somehow to me if a potato plant made leaves it wanted to collect light -- roots are different, they are sort of thin and round/tube like and are used to transport water and nutrients -- AGAIN: leaves are leaves and roots are roots -- and when I stop and think about it burying leaves doesn't seem right... and my gut instinct is saying that it is not correct. I have also noticed that roots are thinner, and are probably easier for the plant to make/grow -- leaves look like they take a lot of work/nutrition -- so why bury something that is specialized to be above the ground???....... again, the pros may say otherwise and have lots of data and past successes to prove their view point. I have done it both ways (not sure why I did- but I did) and really have not noticed any differences in OVERALL potato production.... so why bury the leaves and make all that extra work hilling up ??? Also, potato tubers seem to like lots of air flow... so make sure the soil is light or ir your in containers ensure lots of holes near the bottom sides to create updrafts..
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Potato 19 Oct, Anonymous (Canada - Zone 3b Temperate Warm Summer climate): Pull the leaves off.
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Potato 24 Nov, Faith Celeste Archer (Canada - Zone 5a Temperate Warm Summer climate): Seem like a waste to have the plant grow leaves just to pull them off.... I'm all for burying the seed potatoes at the correct depth (based on soil conditions -- mine go down about 10 inches) -- it saves me the work of hilling up... seems like it saves the potato plant some work as well. The results are about about the same so why bother with all the extra work ?
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Sunflower 10 Oct, Kathleen (USA - Zone 4a climate): Not sure if Im in zone 4a or 4b (Ossipee, NH). When should I plant sunflower seeds?
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Chicory (also Witloof, Belgian endive) 09 Oct, Annemieke Tempelaars (New Zealand - cool/mountain climate): Where can I buy the seeds? To grow witlof myself can I buy that on line, I'm in Invercargill NZ
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Cape Gooseberry (also Golden Berry, Inca Berry ) 09 Oct, Rowan (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I have a problem with my Cape gooseberries that I have been growing from self seeded plants for several years. The fruit is developing in the shell and can be felt with light pressure to be about pea size. But suddenly the fruit disappears. The shells are still there, green and appear undisturbed i.e no grub or bird holes , but the fruit has gone. It does not appear to be birds as i have netted the plants. I have sprayed the plants with eco oil and there is no obvious sign of insect activity. there has been some nibling of the plants not covered by the nets, probably possums, but no sign of their activity under the nets. Any suggestions?
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Cape Gooseberry (also Golden Berry, Inca Berry ) 27 Oct, Margaret (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I am also having the same problem. Fruit getting to about pea size then drying up. There is a hole in the case as though an insect has come out of it. Did you receive any response to your pist?
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Watermelon 04 Oct, Anonymous (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate): hi, trying to find seeds for the watermelon known as All Sweet Watermelon.
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Watermelon 07 Oct, Anonymous (Australia - sub-tropical climate): You may have to buy from Australia - or try google in NZ
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Spinach (also English spinach) 03 Oct, Elaine Fortune (USA - Zone 10a climate): what is the best variety of spinach to grow in zone 10a?
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Chives (also Garden chives) 03 Oct, Robert (USA - Zone 7a climate): If I plant in October when will they be ready to harvest and once they die out in the winter will they grow again in the spring?
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