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Ginger 17 Oct, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Soil needs to be 20-30 degree - may be next month.
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Garlic 14 Oct, David Kalet (USA - Zone 10a climate): I just moved to Naples Florida. I am looking for hard neck and soft neck varieties that would grow here. I am thinking that planting on December 21 and harvesting June 21 maybe a good start. It doesn't get frosty here, but perhaps vernalizing the bulbs in the refrigerator for 40 days may work. Appreciate any thoughts.
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Garlic 18 Nov, Ruth A Hersh (USA - Zone 9a climate): Garlic grows GREAT here in Florida, but only the soft neck varieties, & you must give them 8 weeks artificial winter in a refrigerator prior to planting. Preferably one without ripening fruit as they put off gasses that can hurt your garlic whilst chilling.
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Garlic 06 Nov, Dave in California Zone 10A (USA - Zone 10a climate): David, I also live in Zone 10A but in California (hot and dry, average 10 inches of rain per year), and please IGNORE the Aussie who thinks we do not check our Zone 10A recommendations. I have been container gardening here for a couple years and am still learning, with notable mistakes being not knowing correct planting/harvesting times (I now use this website over anything on a seed package), overcrowding, and overwatering. I have successfully grown garlic in Zone 10A, from store bought garlic cloves that were sprouting tiny green shoots, and they produced but the heads and cloves were only about half the size as the original store-bought, which might be caused by the climate, or more likely from be the mistakes I was making trying to grow new things like crowding, overwatering, and not knowing when to plant or harvest. Anyway, give growing garlic a try and my best advice is to avoid overwatering. I had a lot of cloves rot instead of growing and I think it was because of overwatering. After doing more research I'm trying to grow garlic again by planting some in NOV, and some in DEC, and really monitoring the watering. Even though my garlic was half sized, it still tastes great, so I would rather have half sized garlic I can grow myself than not growing garlic.
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Garlic 20 Oct, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): If you had looked up Garlic for your CLIMATE ZONE 10a you would see that they do not recommend any planting time. You don't have the climate for it, is what that says.
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Garlic 18 Nov, Ruth A Hersh (USA - Zone 9a climate): Garlic grows fine in zone 10 as long as you refrigerate aka false winter it for 8 weeks prior to planting, & it MUST BE Softneck in zones 9 & 10.
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Garlic 11 Nov, Ken (USA - Zone 10a climate): I'm in zone 10a. My garlic was planted 3 weeks ago. It is growing in the ground, in planters, and 6 are coming up in an old dish pan. It grows well here.
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Garlic 27 Nov, Dave in California Zone 10A (USA - Zone 10a climate): my Zone 10A garlic, all in rectangular containers 24" length x 7.5" width, x 6.5" height, is sprouting well also, with some shoots up to about two inches. I had several garlic bulbs I intentionally kept in my refrigerator for a couple months, divided them into cloves, peeled them to avoid mold and decay, and kept the separated cloves open to the light at room temperature until they started sprouting. When the majority had tiny green shoots, I selected the best cloves (solid, no spongy or discolored parts) and planted them shallow with the very top of the clove showing as per advice from an internet container gardening site. I am really being careful not to overwater and it looks like all the cloves sprouted green shoots, but after a couple weeks I did have birds pull up maybe eight out of thirty or so of the newly sprouted cloves, so I replanted the missing ones with a more cloves, then added about an inch more soil over the top, and so far the birds have not raided again with the cloves now about two inches deep. Lesson learned: the internet advice for container gardening to plant the cloves with the tip showing is an invitation to be raided by birds. Solution: plant deeper, maybe two inches below the soil surface, even in shallow containers.
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Tomatillo 13 Oct, Douglas Cassan (Canada - Zone 5a Temperate Warm Summer climate): Re tomatillos: I planted only one tomatillos plant (didn't realize I should have a spouse for it); fort several weeks it grew and grew but there were no indications of fruit; then the little yellow flowers started sprouting and producing fruit. I have made Salsa Verde, a delicious sweet potato/tomatillo bisque and spaghetti sauce, but I still have loads of tomatillos on my counter, in my fridge, in my freezer. This plant doesn't know how to quit. Frost is called for tonight so I suspect my plant will fall victim to winter pretty soon. My problem is that so many of the fruits were small, running from 1/2 to one inch across. Any suggestions for 2023 on how to get maybe less but larger fruit?
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Tomatillo 17 Oct, Anonymous (Canada - zone 4a Temperate Warm Summer climate): Look up the internet about picking off the lateral growth. Where the leaf joins the main stem a piece of growth comes out there. Pick it off.
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Okra (also Ladyfinger, gumbo) 13 Oct, Farin Bourne (Canada - Zone 3b Temperate Warm Summer climate): There are some amazing recipes of okra on YouTube for curried and fried okra
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Garlic 11 Oct, Dena Basinger (USA - Zone 5b climate): How to plant garlic in zone 5b in the ground and in pots. Sunshine and water how much
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Garlic 20 Oct, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Read the notes here how to plant it. In full sun and check the soil down an inch or so, if dryish water - like each 2-3 days.
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Strawberry Plants 09 Oct, Andrew MacRae (South Africa - Dry summer sub-tropical climate): Runner plant has strawberries but mother plant none this year. Mother plant had lots last year
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Strawberry Plants 25 Oct, (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate): Usually you plant out the new runners and dig in/throw away the old plants, although you can produce a crop for 2-3 years with the mother plants.
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Rhubarb 09 Oct, Jen (Australia - cool/mountain climate): It says to remove the flowerstalk but no mention why there is a flowerstalk.. I was suprised today to find a stalk at least a meter high?? WHY....???
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Rhubarb 17 Oct, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Rhubarb produces a flowerstalk and flowers so that it can produce seed. all plants need to propagate. Rhubarb can be grown from seed, but first the seed has to be produced!
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Rhubarb 10 Oct, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Best you google about it. Flowering is part of the life cycle of plants.
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Yacon (also Sunroot) 08 Oct, Margaret (Australia - temperate climate): It looks like my first yacon planting has been very successful, which means I’m going to have more than I can eat while fresh. Any hints on how to store the harvested roots to last for a lot longer?
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Yacon (also Sunroot) 12 May, Edel Heyer (Australia - temperate climate): Layer them in cardboard boxes with newspaper in between layers and keep in a cool place, like a garage. If you have damaged tubers keep them in the fridge.
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Garlic 08 Oct, Beth (USA - Zone 6b climate): I should have my first frost this week and haven't gotten them in the ground yet. I haven't had the time this year. Is it too late to plant for harvest next year? Any suggestions on how to plant and fertilizer needed would be greatly appreciated.
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Garlic 10 Oct, (USA - Zone 6b climate): You had better be quick about it.
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Chives (also Garden chives) 08 Oct, Peter Chapman (Australia - temperate climate): Chives. I have had my chives in the garden bed for about 6 months. They are growing well, but are prostrate, and falling all over the ground. I have grown chives successfully in previous gardens. Any idea why my chives are not upstanding?
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Chives (also Garden chives) 17 Dec, Peter Chapman (Australia - temperate climate): Disregard my last posting - Chives are now booming
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Lettuce 07 Oct, Irene Bollerman (Australia - sub-tropical climate): why is it advised to "Avoid growing close to: Parsley, Celery"?
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Lettuce 10 Oct, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Some plants react with others or problems in the soil.
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Ginger 06 Oct, Dennis (USA - Zone 8a climate): I am in Zone 8a (Columbia, SC). Can I grow gingers outside all year around? Do you have any tips on growing gingers in Zone 8a?
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Ginger 05 Nov, Sonja (USA - Zone 8b climate): My sis in law grows ginger in Columbia SC. No prob. She lets it come up in the compost bin in dappled shade to protect it from the heat. If you want to keep it all year, you'll have to pot it up and move it inside we'll ahead of freezing temperatures. That can be very different from year to year.
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Ginger 10 Oct, Anonymous (USA - Zone 8a climate): Gardenate doesn't recommend growing it anytime in your climate zone.Probably too cold.
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Radish 04 Oct, ELIZABETH (USA - Zone 7b climate): I had no idea you could actually eat the green end of a radish until i started gardening myself this past year. doing research on the when and hows has taught me so much and the green end of the radish was actually really good! Great flavor! thank you for gardeners and gardening! So much peace in my life now!!
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