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Carrot 08 Dec, Helen Chon (USA - Zone 9a climate): Cover with board? I don’t understand how a plant grows when it’s covered with a board? I must be missing something.
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Carrot 14 Jun, Cecil D. (USA - Zone 5b climate): Cover the planted SEEDS with a board until they germinate to maintain a moist soil. Uncovered soil dries quickly (which is why we use mulch to cover them as well). Seeds will not sprout when stressed by dry soil. You barely cover the carrot seeds with soil since they are so small. Good luck!
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Carrot 05 Apr, Rachel (USA - Zone 8b climate): It's mostly to help with moisture. Carrot seeds cannot be allowed to dry out. They come up from under just fine.
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Carrot 21 Feb, Cindy C. (USA - Zone 8b climate): A board such as a 1 X 3" is simply to keep rain from dislodging the tiny seed from the soil and retain moisture. I check my seed germination after a week then daily until the seedlings are about 1". Then I remove the board, thin the seedlings and cover with a floating row cover. I plant them right next onions and have no problem with flies.
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Carrot 29 Dec, Darlene (USA - Zone 9a climate): You only cover with a board temporarily as to keep the seeds from washing away and from birds eating them. After a week or more, You are to begin checking for sprouts. Within a week to 10 days, if it’s getting hotter in your climate, you elevate the board above the sprouts by placing a rock at each end of the board length and place the board on top of the two rocks. This keeps it a bit shaded since carrots are cool weather. Then as they get larger ferns and safer to expose, you remove the board. I hope that’s helpful.
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Carrot 22 Feb, Helen Chon (USA - Zone 9a climate): Thank you. Your explanation was clear and much appreciated.
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Carrot 11 Dec, (USA - Zone 6b climate): Use shade cloth or hessian bags above the soil.
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Brussels sprouts 08 Dec, Donald Green (USA - Zone 6b climate): when should brussel sprouts be seeded for spring planting
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Brussels sprouts 11 Dec, (USA - Zone 6b climate): March to June planting for zone 6b.
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Cabbage 07 Dec, Ben (USA - Zone 8b climate): I live in the Midlands of South Carolina. I think it's agricultural zone 8. Looking for cabbage I can plant right now
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Cabbage 11 Dec, (USA - Zone 8b climate): Too late to plant now - check the planting guide here.
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Cabbage 28 Dec, Elisabeth (USA - Zone 7b climate): Well, not entirely true. I got some cabbage seedlings from a nursery that was tossing them. We put them in to the ground on December 3. Then we have them covered with a small hoop house. We also have some incandescent lights to add just enough heat when the temps dip down into the twenties.(F.) You can grow them and they are a challenge, but brassicas like cabbage, kale and broccoli are pretty frost hardy if you give them cover.
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Beans - climbing (also Pole beans, Runner beans, Scarlet Runners) 03 Dec, Greg (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate): Does that include just planting seeds right now? I have heard that too - too much water can rot the seed too. I'm planting dwarf, yellow wax.
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Beans - climbing (also Pole beans, Runner beans, Scarlet Runners) 07 Dec, Anonymous (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate): Plant into damp soil and give a quick watering then don't water for 3-4 days and only give a light watering depending on how dry the top 2(?)
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Beans - climbing (also Pole beans, Runner beans, Scarlet Runners) 30 Nov, Andrew (New Zealand - temperate climate): When Scarlett Runner beans get to the top of the frames they tend to drop down to find somewhere to attach. They get really quite top heavy and dark. Can you snip off the top once they go over. By the way we get huge amounts of beans. Also Butter Bean do extremely well here in the BOP
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Beans - climbing (also Pole beans, Runner beans, Scarlet Runners) 30 Nov, Liz (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate): You can safely snip off your scarlet runners when they reach the top of the frames. They will produce more shoots lower down.
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Pumpkin 30 Nov, Robert (Australia - temperate climate): Hi there just wont to know wot is the latest you can plant pumpkins in south Australia
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Pumpkin 07 Dec, Anonymous (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Work out your climate zone and then set it then go to Pumpkins
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Onion 30 Nov, marco (Australia - tropical climate): hi i live on the gold coast qld .i have planted onion .rossa lunga di firenze .in late october ,early november .they are there and havent done much .we have had lots of rain here and the onions have thickened up quite a bit .i have thrown more seeds in a tray and i will plant them to see how they grow out .i might be too early yet i will let u know how it pans out !!
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Onion 07 Dec, Anonymous (Australia - sub-tropical climate): You are sub-tropical. Click that in SET YOUR CLIMATE ZONE. Then go to onion. You basically plant onions in autumn early winter.
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Onion 22 Dec, marco (Australia - temperate climate): yes you are right my onions thickened up with all the rain .yet they stalled in growth again .new seed seeded yet they are thin as well .like u said wrong time of year to grow .i will keep them in the ground to see what happens .(my first year of growing onions)
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Ginger 26 Nov, Dir.k klyn (Australia - temperate climate): Any body growing black ginger it comes from thailand china areas
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Ginger 07 Dec, (Australia - temperate climate): Check out seed selling web sites to see if any sell them.
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Asparagus 24 Nov, pete Basabe (USA - Zone 12b climate): Hi, Something is eating my asparagus below the soil line. The new shoots are being hallowed out like small caverns below the soil line. This quickly weakens the shoot and then it dries up and dies. The only insects I can find are small (1/4 in) round black beetle like insects that live in the dirt around the new stalks. The full grown stalks do not seem to be affected by these little guys. Any ideas? Thanks, Pete
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Asparagus 18 Mar, Nancy Spencer (USA - Zone 9b climate): Sorry you're having this problem Pete. Here in Florida, we have something called pocket gophers. They burrow underground, leaving occasional piles of dirt at the surface. They feed off of the roots of vegetables. I am berrying fencing all around the perimeter, 1 foot deep, to prevent them getting in to my asparagus. It should stop the bunnies too! Don't know if this help but I wish you luck in solving this.
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Tomato 24 Nov, Dan (South Africa - Semi-arid climate): Good morning sorry to bother you I just want to know about planting tomato in Capetown what is best time? thanks a lot (Gardenate says: Make sure that you select your zone at the top of the tomato page, then you can see which months are suitable)
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Choko/Chayote (also Chayote squash, christophene, chouchou, mirliton) 21 Nov, Carol (Australia - arid climate): I have a choko that is starting to shoot. Can I plant this now in Dubbo.
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Choko/Chayote (also Chayote squash, christophene, chouchou, mirliton) 23 Nov, (Australia - temperate climate): The only climate zone they say here for growing choko is sub-tropical. You could try and see what happens.
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Beans - climbing (also Pole beans, Runner beans, Scarlet Runners) 21 Nov, Steve (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I live on sunshine coast and was wondering can I plant corn, sweet potatoes and bean in the same patch. So that the bean grow up the corn with the sweet potatoes under neath
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Beans - climbing (also Pole beans, Runner beans, Scarlet Runners) 17 Mar, Veronica @Bundaberg (Australia - tropical climate): Sweet potatoes are more a perennial plant, meaning they can be left in the same spot for at least 2 years. Furthermore, when harvesting, you need to dig around in the soil, which is not convenient to other plants. We grow them solely in their own beds. The three sisters is a better way to go.
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