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Tomato 06 Nov, Clara (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I have good success with oxhearts and rouge de marmande. They fruit all through winter too and I'm more southerly than you. You can get these varieties in DT Brown seeds from Reject Shop for $2 a packet. Mine self seed after the first season and I'm about to harvest a pair of oxhearts weighing 300gms each. They don't seem to revert to wild tomato types when self seeding which a lot of other varieties do. Cherry toms are prolific fruiters and easy but a PITA to harvest and not useful for sandwiches. But perfect to toss into a salad. I prefer the larger types. I harvest the toms as soon as I get a small blush of pink/yellow on the skin and then they ripen perfectly inside without inviting pests. But you need to let them get the colouring enzymes going on the vine first in a small amount for this to work.
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Tomato 06 Nov, Clara (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I never use anything and get large crops. Maybe I am just exceptionally lucky? Who knows.Try tomato fruit bags. These are fine mesh bags you tie over the green fruit trusses that prevents insects from getting at them. If you can sew you can probably make a heap out of an old fine net curtain to save $$$ as they tend to be rather pricey to buy. Just a rectangular bag with a drawstring large enough to house the truss.
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Rhubarb 06 Nov, Clara (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Don't plant it in plastic, they hate that. Use terracotta and it will do well. It likes the airflow. I have mine in a medium terracotta pot and it's loving it. You do have to feed and water it very regularly though in warm weather. It's not a set and forget situation potted up, needs some looking after. But does make a great display.
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Rhubarb 06 Nov, Clara (Australia - sub-tropical climate): My guess is that your soil has too much clay content in it for rhubarb. It does this in heavy soil. I tried to grow it in the ground here, I have very rich, dark soil but it borders on high clay content. My plant suffered until I removed it and potted it up in large terracotta pot with light potting mix. Now it's doing brilliantly. The terracotta keeps the roots cool and stops the crown from rotting. But it has to be watered daily potted up like that as it wilts very easily. I ended up growing my rhubarb and strawberries in pots because they just didn't like the heavy soil. They are producing wonderfully now and make a nice display together. An alternative could be to add a lot of organic material to your soil and plant it into a built up mound for free draining situation.
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Rhubarb 10 Nov, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Buy some sand or sandy loam soil and mix into your soil and compost.
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Choko/Chayote (also Chayote squash, christophene, chouchou, mirliton) 05 Nov, Purry (Canada - zone 4a Temperate Warm Summer climate): Can chayote grow in Calgary, Alberta?
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Choko/Chayote (also Chayote squash, christophene, chouchou, mirliton) 10 Nov, Anonymous (Canada - Zone 4b Temperate Warm Summer climate): Warm hot weather.
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Choko/Chayote (also Chayote squash, christophene, chouchou, mirliton) 10 Nov, Anonymous (Canada - Zone 4b Temperate Warm Summer climate): Check the climate zone here for that area.
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Garlic 04 Nov, Melinda Horsey (USA - Zone 9b climate): What about growing elephant garlic in zine 9b? Is it the same as regular garlic?
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Strawberries (from seeds) 04 Nov, nqobile (South Africa - Humid sub-tropical climate): where can i buy strawberry in Gauteng?
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Strawberries (from seeds) 17 Nov, (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate): try the internet for companies who sell them.
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Rockmelon (also Canteloupe) 03 Nov, Maria Craig (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate): can you make a frame to grow rock melons on if so what type I live in Auckland New Zealand
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Rockmelon (also Canteloupe) 05 Nov, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Wood frame with some kind of mesh or house reo. Have as trellis or flat base.
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Asparagus Pea (also Winged bean) 03 Nov, Thuy Tran (USA - Zone 10b climate): Which the best month to grow asparagus pea Can I grow right now?
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Asparagus Pea (also Winged bean) 05 Nov, (USA - Zone 10b climate): March. No.
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Choko/Chayote (also Chayote squash, christophene, chouchou, mirliton) 02 Nov, Rosie Spence (New Zealand - temperate climate): Where am I able to get Choko plants or seeds in NZ, I’m finding them difficult to access, thank you in advance
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Choko/Chayote (also Chayote squash, christophene, chouchou, mirliton) 05 Aug, Anthony (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate): buy a whole choko from the store set aside indoors ( maybe in a fruit bowl ) and it will sprout a vine on its own Then plant the whole thing .. i have a posting becoming available, that will explain the process after that
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Choko/Chayote (also Chayote squash, christophene, chouchou, mirliton) 05 Nov, (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate): Buy seeds online or buy a choko and wait until it starts sending out a shoot and then plant.
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Pak Choy (also Pak choi) 02 Nov, Charlie Huang (USA - Zone 9b climate): I am in San Jose, CA, Zone 9b. Is there any typo for the best seed sowing months for Pak Choy? The page says that Pak Choy prefers the temp 70-85 for growing. The best months for sowing seed are Nov/Dec/Jan. But the average temp is around 45-70 for these 3 months. Also there is high risk for the frost. The Pak Choy seed packages I had shows the best seed sowing months are Sept/Oct and Feb/March/April. Gardenate.com is a wondaful website that I have been looking it for a long time, especially for the reminder. It will be even great if you can add some more Asian vegetable to your list, such as: Arugula / Tong Ho /Taiwan New Sword Leaf Lettuce / Yu Choi Sum / Gain Lan / Chinese Stem Lettuce / Xue-Li-Hong / Stem Mustard Zha Choy / Garlic Chives / RED STRIP Leaf Amaranth / Luffa / Green gourd / Spaghetti Squash / Winter melon / Hyacinth Bean / Long bean etc. I know a lot of Asian home gardeners in CA are looking for it. There are a lot vegetable planting information in the website now. But you are the one of them in the best list. Wish your online better and better.
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Pak Choy (also Pak choi) 05 Nov, Anonymous (USA - Zone 4a climate): Look up a chart for temperatures required to germinate vegetables. If your soil temperature is lower than what is required it will probably take longer to germinate or not germinate at all. Soil temp is different to air temp. A lot of the Asian greens would grow in the same climate zone and in similar seasons. Consideration has to be given to how hot it might be, how wet (storms etc) pests and diseases etc,
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Beetroot (also Beets) 01 Nov, Wendy (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I have had very varied success with growing beetroot. Some will grow quickly and taste so sweet, others in the same garden bed don't even go to seedlings. They are the same seed packet, same variety and same area of garden. Can anyone help. I have tested Ph and they get watered at night every second day if no rain. I am at a loss as to why some do & some don't.
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Beetroot (also Beets) 04 Nov, Anonymous (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I grow beetroot from Mar to harvest late Oct. I grow seedlings and plant out and cover with a shade cloth cover for about 2 weeks. I then fertilise with a watering can to give a good uniform fertilising. If required another fertilising later. Space plants about 125mm apart. Rows about 400mm apart. When they have grown about 150-200mm high I even hill the soil around them a bit to support them. I grow DT BROWN Detroit Red Globe from the Reject shops. I find when I boil them to pickle they don't bleed too much. They flesh is still a deep colour. I water each two days in good free draining soil.
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Tomato 01 Nov, John Ellis (Australia - cool/mountain climate): Tomatoes grew well last season until whitefly arrived. I found that Pyrethrum spray only reduced the numbers for a week or two and then it was basically ineffective. Suggestions as to effective control?
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Tomato 04 Nov, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I basically only grow cherry tomatoes, they are fairly disease resistant. Bigger tomatoes the fly and grubs just feed on them especially when the warmer wet weather comes.
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Potato 31 Oct, Kevin Weaver (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I live on the mid north coast of Nsw . I planted potatoes in my vegetable garden at the beginning of October, not realizing they are best grown in cooler months, the are currently looking and growing really well i have just mounded them for the first time. Is there any chance they will grow to harvest, or am i wasting my time. Thanks kev
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Potato 01 Nov, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): In sub tropical you can grow an Autumn and a Spring crop. The guide above says plant Aug to Oct. They also plant about May in Bundy - sub tropical.
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Sweet Marjoram (also Knotted marjoram) 30 Oct, Tohfe (Australia - temperate climate): How many weeks to grow up (From Gardenate:Check here www.gardenate.com/plant/Sweet Marjoram )
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Celery 29 Oct, Alan kuchas (USA - Zone 4a climate): Would like to know everything about vegetables from seeding to harvest in my ZONE4a. This way I would know when to start seeds indoors and outdoors and best time to transplant out with any pertinent tips along the way…Thanks….AL (Gardenate says : Select USA 4a in the bar at the top of the page. Scroll through the months.)
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Sweet corn (also corn,maize) 28 Oct, Mike (South Africa - Semi-arid climate): Can I plant sweet corn on dryland/with rain?
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Sweet corn (also corn,maize) 31 Oct, (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate): Corn needs plenty of regular watering - like each couple of days.
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