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Carrot 07 Nov, Liz (USA - Zone 7b climate): Find your zone at the top of the Carrot page Check the harvest time and work back from that, or check the chart which suggests sowing time.
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Cape Gooseberry (also Golden Berry, Inca Berry ) 27 Oct, Fawn E Rosenberg (USA - Zone 6b climate): I have 6-8 inch cape gooseberry plants in a pot, which were started from seed during the summer. I brought them inside since we are expecting our first frost tomorrow. What can I do to keep them thriving through our upcoming harsh winter? And how long until they will bear fruit? Thank you!
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Cape Gooseberry (also Golden Berry, Inca Berry ) 30 Oct, Anonymous (USA - Zone 6b climate): They are a spring summer crop - not something you grow through winter.
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Carrot 22 Oct, Mar (USA - Zone 8a climate): Can I sow carrot seeds in mid October zone 8a. The fall heat hasn't helped my failed attempts.
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Carrot 18 Nov, Ruth A Hersh (USA - Zone 9a climate): Absolutely, you can! The weather is not the same every year.
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Carrot 25 Oct, Anonymous (USA - Zone 8a climate): It suggests up to Sept. Carrots need to be cover with some hessian or shade cloth/??? and watered a couple of times a day. Prepare your soil well and have it in a fine crumbly level soil,
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Asparagus 20 Oct, Shelby Stone (USA - Zone 7b climate): How do I start asparagus from seed in the fall? Do I sow directly into the ground or start indoors? Zone 7b Thank you!
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Asparagus 25 Oct, Anonymous (USA - Zone 7b climate): It suggests to plant Nov Dec. Start them in pots or trays. They are very fine little seedlings and need close attention with watering. Some sun, some shade during the day until they are a few inches high.
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Jerusalem Artichokes (also Sunchoke) 19 Oct, Jim (USA - Zone 8b climate): I live on the Alabama Gulf Coast, and just bought 4lb Jerusalem Artichokes for planting. Can I plant now (October) or if I need to wait until Spring, how should I store them? Should I mulch if I plant now? Thank You
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Jerusalem Artichokes (also Sunchoke) 25 Oct, Anonymous (USA - Zone 8b climate): It says plant Nov.
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Garlic 16 Oct, Holly (USA - Zone 5b climate): Can I plant garlic bulbs in pots (that will remain outside throughout winter) in zone 5b?
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Garlic 20 Oct, (USA - Zone 5b climate): If you can grow it in the ground you can grow it in a pot usually.
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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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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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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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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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Cabbage 02 Oct, Cammie (USA - Zone 4b climate): What varieties of cabbage should I plant now?
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Cabbage 03 Oct, (USA - Zone 4b climate): Any. What you want to eat.
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Strawberry Plants 30 Sep, Liliana (USA - Zone 9b climate): I’m a newbie at growing strawberries. If I cover them for protection from the birds, won’t that interfere with insects being able to pollenate the flowers?
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