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Watermelon 04 Sep, Harrison Brown (USA - Zone 10b climate): I would like to know what type of fertilizers I can use to fertilizer my pigeon peas, corn, and watermelon plants?
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Watermelon 07 Sep, (USA - Zone 4a climate): A general garden fertiliser will do.
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Garlic 02 Sep, Molly Beverly (USA - Zone 7b climate): We have grown up to 3 acres of garlic over the past 30 years. Plant in October/November, harvest the end of June. Around mid June the tops will start drying. Pull a bulb and count the wrappers. If there are 5 wrappers it is time to cut off the water. Harvest when the tops are mostly dried. I make braids from the largest bulbs right then. Hang them in the kitchen. Let the garlic cure 2 weeks in the shade before storing in a cool, dark place at room temperature. I grow soft neck garlic with big cloves and it keeps braided, hanging on my kitchen wall until the next harvest. And... always save the biggest bulbs with the biggest cloves for the next planting.
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Garlic 22 Oct, Jose (USA - Zone 8a climate): How often do you water the garlics? And you braid them? How do you get them ready to replant for next season? I live in Lexington South Carolina. Email me any tips I’m looking to get planting garlic for the first time. I’d appreciate it.
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Potato 30 Aug, Bonnie Hawks (USA - Zone 6b climate): Can this area plant. Potatoes/sweet potatoes in the fall?
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Potato 01 Sep, Melinda Schwab (USA - Zone 8a climate): Sweet potato farmers here grow sprouts by “bedding” seed potatoes in March. This is done by placing the whole potato in the ground, covering them with a thin layer of soil and plastic. Sprouts will be cut and transplanted from the greenhouse or bedding field to a different field in May or June. It takes approximately 90-120 days without frost to grow a sweet potato. Sweet potatoes are ready to dig 90-120 days after sprouts are transplanted. Around here in August the rows are plowed and sweet potatoes are flipped on top of the ground. Most sweet potatoes are cured. Curing changes starches in the sweet potatoes into sugar, making it sweeter and the skin tougher. It takes 4-7 days of 80-85̊ temperature and 80-90% relative humidity to cure sweet potatoes. After being cured, sweet potatoes are stored at temperatures between 55-60º F and 85% relative humidity. This special storage process is why sweet potatoes are available 365 days a year here in USA. Here in North Carolina, USA sweet potatoes are shipped all over the world. It is one of our largest farmed food crops. I hope this helps... ~Melinda
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Potato 14 Dec, Celeste Archer (Canada - Zone 7b Mild Temperate climate): Thank you - excellent information - especially about "bedding" the sweet seed potatoes and cutting the sprouts for transplant!!!
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Potato 07 Sep, Anon (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Where I live sub-tropical Australia we are becoming the sweet potato capital of Australia. The sprouts are called ?
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Potato 18 Oct, Peter Hurley (USA - Zone 4b climate): Sweet potato sprouts are known as "slips". In the United States sweet potatoes tend to be the reddish type with orange flesh, a good variety is Georgia Jet, Australia may be more familiar with what we would call yams.
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Potato 01 Sep, (USA - Zone 6b climate): April May if you had checked the planting guide here.
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Garlic 29 Aug, Jim Tocci (USA - Zone 7a climate): My research seems to indicate that soft neck garlic might be more appropriate for my region vs hard neck. We plan to put them in mid-October to early November. Thanks!
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Chilli peppers (also Hot peppers) 27 Aug, Marie Blonde Jennings Paul (USA - Zone 13b climate): Last year I had a great crop of Scotch bonnet peppers from a plant that was given to me and I saved some of the seeds. How do I start making seedlings and when do I start planting them for this year?
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Chilli peppers (also Hot peppers) 01 Sep, (USA - Zone 13b climate): Go by the planting guide here when to plant and read the planting instructions.
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Tomato 27 Aug, Anthony Jennings (USA - Zone 13b climate): Last year I planted cherry tomatoes from seedlings in January. I saved some seeds. When and how should I plant the seeds to develop seedlings for the coming year and how do I plant the seeds?
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Tomato 01 Sep, (USA - Zone 6b climate): Plant in a fine potting mix or similar soil (light and free draining) or a mixture of soil and potting mix about 1/4
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Sweet Potato (also Kumara) 27 Aug, Kirk McCoy (USA - Zone 10a climate): If your sweet potatoes wont sprout it is because commercial growers spray them with a anti sprouting chemical. It can be removed buy giving your sweet potatoes a ascorbic acid bath for 15 minutes then rinsing. I use 2 tsp in a half gallon of water. you could also use crushed vitamin C pills.
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Sweet Potato (also Kumara) 19 Jun, Maria (USA - Zone 10a climate): Thanks for the tip! I am trying for the first time and will do this :)
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Ginger 26 Aug, ED AND DIANE (USA - Zone 9a climate): i NEED TO GROW GINGER FOR HEALTH REASONS. PLEASE HELP US. THANK YOU ED & DI
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Watermelon 21 Aug, Sandra Carlton (USA - Zone 8b climate): I have watermelon plants all over the garden lots of blooms but no fruit yet, they were planted mid July. In zone 8
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Watermelon 23 Aug, Rosemary McElroy (USA - Zone 10a climate): I wouldn’t worry unless the blooms drop. Did you plant them as plants or seeds?
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Garlic 17 Aug, william (USA - Zone 8a climate): I am located in the Marshville, NC area. I have read varying articles about when to plant. I'm on the 7b/8a cusp. Some articles have said that I can plant as early as October or as last as January. More specific advice would be much appreciated.
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Garlic 01 Sep, Melinda Schwab (USA - Zone 8a climate): We always prepare our garlic beds in late September and the first week of October plant our garlic and have had great luck with this. Best of luck with yours this year! Hope this helps. ~Melinda
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Garlic 29 Aug, (USA - Zone 7b climate): It has a bit different times for 7b to 8a - you work out what is the best. Read and google about growing it.
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Beetroot (also Beets) 14 Aug, Jill (USA - Zone 9a climate): what is the best type of beetroot to plant in zone 9a?
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Beetroot (also Beets) 29 Aug, (USA - Zone 7b climate): There is no best type for any region. Just try a variety or two.
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Luffa (also Loofah, plant sponge) 13 Aug, Faye Johnson (USA - Zone 4a climate): How can I get seeds from my Lofa plant to start new ones for next year?
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Luffa (also Loofah, plant sponge) 29 Aug, anon (USA - Zone 7b climate): Let the fruit dry right out then collect the seeds.
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Sweet corn (also corn,maize) 10 Aug, Saeed & Amina Hashmi (USA - Zone 10b climate): can i grow corn in planters?If, yes any recommendation on planter size and number of corn seed per planter. I have very small area in backyard with very sandy soil and nothing grows there easily.
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Sweet corn (also corn,maize) 06 Jul, C. B. (USA - Zone 7b climate): I got great information on using fabric grow bag planters from YouTube. Her channel name: Growfully with Jenna / Title of video: Can I Grow Sweet Corn in a Container? Absolutely! / Date published: Sep 1, 2020 / Length of video: 5:39 She suggests using 20 gallon grow bag planters. No smaller. She suggests making 6 holes in soil with 2 seeds in each hole and thin if need be. She says she does two seeds because every now and then, you'll get a seed that won't germinate. I hope this helps. Please check out her video. :) P.S. She does discuss the type of soil to use because corn is a very heavy feeder. She says use 50% mushroom compost and 50% garden soil.
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Sweet corn (also corn,maize) 29 Aug, anon (USA - Zone 7b climate): Try and buy some soil or find free or cheap soil and improve your soil with manures and compost.
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