Planting veggie seeds in November   A few years ago I planted some lettuce seeds in November and they came up nicely in the Spring, but since then they haven't done so well. Has any one had ...

Planting Collards in November  Will collard greens survive the winter if they are covered with straw? I live in north east Georgia, cold weather really doesn't arrive until late December ...

eggplant problems  My eggplant flower and produce fruit then get 5 inches long then become soft and wilted then a yellow brown color

Growing Jack Bean  A friend sent me a Jack Bean pod how do I stored it for the winter? I read where they can grow fourteen feet tall. Any information on how to store it and ...

Moving autumn fruiting raspberries  Hi, I have some Autumn fruiting raspberries- variety Polka, growing in my fruit cage. They are outgrowing the space I gave them and I have noticed that ...

Growing Runner beans in same spot each year  Is it a good or bad idea to grow runner beans in the same spot year after year? The opinions on this are deeply divided.
Thanks for your help, Doris

green berries or fruit on potato plants  Good afternoon,

I live in W. Washington. I have a wonderful crop of potatoes in our home garden.

On the tops of a couple plant are green tomato looking ...

how to earn income growing vegetables and fruit  What vegetables or fruit can I grow to earn income? What can i grow with mango? I have a mango and sapota farm and i need to grow other vegetables or fruit ...

hard splitting eggplant  My small thai eggplant fruit are rock hard and they look like they are splitting. Did I leave them on the plant too long?

Why no peas in pods?  despite good crop of pods, pods contain no peas.

Butternut pollenation problem  I tried to pollenate my butternut with a small brush but there was no pollen on the male flowers, why is this?

holes in sweet peppers  Have three bell peppers in a growbag in the greenhouse. Over this past weekend I have had to discard four peppers as there are holes in them approx 4mm ...

Roma Tomato plants very small  I have a raised bed with Roma tomatoes in it only, they were started inside and transplanted out the end of May this year. My question is why are they ...

CAN CORN STILL GET EARS WITH PLANTING CLOSE TOGETHER  MY STALKS ARE BIG BUT PEOPLE SAY THEY ARE TOO CLOSE TOGETHER BUT THEY ARE BIGGER THAN EVEN THE FARMERS CORN AROUND HERE,I AM SICK OF PEOPLE TELLING ME ...

No beans on bean plants  my beans are growing but not getting any beans. what do i need to add to get produce.

vine leaves yellow and dying of vegetable starts  I just planted my vegetable starts in my garden and the leaves of my canteloupes, watermelons, and cucumbers are yellowing and some are dying. my radishes,...

growing potatoes and raspberries together  Can you grow potatoes around raspberry bushes?

Radish and beets--large leaves with small vegetables  why do my radishes and beets have beautiful large leaves but produce small vegetables?

Making a garden over an old fire pit of rubbish  I live in northeast georgia, we are about to start a garden and I was wondering if it is safe to do a garden over a plowed up fire pit?
We have burnt ...

keeping hay bales from drying out while away  Any advice on how to keep plants in hay bales happy while out of town for a long weekend? Don't want plants stressed due to drying out.

Thanks!

Trying to grow Sweet potatoes  We live in St Augustine, FLorida. We understand that sweet potatoes grow from slips which are started from the potato but we cannot seem to get ours to ...

Root crops very small and stressed  Radishes did not form, plants stayed small, yellow leaves and looked stressed. Beets stayed small and would not grow, cabbages did very well and so did ...

Tomato growing problems  I am trying to grow tomatoes in a large tub . The plants are growing but the stem of the flowers turn yellow and the fruit are not setting. What should ...

Small veggies but LOTS of foliage  I planted a not dig garden and used corn meal and ash, then 3 inches of compost. I had LOTS of foliage on everything but my tomatoes, onions, corn ears,...

Carrots in no-dig garden?  I am putting together a no dig garden and am wondering, do I need to leave an area free (not mulched) for carrots and parsnips next spring, or can I sow ...

Sage herb growing problems  I have a problem growing sage. Why are the leaves getting smaller?

tomatoes blooms but no tomatoes  We have four tomato plants, three have produced tomatoes, but the fourth just grows and blooms but never any tomatoes. This really has us puzzled. Any ...

Butternut squash splitting  My butternut squash have split and i dont know why. We did have one day of steady rain.

Why do caulitflower heads turn from white to pink  I have a large allotment in York, England, and for the past two years I've grown cauliflowers and each time as the heads start to grow the florets have ...

ripe mango melon vine peach  How do you know when a mango melon/vine peach is ripe?

romain lettuce is very tall  Our romain lettuce is about 3 1/2ft tall. Leafy (no head of lettuce forming, does it form on the end of the stalk?) I've been using it for salads etc....

Chilli Pepper - Hot Banana  Yesterday July 14th I was cleanig a backyard of weeds and abondoned plants when I came across a hot banana chilli plant. The peppers were already dried ...

Watermelon, Moon and Stars not showing any watermelons  My watermelons were a little slow to take off after I transplanted to the garden as it was cool and wet for a few weeks after that. Now it has gotten ...

turnip plants are flowering  Turnips are flowering, but not producing much of the turnip itself. Is this because they are transplanted plants?

new growth on frozen lemon tree  My 4 yr old Myer lemon tree in a container froze last winter. It is too large to bring in the house. Now I see new leaves at the base of the trunk. Should ...

Growing pinto beans  How long does it take pintos to mature? We picked some as flat green beans and now are wanting to have shelled beans. It seems like it is taking FOREVER!...

sweet corn with multible stalks  What should I do when my sweet corm plants grow multible stocks? Do I keep breaking them off or do I leave them alone. Also why do they grow? Is my ground ...

Squash dying when small  My squash plants are large and healthy looking, but the squash are not getting bigger than about 1 1/2 inches long. about 2 weeks now - some are rotting ...

mr flavorless squash  why are my squash flavorless?

How to stop vegetables wilting when picked  Soon after picking some of my veggies they are wilted and soft. Lettuce is the worst. My raddishes are the worst!
Any ideas for me?

Eggplant question  Most of my eggplants are producing beautiful shiny black fruit, but sometimes they produce a yellow one! These odd ones grow as big and healthy looking ...

Growing vegetables in drainage pipes on wall  I wish to grow some lettuce, strawberries and herbs on a wall in a container. A TV show I saw the other night said to grow them in plastic guttering. My ...

Using eggplants  I love eggplant and I grow them a lot. but I don't know if I can preserve them. Can I slice and roast to(seperately)freeze or freeze whole? I don't think ...

Rhubarb growing - removing rhubarb leaves  I saw on comp that you should remove the larger leaves of rhubarb because of high water content. Is this true? Thank you

Passionfruit infertility? No fruit on my passionfruit.  Now three years in, our passionfruit (on grafted root stock) is again producing flowers in abundance and looks a picture of perfection. It has yet to ...

Onions - Can flu virus be absorbed in onions?  I heard if you put an onion in a bowel in each room of your house it will absorb any flu virus that would be in your home see below:

Worth a try... we'...

Lavender... how hardy are they.  How long do these plants live? I had 3 and one bush died.
People love my lavender bushes, and ask if I can give them a branch of it or split it. I am ...

Cantaloupes - when do I pick cantaloupes  How can I tell when it is time to harvest my cantaloupe.

LEGUMES - peas and beans grow then died  I have four 'no-dig' gardens and have had great success with most vegies. However, this year all my peas and beans grew to about 120mm tall then died. I ...

Root crops - How do I grow large root crops?  The root crops I grow never get large.

Black Mustard - Growing black mustard  I would like to have black mustard growing and would like to see a picture, and know more about it.

Knobby potatoes  Burbank Knobby potatoes.
I planted burbank potatoes for the first time this year. The plants are wonderful and loaded with buds for 3 weeks now. I dug ...

pumpkins and cantaloupe going rotten  My canteloupe and pumpkins are growing but when they get to a decent size they get soft and rot. Why?

Broccoli goes to flower  Donna from Wisconsin writes: I'm new to gardening. I planted broccoli seedlings and let them accidently flower. Now what?!

Peas have yellow leaves and broccoli leaves have holes  We live in Southern California( Riverside, hot and dry, I think zone 10) and just started a garden in May. We started it in containers and moved it to ...

Squash not ripening - Huge squash not turning yellow  Question
Why does my squash get too big before it turns yellow?

Slow growing peppers  My peppers are growing sooooo slowly! What is up and do you think they will catch up? It is already July 6 and mine are only about 4 inches tall. I ...

Growing broccoli with leaves eaten off?  I started my first garden ever this summer and it was doing fabulous, and I was so proud of it. I just got back from going away for the holiday weekend ...

Checkered raspberries?  A neighbor gave me some young raspberry plants last season. This is their second season in my raised garden. Plants look great and are producing many ...

Why does my squash produce two different sorts of fruit?  What causes my Yellow crookneck squash to produce both light colored tender fruits and darker colored hard fruits? The hard quashes are so hard they aren'...

confused parsnips.  Hi, I was just wondering if you could tell me a possible explanation for my parsnips being bulbous at the top and then growing numerous smaller roots underneath....

Growing pumpkins in box  Can i grow pumpkins in small 4x4 box type above ground garden.

Planting carrots in a container  how deep does a container need to be to plant something like carrots?

Thin asparagus stalks  My mother has had an asparagus bed for years. The stalks seem to be getting thinner and thinner. What could be causing this?
Thanks for your time. Sincerely,...

Carrots - leave old carrots in the ground, or dig out?  Last fall we didn't pull all of the carrots from the garden before everything froze solid for months. Now here in New England we are just getting ready ...

Support for tomato plants  Last year my tomatoe plants grew 7 feet tall even though I had cages around them. Can tomatoe plants be pruned? Any ideas on supports to keep them vertical?...

Three sisters method of planting  I've been reading up on the three sisters method of planting corn, beans and squash. I was wondering how you work your way thru the beans and corn to ...

Veggies lacking size  Hi there, I have a No-Dig organic veggie garden. I created it around 4 months ago. Filling it with Organic compost and then topping it with veggie mix ...

Radish Leaves  Can Radishes grow without the leaves on top? I tried pulling the plant out thinking it was a weed, and only the leaves popped off.

Very few ears of corn in our corn patch.  We have a small corn patch, about 30ft x 15ft. There are 7 rows and we planted them 24 inches apart. Our patch has very few ears of corn on the stocks....

why are my tomatoes mealy?  I live in AZ. My tomato plants are doing well, and we are just starting to get fruit, but they are mealy, what am I doing wrong? Thank you, Kelly

White onion set gone missing after planted  I have planted white onion set in garden caged by string to stop cats & birds but 2 days ago when checking plot several of the onions were missing no signs ...

Preparing the ground for no dig method  I put down a layer of mixed chicken poop mixed with shredded newspaper and straw, then a layer of leaves. I didn't cover it this time and we are going ...

Calamondin growing problem  My Calamondin - dwarf citrus in container, is not doing well. This fruit tree normally flourishes, and I feed and water regularly. It's well covered in ...

Growing Vegetables upside down - Hanging Garden Quandry  This coming Spring I intend to grow most of my garden (eggplant, peas, beans, cucumbers,melons, tomatoes, etc,) in hanging buckets & bags. The question ...

Dates for planting vegetables - When to plant potatoes?  What are the best dates for planting different vegetables. For example, when is the last date for putting in a potato crop?
We are in the Motueka area ...