Vegetable grow guides
Vegetables guides
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Stop being kind to your carrots.
Crowded rows grow thin, tangled roots. Thin to a finger apart, twice, and eat the second lot as baby carrots.
Stop watering a little every day.
A light sprinkle keeps roots shallow. Water deeply and less often, the finger test, and why morning matters.
Your zucchini is not broken.
Its first flowers are male and fall without fruit. Tell the two apart, and hand pollinate in one sunny morning.
Grow what the supermarket does not sell.
A watermelon the size of a grape, purple carrots, a currant tomato and purple basil. All from a packet.
Pumpkin Growing in Australia: Timing, Space, Pollination, and Curing for Storage
Pumpkins reward a long warm season and room to roam. When to plant, how much space they need, how to fix pollination, and how to cure...
Growing Spinach At Home: A Comprehensive Guide For Home Gardeners
Spinach is one of the easiest leafy greens to grow at home. Sowing times for Australian climates, soil and watering, and how to stop it bolting...