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Growing Tomatoes?Some of our tomatoes are growing fine but some bunch of them are looking like the picture attached. What could cause that? Is it a fungus disease? Or too much water? The lower leaves seems to dry off too.

 

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Rhubarb Died Over the Winter?Why did most of my rhubarb plants die this winter?

 

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Harvesting Georgia Hybrid Collards?My husband planted Georgia hybrid collards last October. They are about 3 1/2 feet tall. Can I still prepare the leaves and which ones? I have not harvested any of it yet. We live in central Florida. They are nice looking. Thank you.

 

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Problem Growing Potatoes?Our potatoes are growing very long spindly tops and there are very few. There are only a few very small spuds per hill. Would it help to mow the tops off at some point to get more and bigger spuds? Any other suggestions would be helpful.

 

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Blooms on Tomato Plant Keep Dying?My husband brought home a healthy plant. After about 2 or 3 weeks there were small black bugs. Which I thought was from the heat. I rinsed the plant with treatment, those stems that had yellow flowers dyed.

 

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Growing a Pineapple Plant?I have a home grown pineapple plant and a strong wind broke its stalk. I have stuck the pineapple and old broken part of the stalk into the ground, it's green in color and about 4 inches around and 6 inches high. What should I do? Thanks.

 

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Zucchini Buds Falling Off?I have two zucchini plants planted in a single 5 gallon pot. They seem healthy overall and I even harvested one fruit this season. But all remaining fruit buds that are forming on the plants are turning yellow, becoming limp and falling off even before they blossom (flowers don't open).

 

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Planting Spaghetti Squash?Planting spaghetti squash too close - what will happen? Hubby planted seeds 2 inches apart. Should they be thinned and by how much

 

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Grapevine with Small Grapes?I have grown a grapevine now for 4 years in my greenhouse. The root is outside the greenhouse, the vine is inside the greenhouse. All I get is bunches of small pea size grapes, very sweet but a lot of pips. Have taken advice over the years; pruning, thinning, feeding, watering, training, etc. But it is the same.

 

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Tomato Plants Not Blooming?My tomato plants are not blooming. The stems turn yellow and they fall off. Any ideas?

 

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Growing Microgreens?My question is whether I can incorporate dryer lint into shredded paper pulp to create mats for growing microgreens or sprouting. I am going to try this soon, just wondered if anyone had tried it before.

 

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Tomato Plants Grow Tall But Don't Produce Much Fruit?My tomato plants always get extremely tall. Sometimes over 8 or 9 feet. I don't get a lot of tomatoes. What can I do to increase my yield of tomatoes and keep my plants at a manageable height?

 

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No Flowers on My Hydroponic Tomato Plants?I'm growing tomatoes in an hydroponic Aerogarden in my house. I have great plants, but no flowers. I've checked with the company and still I have no flowers after doing everything they recommended. Can anybody help?

 

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Tomato Plants Don't Have a Lot of Flowers?My tomato plants are not flowering much. What am I doing wrong? I usually have no problem. I planted Big Boy using Osmocote and water as needed plenty of sun.

 

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Indoor Roma Tomatoes Not Flowering?I started a project at work growing Roma tomatoes from seeds. I transferred them into buckets (sand buckets like for the beach) they are now really tall, but not flowering. They face south so they have direct sun for 7 hours a day. I planted the seeds in April. Am I doing something wrong?

 

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Patio Tomato Not Blooming?I bought a patio tomato plant for a large container on my porch. It had 1 small tomato on it when I got it, but has never had any other blossoms nor has it gotten much bigger. Otherwise the plant is healthy, no bugs, and I am not overfeeding it. I have grown tomatoes for years and never had this problem.

 

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Tomato Plants Not Setting Fruit?There are small, fuzzy flowers that have developed all over my large tomato plant, but they are not turning into fruit. In all my years of tomato growing I have never seen this before!

 

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Growing Wheat Under Artificial Light?Can we grow wheat using artificial light?

 

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Growing Tomatoes?I am just wondering who had good luck with certain kinds of tomato plants? I tried a few new varieties last year, but was not impressed. I did best with Early Girl and Celebrity. I also like the Husky Cherry reds.

 

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Tomato Plants Stopped Blooming?I have tomatoes on my 6 plants. I have picked about 12 and they taste great. I have lots of tomatoes on the plants, but I noticed there are no flowers on the plants now.

 

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Intercropping in a Maize Field?Which crop is used for the intercropping in a maize field?

 

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Volunteer Tomato Plant?A tomato plant grew from a crack in the pavement on our property. My question is about how safe are the tomotoes to eat? The reason I ask, is that it grew out of concrete, not soil, and more concerning, it is located about 50 cm-1 meter above the underground sewage pipe.

 

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Growing Tomatoes?On the tomato tag in the pot when you buy the plant, it has the tomato type and a maturity time. When does the maturity time start? When the seed is planted? When you put the plant in the ground? When? Thanks.

 

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Zucchini Plants Stopped Setting Fruit?I'm growing courgettes in green houses. The problem is that my production has stopped after a few weeks even though my plants are strong and have green large leaves. Bees are also working very well. I don't think there is poor pollination. Can you give some suggestions as to what may be the problem?

 

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Short Onions Not Growing?The white and yellow short onions sets were planted 4 weeks ago and have not done anything. Further my green onions have been in from seed for 6 weeks and have just broken up through the soil and have not done anything either.

 

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Green Bell Pepper Turning Black at Tip?I have one very nice bell pepper about 5 inches long, and the very end or tip is turning black. Any idea why?

 

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Using Blighted Green Tomatoes?I tried cutting off the blighted areas of the tomatoes, then frying them. They were too hard for me to eat, but my hens liked them.

 

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Tomato Plants Only Producing a Few Fruit?We have a small tomato plant garden with 4 heirloom tomato plants planted about 18 inches apart. The plants have grown well and produced flowers, but have only produced 5 tomatoes.

 

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Tomato Plants Not Setting Fruit?Why are my tomato plants growing, but not producing fruit?

 

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What's Eating My Tomato Plant?I purchased a tomato plant, about a foot tall, put it in potting soil and even added ground eggshells. This happens every year. Something just eats away at the leaves (like a moth eats at fabric). I put Sevin dust one year, that just killed the plant.

 

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Black Spots on Tomatoes?What causes black spots on tomatoes?

 

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Growing Corn?I would like to know how to grow corn at home. Also there are 3 pods on the plant. How long will it be before it gives a crop to harvest?

 

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Growing Cantaloupes?Our cantaloupes are not sweet. Why?

 

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Knowing When Tomatoes Are Ripe?I have large green tomatoes on the vine, planted from pots. How can I tell when they are ripe or will they turn red? I am a beginning gardener.

 

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Something Eating Grape Vine Leaves?Will ants eat the leaves on my grapevines? If not, what else could it be?

 

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Cantaloupe Plants Not Setting Fruit?I have long beautiful vines with lots of blossoms, but no fruit. Why?

 

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Tomatoes Not Getting Very Large?My tomato plants are loaded with fruit and blooms, but the tomatoes are not getting large enough before turning red. They are about tennis ball sized.

 

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Spacing Okra Plants?What is a good spacing between okra plants?

 

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Tomatoes Not Setting Fruit?My tomatoes are big and healthy and have some bloom, but no fruit. Everything else in the garden is great.

 

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Growing Tomatoes Next to Blueberries?Can tomatoes be planted next to blueberries?

 

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Identifying Male and Female Flowers on Zucchini and Cuke Plants?How do I know the difference between a male and a female zucchini and cucumber plant?

 

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Zucchini Not Setting Fruit?My zucchini plants look beautiful and have large green leaves. They were grown from seeds (which were planted 1-16-12). There are beautiful large blooms, but no zucchinis yet. What is the problem?

 

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Growing Rhubarb?Do you plant the seed part of the rhubarb to make new plants, or is that bad?

 

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Shopping for a Passion Fruit Vine?I live in Geraldton, and while it is a great place to live, sourcing something as specific as a "passion fruit vine" is rather difficult to accomplish. I have been searching, surfing the web, in order to find a seller of passion fruit vines here in Western Australia, but as yet have had no joy.

 

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Rhubarb Gone to Seed?Our rhubarb plant has "gone to seed"; do we cut this off or leave it as it is? The rhubarb was growing fine then all of a sudden it grew this huge globe shaped head on one of the stalks. It burst open and, hey presto, seeds.

 

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Harvesting Stevia?I am growing stevia in the tropics. I want to know how stevia is harvested and when it should be harvested? Our stevia has a great problem, in that it flowers frequently before it has matured. How can I solve this problem or what is the cause of this issue?

 

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Growing Fordhook Lima Beans?I need planting info on Fordhook Lima beans.

 

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Yellow Squash End Rot?I live in central Louisiana and my yellow squash are rotting from the blossom end at very early age. What could be the cause?

 

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Harvesting Rhubarb?If rhubarb gets frozen a little in the ground in the early spring, is it ruined in any way?

 

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Tomato Plants Stopped Blooming?When I planted my tomatoes it had blooms. There are 1 or 2 big green tomatoes on the plants. They stopped blooming and where the bloom should be, they've turned a blackish color. The tomatoes that are on the plants look great and are growing everyday, just no new blooms.

 

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Growing Tortarello Chiaro Cucumbers?I brought back the above seeds from Crete. I now have healthy plants. Can I grow them outdoors along the ground?

 

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Growing Micro Greens?I have tried several inexpensive ways to grow micro greens and none are very good. Dirt is the worst, as it clings to the plants and is very hard to get them clean. Vermiculite didn't seem to work very well for me.

 

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Planting Peas and Beans in Berry Rows?Can I plant peas in my raspberry and blackberry rows and let them climb? Can I plant beans along the edge of my berry rows to help improve the soil?

 

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Cucumbers Bitter?My cucumbers the past two years have been very bitter. Any suggestions?

 

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Chiles Are Brown on Top Instead of Red?My chile plants that I have had for years that always produced red chiles are now producing brown chiles. It kind of appears to be only where the sun gets on the fruit, for example on the top and not the bottom. Have my chile plants gotten some kind of disease?

 

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Planting Cantaloupe?How soon can I plant cantaloupe in the spring and what's the best container?

 

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Pumpkin Vines Not Setting Fruit?A pumpkin patch was started by mistake with seeds from last year's pumpkins. We have lots of yellow flowers, but none have sprouted the pumpkins yet. What can I do to get fruit to set?

 

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Covering Cantaloupes at Night?We live northeast of Spokane, Washington in zone 5. When should I put the cover on my cantaloupes? It has been hot during the days, but now it is in the high 70s and cooling off at night to in the 40s. Thank you.

 

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Growing Truffles?How do I grow truffles?

 

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Growing Cantaloupe?This is my first time growing cantaloupes and the vines are beautiful with nice large fruit, however, the fruit is not sweet at all. I do not pick them until they are ripe and have come loose from the vine. Do I need to add something to the soil to make them sweeter?

 

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Something is Eating My Tomatoes?Something is eating the tomatoes at the bottom of my plants in my garden in southeast Pennsylvania. What could it be? A rat? squirrels? rabbits?

 

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Tomatoes Blooming But Not Producing Fruit?I have very healthy looking tomato plants with plenty of flowers, but have yet too see any fruit. It is the middle of July and do not understand why my tomatoes are not producing any fruit yet. The plants are all very healthy looking. Does anyone have any ideas?

 

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Pumpkins Bloomed But Did Not Set Fruit?I tried planting pumpkins last year and got plenty of blossoms, but no pumpkins. What do I need to do to get the actual pumpkin to grow?

 

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Why Are My Bell Peppers So Small?I have tried to grow green peppers, even though I get a lot of peppers on the plant, they only get less than 3 inches in diameter. My garden has full sun and the soil is great, why is this?

 

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Zucchini Falling Off The Vine Early?My zucchini are falling of the vine when they reach 1 inch long. What can I do?

 

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Growing Cantaloupes?I have cantaloupe plants that had bloomed with yellow small flowers. Am I suppose remove the blossoms for the fruit to grow or not? I don't want to kill my fresh produce.

 

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Tomato Plants Set Fruit Then Shrivel and Die?I'm having so much trouble growing tomatoes. Just when the plant is bearing lots of them, it seems to shrivel up like it's not getting enough water and the leaves turn yellow then black. The tomatoes are smaller in size, split open and rot on the vine.

 

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Tomato Plants Not Producing Fruit?I have planted seeds for cherry tomatoes in pots. I have lots of blossoms, but no tomatoes. Can you help?

 

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Pumpkin Plants Not Setting Fruit?I am attempting to grow pumpkins. My pumpkin plants are looking great. I planted two together, kept them watered, I have lots of flowers and they are about 6 feet long. I started to get a couple of pumpkins, but they died.

 

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Growing Cantaloupe?This is the first year I've planted cantaloupe. Do they start out green and then turn to tan? I have several about 8 in. in diameter.

 

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Preventing Clubroot in Cabbages?I have heard of dipping cabbage plant roots into a chemical before planting to prevent clubroot. I don't know what chemical or whether this is a good idea. Has anybody got knowledge or opinion on this?

 

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Plant Your Sprouting Potatoes?I just found a bag of potatoes with sprouts as long as 10 inches; there is no smell to the bag. Can I plant them? And do I cut the potatoes in half with sprout attached or put the whole potato with sprouts in ground?

 

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How Do I Grow Onions from Discarded Bottoms?I found the instructions of how to plant onions from discarded bottoms. Unfortunately it didn't work for me. I will try again. Has anybody

 

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Harvesting Horseradish?I was told that for really "hot" horseradish, you should harvest in either spring or fall. I can't remember which one. Maybe it really doesn't matter?

 

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Growing Acorn Squash from Supermarket Squash?I planted some seeds from an Acorn squash I bought at the supermarket a few months ago and now have quite a few about to ripen. The only thing is, they look nothing like an Acorn squash.

 

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Foxglove as Companion Plant to Fruits and Vegetables?I need to know if it is safe to grow foxglove as a companion plant with vegetables and berries.

 

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Leaves on Tomatoes in Topsy Turvy Tree Turning Yellow?What would make my tomato plants leaves turn yellow? I am growing them in a Topsy Turvy Tree. I don't even have any tomatoes on them yet.

 

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Growing Tomatoes In Hanging Baskets?I've seen commercials for the hanging baskets to grow upside down tomatoes. Do these really work and does anyone know how difficult they are to use? Thanks so much.

 

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Planting Potatoes?I remember an article about planting potatoes in an upright position which allowed you to remove the bands and harvest without digging, but cannot find the article.

 

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Growing Vegetables in an Apartment?I would like to know if there is any way that I can raise some vegetables especially tomato plants this summer? My husband and I live in a small second floor apartment with no porch or yard. Any help would be appreciated.

 

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Growing Food in the Fall and Winter?I would like to ask Kathleen from Dothan, Alabama what and how she grows produce in the off season months during fall and winter? I am an amateur gardener and would like to learn more about growing year around.

 

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Rhubarb Plants Turning Yellow?Why are my rhubarb plants turning yellow and soft? I have 3 plants, two have done this. Getting rhubarb to grow successfully in your zone may be a tall order.

 

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Corn Is Not Growing?We fertilized the field and planted corn. Only weeds are growing. Whats wrong?

 

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When Are Bell Peppers Ready to Pick?This is my first time for growing bell peppers (a/k/a green peppers). I have several that will be ready to be picked soon. How do I know when they are ready to be picked?

 

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When Should I Plant Garlic?Last fall I planted some fall garlic and it just about all rotted in the ground. Is it too cold here, or is there something I didn't do? Is spring planting better for here?

 

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Why Are My Green Beans Yellow?My green beans are yellowish. What are they lacking?

 

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Broccoli, Cauliflower and Cabbage Not Forming Heads?My broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage have many large leaves and look very healthy. However they haven't started to form any heads. Have just large plants.

 

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Chili Seeds?I am looking for information about growing chili plants from existing fruit, seed storage and drying to get the seed.

 

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Growing Madagascar Grapes?Does anyone have information about Madagascar Grapes? Information about the seeds, growing instructions, can it grow in Texas heat and black soil, etc.?

 

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Grubs Eating My Tomatoes?I am growing tomatoes but the leaves are going yellow, some of the fruit are splitting and they also look as though they are housing grubs (by the burrowing into the fruit).

 

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Potato Plants Not Blooming?I planted potatoes in pots on my balcony. They are now over a metre and a half high but have not bloomed. There are 5 plants, only one has had 3 blooms.

 

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Small Tomatoes?I live in Montreal Quebec and made myself a small garden outside my office. It's full of tomatoes but some are not too big and all of them are green still. I took off the branches with no tomatoes very gentily to give more power to the tomatoes. Did I make a mistake?

 

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Picking a Pineapple?I have a pineapple plant that is fully matured and the pineapple is ripe. How do I actually "pick it"?

 

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Cracked Cantaloupes?I am growing cantaloupes for the first time and every time the melon starts to get big, it cracks and gets invaded with ants. Any suggestions on what I should do to prevent this?

 

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Growing Mammoth Sunflowers?I raised Mammoth Sunflowers this year, and they were beautiful. I would like to try to do it for a living, what spray should I use for the bugs that get into the seeds?

 

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Potato Squash Not Producing Squash?I have sweet potato squash planted in a large pot. They are making plenty of flowers but no squash.

 

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Big Leaves but Small Potatoes?My potato plants have huge leaves but only a few small potatoes. What is the problem. We use cow manure for fertilizer.

 

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Prickly Spines on Cucumbers?I'm growing 2 kinds of cucumbers, one is a pickling type (can't remember the exact name), the other is called "straight eight". They both have prickly spines on them, what is causing this?

 

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When Should I Pick My Chili Peppers?I am growing Santa Fe green chili peppers, they are about 8 inches long, but not sure if ready to pick? How do I know when to pick? Once picked how do I remove skin, for cooking. I know its tough skin, most say grill or broil, is there any other way?

 

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Planting Food in Creosote Logs?My mom and I are planting a garden. She has some old creosote logs about 40 years old. Is it ok to plant strawberries in the holes of the logs? I don't want anyone to get sick on strawberry short cake.

 

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Everbearing Strawberries Not Producing Fruit?I have a question about everbearing strawberries. I have tried everything, but they do not produce strawberries all year long. Once they start too throw there chutes they quit producing. I get 1 batch from them and that is it.

 

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Problems Growing Corn (and Zucchini)?Last year I planted the same garden as I have for the last 5 years: tomatoes, peppers, corn, zucchini, green beans, exc. The problem is that the zucchini and the corn did nothing. The plants were there but the corn (I planted 6 or 8 rows) came up with only 4 corn plants which the bugs took care of.

 

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