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| About the Author anna10 melbourne 24th September 2009 12:55pm #UserID: 2830 Posts: 4 View All anna10's Edible Fruit Trees |
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JUJUBE FOR SALE IN MELBOURNE says... Hi Anna, If they are already in pots then submege them in water, treat them as pond plants and you may have to use pebles to weight the soil down otherwise some particle in soil may float and the water will be muddy. If you just have the rhizomes then plant in pots just like you planting bulbs cover in a layer of soil then submege in water. All the best. They grow well in Melbourne. Havest in May when the plants die down and use some rhizome for next year planting. | About the Author JUJUBE FOR SALE 24th September 2009 1:02pm #UserID: 2706 Posts: 715 View All JUJUBE FOR SALE's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author hwa ermington 2nd February 2014 4:17pm #UserID: 9426 Posts: 1 View All hwa's Edible Fruit Trees |
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sternus1 says... Hwa, water chestnuts are not and aquatic plant, strictly speaking. They require a good amount of soil. You can simply pot them and subnmerge this however if you don't want to line the pond with soil. I was growing them in my pond, but they were chewed to bits by the mother of all redclaw crays which is presumably Still lurking about in there somewhere. Last time I saw it it was huge, must be spectacular by now assuming it hasn't kicked the bucket. s | About the Author sternus1 Australia 2nd February 2014 4:34pm #UserID: 8314 Posts: 1318 View All sternus1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Julie Roleystone WA 2nd February 2014 9:10pm #UserID: 154 Posts: 1842 View All Julie's Edible Fruit Trees |
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sternus1 says... Definitely. You could pot them up, and have the pot half submerged in a container and they would grow that way. They are nothing like lillies or duckweed, traditionally they grow at the edge of swamps. So long as the bulbs themselves stay submerged, there is never going to be a problem. | About the Author sternus1 Australia 2nd February 2014 9:27pm #UserID: 8314 Posts: 1318 View All sternus1's Edible Fruit Trees |
e-harris says... Hwa, I'm also in Sydney and have had good success with water chestnuts in an old bathtub in my backyard. Full sun, and because the water was over 30cm deep we weren't bothered by biting mosquitos. The frogs and tadpoles kept them in check anyway. The tub had a lot of gravel and leaf litter/old detritus in the bottom which the chestnuts grow into. They don't stay in the pot they send out roots which then make new chestnuts at the ends. But the advantage to having a pot is that you can easily retrieve the plant when it comes time to dry them out and harvest. I've currently got 2 or 3 corms growing in an 80L tub which is quite deep and they seem to be loving it. I put them in a wire basket to let the roots out and also added extra garden mix/peat to the tub which settled to the bottom for a good substrate. Nothing beats the taste of fresh water chestnuts!!! | About the Author e-harris Blacktown 3rd February 2014 11:41am #UserID: 9429 Posts: 2 View All e-harris's Edible Fruit Trees |
| About the Author Thao Sydney 3rd February 2014 2:34pm #UserID: 1228 Posts: 35 View All Thao's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author loewenzahn Katoomba 3rd February 2014 7:22pm #UserID: 8357 Posts: 60 View All loewenzahn's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author sternus1 Australia 3rd February 2014 8:01pm #UserID: 8314 Posts: 1318 View All sternus1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author loewenzahn Katoomba 3rd February 2014 9:23pm #UserID: 8357 Posts: 60 View All loewenzahn's Edible Fruit Trees |
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