Lisa

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Adelaide plains:

Australian hardiness zone 4 (USDA zone 10):
Köppen-Geiger climate: Warm, semi-arid (BSh/BSk)
Mean maximum temperature: 22°C (72°F)
Mean minimum temperature: 12°C (54°F)
Annual rainfall: 545mm (21.5")

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I'm an Australian software engineer and tweet as lisa dp. Some plants I'm cultivating now... and being a geek figuring out the family cultivation commonalities between...

Alismatales - Araceae: peace lilies
Apiales - Apiaceae: carrots, celery, coriander, parsley; Araliaceae: Japanese aralias; Pittosporaceae: pittosporum screener
Arecales - Arecaceae: cane palms
Asparagales - Amaryllidaceae: onions, spring onions and other alliums; Xanthorrhoeaceae: aloe vera
Asterales - Asteraceae: lettuces, dahlias, gazanias, common daisies, sea daisies; Goodeniaceae: fan flower
Caryophyllales - Amaranthaceae: beetroots, chard; Nyctaginaceae: bougainvillea; Polygonaceae: rhubarb
Brassicales - Brassicaceae: rockets, cauliflowers, mustards and other brassicas
Cucurbitales - Cucurbitaceae: cucumbers, zucchinis, pumpkins
Fabales - Fabaceae: navy beans, happy wanderer
Lamiales - Lamiaceae: mint, basil, catnip, rosemary, lavender; Scrophulariaceae: creeping boobialla (in lieu of lawn)
Rosales - Moraceae: figs, ornamental ficuses; Rosaceae: apricots, nectarines, apples, standard roses
Poales - Poaceae: sweetcorn
Sapindales - Rutaceae: limes, boronia
Solanales - Solanaceae: tomatoes, capsicums, potatoes, tabasco chilis, bird's eye chilis, Brunfelsia latifolia
Vitales - Vitaceae: red grapes

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Apr 4	comment	How can I renew a Dieffenbachia that has lost all its lower leaves? I have had this problem before and simply cut the whole thing back to a nice round head no wider than 20cm (8 inches) in diameter and it fluffed up with close set leaves nicely. No idea if this is a good idea generally though. The caveat would be that you do water it properly in future!
Jul 3	comment	Why are my French Cobra bean flowers not being pollinated? As most (probably all?) beans are self pollinating the problem is not the lack of bees or insects, but may be heat stress or lack of water which could cause the flowers to drop (regardless of the presence of pollen). Do you have more info on the growing conditions?
Jun 29	comment	Why are my French Cobra bean flowers not being pollinated? What is your question? Are you asking why pollination did not occur? Or are you asking whether or not French beans self pollinate? (I'm 99% sure they are capable of doing so).
Jun 28	comment	Can I espalier a regular black cherry tree starting with 1" trunk, 6' tall? 6 foot sounds a bit late to be starting espaliering but I am no expert. We have an apple that is close to that which I'm going to try late espaliering anyway. It would just be espaliered with more height and you'd have to do it fast before the limbs get too solid to bend and before the trunk tip gets to thick to snip to produce lateral child limbs.
Jun 12	comment	What is the best way to put bonemeal into the soil? Wow that's a myth busting there... Is "bone meal" the American term for "blood and bone"? If so, I'm deeply confused.
May 1	comment	What is this disease on my peach leaf? See this answer to the same question: gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/3092/… It is almost certainly peach leaf curl and is combated when the parasites migrate to or from the leaves in early spring and late autumn.
Apr 18	comment	What can I grow in a sealed office environment with no natural light or airflow? Marking as answer for the most suggestions with extra advice, but all the proposed answers add something. Thanks.
Apr 16	comment	What can I grow in a sealed office environment with no natural light or airflow? Thanks it's a good point if we choose several of the above suggestions.
Apr 13	comment	What can I grow in a sealed office environment with no natural light or airflow? While, it appears that Selaginella lepidophylla is good at surviving in low light, it sounds like it won't come out of its "plant hibernation" state without serious light and some water, making it an unlikely candidate for success in any office because we want to see and enjoy foliage.
Apr 13	comment	What can I grow in a sealed office environment with no natural light or airflow? Based on the information in the links, only Philodendrons and Aspidistras could happily survive such low light. Certainly, I know from sad experience that peace lillies (spathiphyllum) will go yellow and wither.
Apr 13	comment	What can I grow in a sealed office environment with no natural light or airflow? We are probably allowed to bring in the lamps but it would be the taxpayer paying for the electricity in this case so a bit of an extravagance. Also, a hassle. If some plants can survive without additional light and with perhaps just a biannual excursion outdoors then we'd rather choose those than hassle about with grow lamps.
Mar 30	comment	Can I harvest vegetable seeds and store for the next year? I also feel I should point out that the natural alteration (i.e mutation) of DNA is what gives us the sheer variety of plants we already have through entirely natural processes. The tree of life is not immutable and the misunderstanding that it is will stymie efforts to understand and effect plant propagation in your garden.
Mar 29	comment	Can I harvest vegetable seeds and store for the next year? Sorry but this is not good advice. Growing from seeds is an excellent idea in general. If you are worried about GM crops then don't collect your seeds from a GM vegetable or fruit or grain.
Mar 29	comment	How should I build a raised garden bed? +1 for the point about the arsenic treatment leeching into soil.
Mar 26	comment	How do I care for potted apple seedlings over the winter? Those are beautiful seedlings, but remember that all established apple cultivars are clones (typically grafts). I would recommend using these two apples as rootstocks and purchasing (or pinching) grafts from known cultivars to grow actual fruit. You could then graft these on when the saplings are big enough.
Feb 3	comment	What are common places to try for alternatives to commercially available seeds? FYI mainstream media in Adelaide just did a story about the local vege swap I attend: adelaidenow.com.au/dont-ditch-swap-vegies-instead/…
Jan 24	comment	How do you deal with disposing of bougainvillea branches? In case you're interested I did another big huge trim over the weekend and largely managed to avoid being scratched. The council took away the unwanted thorny limbs this morning from our green organic rubbish bin.
Jan 19	comment	What's the best mulch material for a vegetable garden? @nicholas-a-evens Disagree that "no mulch" is the best mulch in a vege garden. Mulching is very useful in really hot areas during the height of summer in particular because it stops the water in the top few cm from evaporating as fast or at all.
Jan 19	comment	What is this discolouration of the skin of my pepper? Agree with yoda. Black is the transitional colour between green and red for most of my plants in the capsicum genus. If you want green peppers, pick now. If you want red ones then wait til they turn red.
Jan 19	comment	How can a green leaved canna's flower color be found when not in bloom? Theory #2: Luck (and great odds on yellow). If you look at the helpfully illustrated Wikipedia page on Canna lily cultivars, the majority (i.e. easily more than 50%) of the flowers could be described as "yellow".