Gardening Thread

[Mochamoos]

RJL Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Information Sheets: Passion Flowers and Passion Fruit

[RLJ]

See you in 3 weeks! LOL

R

[RLJ]

So do they fruit from the same place as the flowers. We must have had about 150 blooms this year so far in batches of about 30 at a time and it is still going. Its rampant. Or do we have a non fruiting variety.

R

[Happyolddog]

Thats ok liam it was only 3 weeks ago and i was loosing the will to live waiting for your reply. When and how do they fruit?

R

PMSL I lost the will to live now.

Late August they will bare fruits........edable as soon as they turn colour.
The colour depends on the veriety.

Best of luck,
Hod...Liam...

[RLJ]

Thats ok liam it was only 3 weeks ago and i was loosing the will to live waiting for your reply. When and how do they fruit?

R

[Happyolddog]

They are Moch, Lovely delicate scent too. Sure do admire them pepps

RLJ

Sorry for missing this post.

Yes passion flower/passiflora has the most beautiful fruit, they taste great.

Best wishes,
Hod..Liam...

[RLJ]

Thats not a garden its a wilderness! Attack it with a strimmer to start with. I havent seen a slow worm for years since i was a kid and we used to go down on the railway line to catch them.

R

[Mochamoos]

The new garden! Slightly over grown... any ideas! Grass is about 2ft high, has loads of grasshoppers and dragonflies. Think I saw a slow worm as well

Ohhh I am severly allergic to biting bugs so need a garden that doesnt attract mosquitoes or midges of possible!

Must have veggie patch and lots of love!

[Mochamoos]

Evereyone seems to have had a bed year of growing veg.

Just come in from the garden, discovered what was left of my tomatoes (most destroyed bt storm) have last blight.

Cucumbers succumbed to the mosaic virus, and now my beloved capsicums are coved in red spider mites. Squiching the little buggers one by one does not seem to be an option there are millionsof them.

My first batch of potatoes were great now this second batch have potatoe blight.

The only bits doing ok at the moment are my lettuces and basil. (not sure if chilli's are infected with the red devils aswell)

Really gutted about my tomaotoes, today has been a bad day and finding them sick just tipped me over the edge. (just cried over tomatoe plants how sad:o)

[peed 'orf]

Anyone know how to deal with red spider mites?
Peed'orf
Hows the kolhrabi? Thought of you today when I brought a gardening mag and there was a big spread on growing it...

No idea about spider mites, or kolhrabi apparently! It's tall and very thin. might take shape later but I think it's a bit late.
Pak choi went straight to seed!
Slugs have eaten the squash, cucumber, marrows and all but one mellon!
Tomatoes are the size of pin heads.
The only thing that might do alright is me spuds, tucked up in their little bags, growing quite nicely!
Oh and the Katey apple tree is absollutly loaded again this year.

[Mochamoos]

Anyone know how to deal with red spider mites?



Peed'orf

Hows the kolhrabi? Thought of you today when I brought a gardening mag and there was a big spread on growing it...

[RLJ]

Hi Pkea

Maybe you should adjust the time and distance between turning them to allow them to grow upwards a bit more. Perhaps you are turning them round to much. Perhaps less than 90 degrees at a time. Just a thought.

RLJ

[Paule]

I am trying to spiral the stems of some of my sunflowers
It looks more like right angles though...lol
As they lean to the sun if you turn them every so often the stems twist,
unfortuantley with the weather some half right angles.lol
ile get some pics soon then you wil know what i mean

[Mochamoos]

They like hot, and outside its not hot.. LOL, so they live on the sun facing window sill over the heater .

I know thats why I am so surprised they grow here, I had mine when I lived in overseas. Very impressed.

Sunflowers are great they always make me smile,such happy flowers! All my seeds got eaten by the birds this year Keep going to visit my friends sunflowers

[Paule]

They like hot, and outside its not hot.. LOL, so they live on the sun facing window sill over the heater .
One of them was bare last winter as they go dormant, and thought it had no chance of coming back..

At present the only other things i am growing are a few varities of sunflowers, Ile post some pics of them as some are started to open.
The weather is giving them a good kicking though,,,