Gardening thread

Ah yeah I know.

I did have a passion fruit plant before we got the house extended, it's a plant that grows a long a wall, similar to ivy or trumpet vine.

The fruits wouldn't develop fully to eat, however, my old man would come along pick a few and eat them.

It was far across the sea,
When the devil got a hold of me,
He wouldn't set me free,
So he kept me soul for ransom.
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I'm a sailor man from Glasgow to

Claret Murph wrote:

McG

Very impressed you did really well now you know how big these babies grown don't you ?

Not sure if we have the weather for them to be honest , i used to work on an Avocardo plantation in Isreal for a couple of months which was fun .

You can only get those ones in Waitrose.

Claret Murph wrote:

McG

Very impressed you did really well now you know how big these babies grown don't you ?

Not sure if we have the weather for them to be honest , i used to work on an Avocardo plantation in Isreal for a couple of months which was fun .

Yeah, i read 7 foot? But sure i can prune it back.

It's a year old now.

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Baldrick wrote:

McG wrote:

Avocado tree Horse

Ultimate hipster growing an avocado in a craft beer glass

This is pedantic in the extreme, even by my standards, but Blue Moon cannot be classified as a craft beer due to the recommendations of the Brewers Association. I believe Coors have actually been sued as a result of this, basically a breach of product advertising.

McG wrote:

Claret Murph wrote:

McG

Very impressed you did really well now you know how big these babies grown don't you ?

Not sure if we have the weather for them to be honest , i used to work on an Avocardo plantation in Isreal for a couple of months which was fun .

Yeah, i read 7 foot? But sure i can prune it back.

It's a year old now.

7 foot , not sure about that as i had to use ladders to get to ones at the top of the trees .

Again all depends on what kind of tree it is but i am sure it will out live the both of us

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Yohhhhh Lilly

The big one looks great i must say .

Now bottom line i only grow birds eye chilies but you need bigger pots from what you have .

I will take a pic and send one on but you need to weed them out best replant them as soon as possible .

Best to water them and weed them right after .

Also a tip form a mate of mine in Melbourne is to keep the different chilies apart as some seem to mutate into one kind which is the strongest .

Lansdowne Road debut aged 52 and 201 days .

Lansdowne Road debut aged 52 and 201 days .

Anyone noticed there seems to be a good few bees around this year?

They finally did it man... They killed my f**kin' car...

with a lot more time on our hands, now might be a time to think about putting a bit of colour into your gardens for years to come. The cheapest way and easiest is to take cuttings of plants, put 4 or 5 into a pot, wait a month or so and pot them on. I do it every year with hydrangeas, and are very easy to propagate. From next month on, hydrangeas will start their new growth, green shoots from last years woody stems. Take a cutting just below a couple of leaves, about 6 inches long, remove all the leaves from all the cutting except top two. If top leaves are very big, cut half the leaves off horizontally. Plant into edge of pot and repeat.

Take plenty of cuttings, because approx 50% will die.

After about a month or two, if they have rooted, pot them on.

Leave over winter and plant out next summer and you might be lucky and it will flower the same summer.

Free gardening and great for the mental health. IMO, the reason gardening is so benficial mentally lads is because you are always thinking ahead to how things will look or taste depending what you are growing. Look to the future, not live in the past. Thumbs Up