big news of a very chuffed nature!! I bought, last year some passion flower seeds a
nd started growing the vine in oour conservatory. Well, the vine grew and grew and grew but I was going passed hope that it would ever flower. I know nothing about growing passion flowers, I'm a stick it in the pot and see, treat 'em all the same, kinda grower. Well, after looking desidedly dead for a while, and I had no idea why, it has started growing again and yes, you've guessed it!! It's flowering!! It is not the worlds prettiest flower but it is very exotic looking and I am well pleased that I managed to get it to flower!!
It joins in our conservatory a very strange cucumber. Not strange in itself, it was just a freebie given away at work, but I am growing it upright!! i decided to grow it in the conservatory as my greenhouse has been wrecked... its a long 'Cat On A Weak Plastic Roof' story. So I bunged the plant in a pot and off it went, I noticed it put out little grabby feelers an thought great, taht'll save space if I can get it to go up, 'stead of just leaving it flopping about. Well, it seems perfectly happy to go up and has gone up and up!!I have been doing great with my garden and growing attempts this year!! Loads of tomatoes of my one plant, loads of beans of my 8 beans and the passion flower/cucumber success.. well... My secret? Leave 'em alone!! They have all resulted from me bunging them in a pot and saying:
'Get on with it then.'
Hurray for hands-off gardening!!!
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