Does anyone know anything about gardening?

Our new smoothie patch; Banana (Cavendish), pineapple and red papaya...

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Love Cavendish Bananas

We should get a crop of bananas inside a year, I find this concept absolutely mindblowing... Also gonna get some passion fruit going just behind these guys, I'm told they grow on a vine... #ireallyhavenoideawhatimdoing

The pineapple will take two years to fruit, hardly seems worth it!! 😉

Passion fruit are massive climbers, we have one that covered our whole left side fence last year

Pineapples were covered on last week's gardeners' question time

I don’t get it

Summer fruit:
hmm W10 finally updated & Firefox upto date
and I still cannot upload pictures.

And then a few hours later, it only allowed a single upload.

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All homegrown in the verdant soil of Mespilus Towers.

Lovely!

Oooohh, homegrown berries are the best!

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#hosepipebans

I'm slowly formulating a plan in my head of exactly what I want in our garden, some raised beds for vegetables, fruit trees dotted around the place, native flowers in big pots all around the garden to attract pollinators and a slightly wild lawn... I don't want a proper, proper lawn, a cropped, green area where you can chuck a blanket down is fine...

I bought a bee hotel last week, probably the wrong time of year to attract some guests but it's there now... Also looking at getting some native stingless honey bees, just cuz they're beautiful and will pollinate our macadamia trees, only one is fruiting at the moment... I'll build or buy a hive, cover it in propilis and hope for the best, don't feel too good about buying an off the peg hive... #thinkingoutloud

We've also got two huuuuuge water tanks, so we should be good for irrigation if there's a drought any time soon...

macadmia tree pineapple banana papaya

living the dream

just need an avaocado for the perfect garden

Lori doesn't want an avocado tree, maybe because they take a while to grow and her mum's already got one in her garden... The dog seems to eat them all tho', I thought they were bad for dogs!!!

It's pretty mad how fast stuff grows here...

is there an easy way to make London tap water acceptable to camelia, azalea etc? can you do something as simple as add a bit of vinegar to it? my bucket of rainwater is about to run out. I sometimes use cold leftover boiled water, but given the state of my kettle there tends to be a load of limescale bits in it, even if the water isn't 'hard' anymore.

Sieve your kettle water?

... it also seems like an excessively energy-intensive thing to do in more than small amounts

You could dress the plants with peat. Also if you are a coffee wanker the grounds are acidic.

A final resort is to use urine.

RHS site doesn't seem fussed about using hard water for a month or two

https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=327

always with the urine...
I don't coffee but I might start deconstructing my used teabags.

ta. will add a handful of ericaceous stuff to the pot and not be too precious about using tap water for a bit.

If they're in the ground I'm not sure they will need much attention - ours look fine

I use coffee or hops on my azalea.

Starbucks sell off their grinds

My local indy coffee shop are very happy to give me a sack of used espresso pucks, gratis. Worth asking.