Does anyone know anything about gardening?

My passionflower has fruited. What do I need to do to harvest and grow from seeds? If at all possible?

This was on Gardener's Question Time on Friday. Basically good luck, it's going to be tough in the UK.

Samesies

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Hmm frustrating as I really like mine and it's done very well this summer.

You need another 3 months of sun

two melons on my melon plants, one holed and hollowed by critters the other ( the size of a large grapefruit ) just picked and had half, a bit under ripe but nice sweet juicy and tasty, looks like a cross between a cantilupe and galia

any ideas on how to encourage numerous fruits on courgettes squashes and melons, my plants seem a bit sparse production wise

Did you mate the male and female flowers? Helps to do this yourself with the aid of a toothbrush.

haven't done that, actually the courgettes and melons appeared with bee type pollination

i'll have a look at rhs website and try and find out the difference between male and female and do some pollinating

I understood you need to pinch out the leader growing point to encourage side shoots.

another failing
is it worth doing that now ? they have about 40cm growth from the root

I reckon so. We could have another 6-7 weeks of growing weather. Try it. You might win a prize in your local horticultural show.

The female usually has the fruit on the back like a small nodule

Compost bins that aren't enormous. Talk to me.

Predominantly for kitchen waste as there won't be a lot from our small garden but we will be growing things so there'll be limited waste of a larger variety from time to time. Small and not completely hideous would be lovely. Tumbling / static / plastic / wooden - who knows? Maybe you do.

We have one of these:

We end up with a lot of grass cuttings so I used big black bins with holes as a second.

My mum has a wormery where the worms escaped which is pretty compact.

I'd be temped to make an insulated one. But the one above for <£100 does seem like a great option. Although it looks a bit ventilated to have near where you might sit or smell it.

My old man has a wormery for his kitchen.
It's relatively compact and produces intense fertilizer.

100l - 200l ones shaped like a dalek can sometime be picked up free from your local council, reduces their green waste handling

would that size be too big

Yeah, prob a bit too big I think. It's a pretty small space. About 4m x 4m with a 1.5 x 10m alley at the bottom of some steep steps. There are two large raised beds in the square area and there's some space in the alley but I don't want to clutter it too much with daleks (it's bike and barbecue storage at the moment until I can figure out if we've got a cellar or not).

Haven't really come across wormeries before but just looked them up now and they seem interesting. My son would love one in a year or so I think.

Wormeries; valuable source of supplemental protein post-brexit?

In.

Ray Mears fed me a maggot once. csb

is that code?

If only. Now THAT would be a story.

Problem with small composters is they don't get hot enough to break down the material in them. Hence why they tend to be pretty big.

A wormery is perfect for kitchen scraps or the insulated composters are good but spendy. Ask @dancing james about them.