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Don`t make the mistake I made by planting one in a greenhouse-they grow and grow!!Not so much `pruning` needed as major butchery :)
That's still a baby Betty... they can reach 20' easily... there are some in the parkland attached to Anthony House on the south coast... :)
Quote from: cleo on June 23, 2009, 16:34:08Don`t make the mistake I made by planting one in a greenhouse-they grow and grow!!Not so much `pruning` needed as major butchery :)If planted in my walk-in coldframe it would surely survive BUT I'd have little room to grow anything else unless it was sternly pruned and trained. But maybe I'll think about that... hmmmm. So many ways to skin a cat.
It should fruit next year Squashfan.. just keep cutting out the top Betty...and encourage lateral rather than vertical growth... :-X
There is a Bavarian Variety that is supposed to be extra frost hardy... :-\
Quote from: GrannieAnnie on June 23, 2009, 17:15:36Quote from: cleo on June 23, 2009, 16:34:08Don`t make the mistake I made by planting one in a greenhouse-they grow and grow!!Not so much `pruning` needed as major butchery :)If planted in my walk-in coldframe it would surely survive BUT I'd have little room to grow anything else unless it was sternly pruned and trained. But maybe I'll think about that... hmmmm. So many ways to skin a cat.I don't know if this would work where you are (thinking of those winter temps!) but how I over :) winter some of my more delicate and precious plants in the garden (mostly yellow cannas) I get a bigger pot than the 1 they are already in, put some straw in the bottom, then put the plant & pot in then stuff more straw around the sides then shove more straw around the plant and then wrap in fleece. Nice and snug!! I remember seeing the banana plants wrapped up in a similar way at Christopher Lloyds garden, except they left them in the ground and then built a frame around them and filled the frame with straw, and covered with fleece. But this is all in East Sussex .....1066