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Different Greenhouse Plants
ajb:
Hi guys,
In addition to my usual greenhouse toms and chillies I'm having a go at growing a fruiting banana, some dwarf pink bananas (yes the bananas are supposed to be pink!) and a passion fruit vine. I've also got some Solanum Muricatum (Pepino Melon Tree) and Guava seedlings sprouting in the spare room. No signs of the Naranjilla (lost fruit of the Incas) yet, though.
What unusual plants are you trying?
Any tips on the above gratefully received too!
A.
Kerry:
probably not unusual-but a first for me this year will be melons.
also toms, chillis, peppers and.......cape gooseberries. grew them outside last year so hoping for a better harvest under cover.
pink banana? now that i would like to see!
Mrs Ava:
I grow my narnars in my conservatory but no fruit....yet! Same with pineapples and am pleased to report they fruit easily and the taste, well you will never buy a shop brought piney again. I also have a small guava tree but this is only year 2 so will have to wait and see what happens, and I have a pepino melon tree which, funnily enough, I watered just this morning. It is still healthy looking, altho it is in my currently un heated greenhouse and has lost all of its leaves, but, grandad has one also and his stays out year round and after the frost got it, it came back twice as big ans strong, so I am not worried. I have an olive overwintering in the greenhouse along with a fig tree and a selection of small seed grown palms. I am trying to overwinter a pot of cape gooseberrys to try and achieve a slightly bigger and earlier crop than last year. My overwintering chillis are in the conservatory and are doing well. The aubs sucumbed to aphids...grrrr >:(. I have pomegranite bushes growing but they stay out all year and don't seem to mind the weather at all, I would love to get fruit, but I fear I will be a grandma before that happens. Flowers in the greenhouse, I have a permanent planter full of chinese foxgloves which are gorgeous, attract the bees and ladybirds and keep my moral up when I am in the greenhouse. My problem is room, by the time the chillis, aubs, cuces and toms are in there, and all of my seeds, I have no room left! The floor is normally covered and to get into my greenhouse I have to lift trays out and move into the garden! Thank goodness for my conservatory as that acts like my tropical house. I have a passionflower in there, but no idea of variety as was given it from a lady in Ireland. I keep trying pawpaws and lychees but they need incredibly high humidity, which everything else hates! Have 2 year old kiwi plants in pots which I must plant out! They may well end up on the allotment over my permanent pergolla thingy. Have tried citrus of all types but they always get attacked by scale insect and then aphids so they end up on the compost heap. I may invest one year and buy a mature plant to see if that does any better.
Right, rambled on long enough, as you can probably tell, love my greenhouse and conservatory and all the interesting things you can grow in them! ;D
aquilegia:
Emma - wow you grow pineapple? Did you start it with a pineapple top? when did you plant it? How did you grow it? when did it start fruiting? How big is it? I'd love to grow one (can you tell by all the questions?!).
Kerry:
crikey EJ, there can be no more room left at your house! ;)
please tell all about the pineapple, i'd love to grow one, it's been on my dream list ever since heligan (sigh!).
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