And there were heaps of them!
Yuck, yuck yuck! I'm squirming just at the photos.I admit, I'm a bit of a princess, I can't touch things like that, and much less can't kill things. So Grumbles had to do all the hard work while I squealed and pointed them out.
Good news is, I've had something else pop up. I believe it is a bromeliade (however you spell that) that I thought I had successfully murdered and it'd gone to spend forever in the big flower garden in the sky. Obviously we just dumped the dirt from the pot in the garden bed. Nice to see something pretty survive and grow on its own accord. One point to Mother Nature. :)
2 comments:
Nice work on the bromeliad, love...
Now.. back to my obsession with Punkin Lerve....
Any ideas on how to increase the number of lady flowers... I have got, like 1, in the last 2 weeks.. all the rest wither and die before they mature.
The one I did successfully impregnate is coming along well.. I think it's turned out to be a QLD Blue variety.
How can I tell when the bugger is ready for harvesting??
Cheers, darl...
Hiya PG!
Not sure if you guys have been getting much rain where you are, but when we were having drought breaking rainfall over the month or 2 we lost most of ours as well. After the rain stopped I was told to give them a little dolomite lime and we have just counted about a dozen over the weekend, they seem to have all been pollinated and growing. The lime definitely seemed to increase our girl numbers. So maybe grab a small bag from the nursery and toss a handful at the base or the plants.
As for picking. If you want them to last in storage, wait until the vine dies off from around it (the stalk turns brown), otherwise if you plan on using straight away, (from what I've seen) they go from looking greener to slightly older and dusty looking. Thats when we have picked our last couple and all have turned out beautiful.
Not that we are experts or anything... :)
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