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Old 21-11-2006, 10:50 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Suggestions please - vacant wall


"Charlie Pridham" wrote in message
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As some of you know, if you can grow it and eat it, I will have a go.

Picking edible outdoor figs and kiwi fruits on Nov 15 - amazing.

Anyway, my Jerusalem Artichokes have been expelled from the walled

garden
for indiscipline, and Mrs Pat has banned me from growing anything quite

so
likely to fall all over the path and drip all over her.

So I have a piece of wall 6' high and 3'6'' wide available, wired and
ready. Alas, it is north facing and not big enough for the usual

damsons,
acid cherries, blackberries etc.

Needs to be something that likes a wall, but does not need to much sun

and
is not too big....and is edible

Any ideas anyone?


Does nobody have any idea?

I know it is difficult, but there must be something. Nature abhors a

vacuum.


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Pat Gardiner
www.go-self-sufficient.com


Well Holboellia will grow there and has edible fruit, but I have to say
you
can get old waiting for them as it seldom sets fruit in the UK. What about
Lapageria? needs acid soil, and whether I could bring myself to eat the
edible fruit knowing their worth I am not sure!


Thanks for that. I was unfamiliar with both, but on checking the Holboellia
seems too tender for the site - and some varieties get too large - the
Lapageria would not like my soil or water supply. (I do grow both
Blueberries and Cranberries but on imported soil and special rainwater
supply. This site is too far away from a lime free supply.

Thanks anyway. Back to the drawing board.


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Pat Gardiner
www.go-self-sufficient.com

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Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
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Holders of National Plant Collections of Clematis viticella (cvs) and
Lapageria rosea