Thank you!
I know what's going on my Christmas list this year! (I want a whole set!!!) Though I may grab one now since the last day of the sale appears to be today...
Yep - they don't seem to be dense enough to really "choke out" anything (like kudzu does), but they will climb anything. We are in a drought, and I never ever watered it last year or when it came back this year. It was a sort of "let's see what you can do" thing. They climb and climb and climb...
Same thing. And yes, the sponges ARE made out of this vegetable - when they get large and mature they are all fibrous, and you let them dry on the vine. I'll try to get some photos for you - I have a few of the dried up ones I need to peel and clean. It appeals to me to grow my own kitchen dish scrubbies...
Yup - In my experience, yes and no - they climb all over, and when I grew it in the garden on a proper 8 foot high trellis, it outgrew it and actually started "reaching" for the other trellises in the adjacent beds. I would walk back to the garden and it was a little like Little Shop of Horrors. So, yes, very hard to control unless you're ok with all that sprawl and climbing. But they have not done damage to the trees I have allowed them to climb when I let it go wild, as they are not densely foliated. I'll try to get more photos.
Thanks for sharing this info! I'll need to do this at some point when I hatch from my marans girls.
Love this photo!!!
Daawwwwwwww.........
Good for you! May I ask how you caught it without getting injured? I was thinking I'd somehow get shredded if I tried...
OK, enough procrastinating - I have gardening, planting, and digging to do.
- Ant Farm
, not the most convenient place (for me) if she hatches anything i will need to rearrange the bales so they can jump down
