Oh my goodness, I had no idea you had such a garden! I'm dead jelly of the mango. I did read that passionfruit love chicken coops, but only last about 5 years, so I have decided not to bother. That might be wrong of course - believe it or not I am sometimes wrong. Don't tell my husband.
as the flower would probably give us a concussion if it fell on us.
Oh man, it would, they are such heavy things! The chooks love pecking at the seeds though so it's great to grow them just for them. Please show me if they flower! Crazy big.
I really enjoyed this post - you sure have a lot going on.
I don't think I've ever posted about it before on hive so ^_^; Do mangos not like growing over where you are? Or space issues? Some mango trees get quite big, not sure if this one will (it might just be slow but all the other trees including the one that was meant to be a dwarf have overshot it).
J reckons that passionfruit will fruit about 7 years on average but might sit there for 20 years so if you want fruit you'd have to keep replacing it but if you just want shade for your chickens with bonus fruit for a while they're good :)
I will definitely be posting about it if they flower, it will either be quite an event or an equally hilarious non-event I think, not sure if there will be much in between XD J reckons we might need to hire a helicopter to reach the flowers if they ever flower XD
Glad you enjoyed it ^_^
A mini helicopter if you shrink yourself down like Mike TV? I like that image a lot.
Nah Victoria doesn't have the climate for mangoes
Sheesh I could be dead in 7 years - may as well grow passionfruit, hey? They really are one of my favourite fruit - Jamie hates the seeds, so I'd have them all to myself. But the passionfruit vine would be a bugger to pull out and replace hey - ugh.
Ideally not but nothing guaranteed I guess?! x_x J sometimes likes to complain if he finds something particularly annoying and I didn't hear anything about it so I guess he didn't find it too difficult. Maybe try it once and see if the fruit is worth the effort of switching out the vines? That way you'll have passionfruit for 10-14 years if nothing else XD