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Gardening anyone?

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Gardening anyone?

I’m about hr drive from Melbourne in 2bedroom unit in lifestyle village with small back yard where climbing plants were already planted against north facing back fence on wire trellis when I moved in. 2plants are star jasmine and quite small in height. App on my phone today said the other 3plants are potato vine … I’ve never heard of these before.

In approx 2.5 months these 3 vines have outgrown the height of the fence and constantly producing new stems which, unsuccessfully, I’ve been trying to thread through the wire trellis as far down toward the ground as I can.

anyone have any knowledge about these plants? Is it ok if I chop the vine back to same height as the star jasmine which is just below my knee height. With plans to have cat enclosure installed in few months not far from one vine, am I best to get rid of that plant completely?

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Re: Gardening anyone?

Garden, I am happy to report, is progressing nicely thanks to my niece and her husband who sourced both old sleepers and besser blocks and replaced my rusted pot stands with pot stands created from these materials that I must say look really good, take up less space and fit more pots on them! Love it! Front and back of unit now- pots neatly stored on interesting old sleepers! I’ll move them top shelf to bottom as they indicate by growth whether they like their position or not! Loved having help but my goodness, I’ll be days cleaning mess because the wind picked up every little bit and blew it everywhere! Does gratitude cover complaints?

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