Rooting out the passion fruit

Yesterday was a sad, sad day. Spurred on by an episode of 'Help! My house is falling down' (where the whole house was being pushed apart by tree roots--cracks so big they could fit their hands in! The horror!), I decided it was time to tackle our own rooty problem.

You see, our beloved passion fruit vine decided long ago that the space between the foundations and the pavement was much better than all the room in the planter.

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As they had taken root very close to the drains as well, there was nothing to be done but to hack the lovely vine down.

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Fortunately, at least one thin plant had obeyed the rules of domestic garden citizenship and stayed in her pot, so now she has the task of colonising the whole wall.

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And, because all that destruction was making me a bit blue, it was time to pot my lovely little strawberry plants. May you take root and be fruitful, you lovely little things!

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