Stupid question (my speciality ) but can you eat gourds (Jim Jams variety)my seed packet doesn't say 'ornamental' and states harvest fruit in September but I have a nagging doubt that you can actually eat them! Go on put me out of my misery

Aaaah I get it - thank you. My only problem now is explaining what I am doing up a ladder spraying the cursed vine!!!

Thank you for all the marvellous suggestions it has cheered me up greatly.

I am sorely tempted by the round up solution - will the creeper go all brown from my side of the houses and then spread across - giving the game away and getting me in a heap of trouble?

I live in a row of three terraced cottages. Our neighbours at No. 1 have grown a virginia creeper up the front of their house, which our neighbour at No. 2 either likes or can't be bothered to keep in check, it has therefore spread over the entire surface of their house. I however, am trying to grow...