PASSION FRUIT. LOGANBERRIES, ETC.

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 57, 4 September 1926, Page 26

PASSION FRUIT. LOGANBERRIES, ETC.

September is the best month to plant passion fruit vines. .They require as sheltered and warm a position as possible, and good, well-drained and manured soil. Established plants of passion fruit should receive liberal treatment in the matter of manure. A good dressing of stable manure spread round the plants and dug m being the most profitable means of manuring. Laterals (side growths) may be spurred back to two or three buds—these are the parts where the fruit is borne. Bunh fruits—gooseberries, currants, raspberries, etc.—should have the ground loosened and weeds suppressed. Raspberries and black currants will' benefit by a good mulch of stable manure. The vines of loganberries should be kept tied into their supports. Established beds of strawberries may receive a good dressing of stable manure, , which should be dug in between the '•rows, care being taken to injure the roots as little as possible. Given proper cultivation and liberal treatment very few fruits Rive as good returns as strawberries Protection from birds is necessary, for 'small plantations wire-netting frames being the most satisfactory. The frames may be made of 4 x 1 in lengths and •widths convenient for covering the rows. Theße frames should be made in sizes •which are not too heavy and cumbersome to handle conveniently.