Story Title: Winter food
Episode 5: WA's Great Gardens
Date: 13th June 2010
Presenter: Trevor Cochrane

Winter is a time to grow lots of different fruit and veggies, whilst the obvious ones are deciduous trees like pears, apples and peaches; Trevor shows us how to plant delicious berries as well.

Tips and Facts

• Raspberries are a rich source of anti-oxidants, vitamin C and minerals.
• Being rich in antioxidants, raspberries helps neutralise free radicals in the body and can, prevent damage to cell membranes and other structures.
• Raspberries leaves can be used for medicinal purposes, including herbal teas to regulate menstrual cycles.
• The way raspberries are grown is very important to ensure continuous production.
• Raspberries are a thorny berry and growing them in a large barrel is a great way to contain them if you have a limited area.
• If you have some room in the garden plant them out in raised beds. The beds should be set up in a way where you can keep tying the canes back to guide wires. This technique allows for easy control of the runners
• Berries are cooler climate plants but they do very well in Perth.
• You can produce up to five kilograms per summer saving you a total of 200 dollars.
• Other vines you can grow this time of year are passion fruit, they are delicious and the best varieties are the grafted forms like the famous Nelly Kellie Passionfruit
• Passion fruit can be grown against a wall, a fence or even up a pergola or arbor. Make sure you use a sturdy frame for best results.
• Varieties such as, black passionfruit, panama gold passionfruit or panama red passionfruit can produce up to 400 fruits per season per plant which can be over 100 kilos.
• It's critical to add a soil that holds heaps of water and never lets the plant dry out. You can't beat coco-peat for that purpose. You buy it in blocks which quickly swell to around 60 litres per block and it makes the best potting mix for water hungry plants.

Contact

Brunnings
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
PO Box 1746
Wangara, WA 6947
Ph: 08 9302 4405
Fax: 08 9302 446

Nellie Kelly Passionfruit Nurseries
Cnr Kingston & Old Dandenong Rds
Heatherton VIC 3202
P: (03) 95517677
F: (03) 95581777
E: nelkel@nelliekelly.com.au