C36—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 1,1980
Consider small fruits for garden
NEWARK, Del. Home
gardeners who’ve had
success with vegetables and
who have the space should
consider growing some fruit,
too, says University of
Delaware extension hor
ticulturist Dr. Charles
Dunham.
Fruits like strawberries,
raspberries, blueberries and
grapes are especially suited
for the small home garden.
Plant raspberries,
blueberries and grapes in a
permanent location where
they’ll get full sun. The
grapes will need a trellis for
support. It’s also advisable
to provide support for
raspberries.
All three of these fruits can
be used to create a hedge or
landscape boundary in the
yard. They also do well along
one side of the vegetable
garden. Blueberries are by
far the most attractive as a
hedge. Incidentially, they
need a soil acidified by the
incorporation of peat moss
at planting and should be
continuously mulched.
Plant grapes 8-10 feet
apart. Allow 5 feet between
blueberry plants and 2-3 feet
between raspberries.
Strawberry plants are less
permanent than these other
small fruits. It’s best to keep
beds for 2-3 years and then
renew your stock and
relocate the bed. This helps
prevent disease problems.
Set strawberries 12 inches
apart in rows 24 inches
apart.
Don’t expect to harvest
any fruit from any of these
crops the first season.
Strawberries and rasp
berries will bear the second
year after planting. Grapes
take 2-3 years and
blueberries 3-4 years to
mature enough for fruit
production.
Also be prepared to apply
chemical sprays on all these
plants if you’re after top
quality fruit. Grapes will
require the most spraying,
blueberries the least.
Anyone growing fruit
should send for the Delaware
Cooperative Extension
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Service’s bulletin on
“Sprays for Home Fruit
Plantings.” This is available
free from county extension
offices in Newark, Dover or
Georgetown.
Grapes, raspberries, and
blueberries also require
annual pruning, notes
Dunham. Although the
procedure is easily ex
plained, it’s best learned by
practice.
He suggests you ask your
USDA to assist
Mexico with corn ,
sorghum sales
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
The Government of Mexico
Wednesday invited suppliers
to bid for the sale of up to
500,000 metric tons of U.S.
com and up to 500,000 metric
tons of U.S. sorghum and/or
com for delivery to Mexico
during the first half of 1980.
Tom Hughes, ad
ministrator of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture’s
Foreign Agricultural Ser
vice, said bids are to cover
com and sorghum to be
delivered beginning in mid-
February with shipments to
be completed at the end of
June.
“This purchase will be the
first of the 1.7 million metric
tons of com and 1.0 million
tons of sorghum included in
the mid-January agreement
between the two countries,”
said Hughes.
Agreements have been
signed with three U.S. rail
companies and the National
county agent for extension
bulletin No. 19 7, “Pruning in
the Home Garden.” This
gives the basics on pruning
fnut-bearing plants.
Plants for small fruits are
best purchased by mail.
There are several good fruit
nurseries located on the
Delmarva peninsula and
their catalogues are
available free on request.
In selecting varieties, it’s
Railways of Mexico to ship
sizable portions of the com
and sorghum, using special
unit trains, he said. The
balance will move by ocean
freight from the Gulf ports.
The USDA, through its
Office of Transportation,
will cooperate with Mexico
m helpmg to coordinate the
transportation logistics
between the two countries.
These arrangements are
m the context of the January
16 agreement between the
two countries.
Inquiries should be
directed to Alfredo Gutierrez
Kirchner, Trade Office,
Embassy of Mexico, 1101
15th street, NW, Suite 507,
Washington, D.C., 20005,
telephone 202/785-3214, or
Glen R. Samson, deputy
director for marketing,
Gram and Food Division of
the Foreign Agricultural
Service, USDA, telephone,
202/447-4900.
usually best to stick to the
standard ones that have
proven satisfactory over a
period of tune, advises the
horticulturist. When you
become more
knowledgeable you may
wish to experiment with
other kinds.
Choose varieties that are
disease resistant where
possible. This applies
especially to strawberries.
Everbearing raspberries
that produce two crops a
year are very satisfactory in
Delaware. Just be sure to
pick one, like Indian Sum
mer, that produces an early
second crop. Concord is still
the standard blue grape for
this area; Niagara is the
standard white. Blueberries
need more than one variety
for pollination.
It’s well to get your orders
in early. It’s also important
that you request delivery for
an early April planting. This
allows plants to become well
established in your garden
before hot weather arrives.
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