CLIMBERS FROM SEEDS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 237, 7 October 1933, Page 6 (Supplement)

CLIMBERS FROM SEEDS.

It is both interesting and profitable to raise climbing plants from seeds; especially is this so for growing up the rafters of the greenhouse. There are several sorts that grow quickly and flower early, in fact they can be treated as annuals, but grown In tho greenhouse they are practically perennial. These include Cobaeas, Mina, Lophospermum, Maurandia, Ipomeas, Tropacolums, Fceremocarpus. They are all easily raised from seed. The seedlings should be potted up as soon as large enough to handle and a tiny stake placed to each as soon as the small plant 6hows any inclination to climb. Once growing, if they arc to 'be used in the greenhouse, they can be potted into larger pots or deep hoses, but if the latter is used be assured that the drainage is perfect and do not overwatcr till the roots have a good hold of the soil. For warm sunny positions these arc also useful. Although climbers as a rule need plenty of sun, and what may be termed a warm position, they also need plenty of water, and many a good plant has been spoilt because, planted against a wall with apparently everything in its favour, it has suffered from lack, of water. Close under a wall or fence tho soil is often bone dry.