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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Opinions on Best vines, berries and climbers
« on: November 28, 2016, 09:08:00 PM »Maypops do not get large enough to cover 6' high and 300' long chain-link fence, do they...? Unless you plant 100s of them..300 feet of passionfruit could put you into the juice business.
With that much fence to cover, you might try planting some of the tropically adapted annual climbing vegetables which should actually do very well during summer and into fall.
angled luffa (Luffa acutangula)
bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria)
ivy gourd (Coccinia grandis)
winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus)
seminole pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata)
west indian gherkin (Cucumis anguria)
true yams (dioscorea alata)
yard-long beans (Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis)
hyacinth beans (Lablab purpureus)
malabar spinach (Basella alba)
jicama (Pachyrhizus erosus)
korilla (Cyclanthera pedata)
For a (semi?)perennial try chayote (Sechium edule)
This site offers seed and very good instructional videos on cultivation of many of these, she is in Florida.
https://www.asiangarden2table.com/grow-asian-vegetables/beans-peas/

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