KIWIS IN PENNSYLVANIA

  — B. Boyer   In June, Marianne and I visited David Kuchta in Nesquehoning, PA (humblebe@Ptd.net). We talked about bees for pollination and about Kiwi varieties. David has 32…

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Book Reviews May 2000

…soil preferences, fertilization, irrigation, trellising options, thinning, harvesting, and storing kiwi. They use “fuzzy” kiwifruit studies as a basis, but do include sections on Hardy Kiwi, Kolomikta, and Silver Vine…

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PRUNING FOR FRUIT

…needs to be removed on grapes each year to optimize fruit production. KIWI Kiwi vines are often trained very much like grapes. The arms, however, are generally only replaced every…

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SEED EXCHANGE RUSSIA/ALASKA

Kiwi; and early maturing tomatoes. These hardy tomatoes are started in a Greenhouse and then transplanted to a sunny protected area of the garden to ripen. The tomatoes are full…

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Soil Facts

…fruits apples, gooseberries 5.0-6.5 apricots, grapes 6.0-7.0 cherries, plums, pears 6.0-7.5 strawberries, raspberries 5.0-7.5 blueberries 4.0 – 6.0 currants 5.5-8.0 rhubarb 5.5-7.0 Kiwi 5.5–6.0   Alaskan soils are generally acidic,…

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Hood River Tour

…project this year was a stand of Kiwi fruit – Kolomikta – next to the parking lot. He had the overhead trellising all ready, though the plants were still small…

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Schlies Orchard Report 2006

…jelly round out my fruit larder for the year. The kiwi sulked after finally being planted in the ground this year, but will hopefully spring back next year – they…

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From the Editor’s Garden

…again be loaded. My kiwi vines have settled in well and put on significant growth this year. I should have good fruit on them next year. I purchased a variety…

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Orchard Report

kiwi vines are dripping with fruit, but my new pullets have taken up roosting in the thicket, so we’ll see how many berries actually reach maturity. I do love the…

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