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Hardy kiwi: a potential crop for northern growers
…a longer shelf life and a higher nutritional value.” Kiwi Korners started marketing their kiwis 3 years ago under the name “Kiwi Berries.” In upscale grocery stores and natural…
Read MoreKIWIS 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…
Read MoreBook 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…
Read MorePRUNING 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…
Read MoreFRUIT TREE SURVIVAL RECORD, WINTER 1989 -1990 FAIRBANKS ALASKA
…berry, buarnut nut, butternut nut, European filbert nut, Hybrid Hazel nut and Arctic Beauty kiwi. The following showed very slight tip injury (3 inches or less) Apples: Breakey, Discovery,…
Read MoreSEED 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…
Read MoreSoil 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,…
Read MoreHood 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…
Read MoreSchlies 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…
Read MoreFrom 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…
Read MoreOrchard 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…
Read MoreA plum tree in Interior Alaska – 1988
…North Pole, one of the coldest spots in the interior. Vic also mentioned that he harvested and ate his first hardy kiwi (Kolomikta strain) on August 23rd. These were new…
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