Re: This months' National Gardening
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: This months' National Gardening
- From: m* l*
- Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 08:12:47 -0700
At 09:26 PM 1/18/99 -0800, you wrote:
>A bit off topic, but take a look at the February issue of National
>Gardening Magazine, I've got an article in it on growing hardy kiwis, and
>there's a great photo of my little boy with a big basket of kiwi in his
>lap. Hardy kiwi are prolific vines that are hardy down to about 25 f so
>you should be able to grow them no matter where you live, either in a
>greenhouse or outside. The fruit are smaller than fuzzy kiwi and have no
>fuzz, so you can pop them in your mouth without peeling. They're sweeter
>than fuzzy kiwi, too.
>
>Nan
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>Nan Sterman
>San Diego County California
>Sunset zone 24, USDA hardiness zone 10b or 11
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I think some of the hardy kiwis are hardy down to minus 25 or so,
BUT...hardiness refers to whether or not the vines will survive. It does
not refer to whether or not you will get fruit. Nan, you live in San Diego
county, so you wouldn't know that kiwi flowers, gets zapped by frost, and
the fruit never appears. I killed off my "hardy" kiwis out of disgust.
It's difficult enough to get an apricot crop in southwest Idaho (zones 5 or
6 usually), without being annually disappointed that that vine you
hand-carried water to for much of the winter is going to be a vine barren
of fruit. Margaret L, who will read your article, and hope you pointed
this out to readers.
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