Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat

Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Minty on November 25, 2008, 09:24

Title: Kiwi
Post by: Minty on November 25, 2008, 09:24

I put a Kiwi plant in the yard in the summer and it's grown pretty well.It's now shed all it's leaf's and I just wondered if it needs pruning or anything?

Iv' tried searching but cant seem to find much out about these plants so wondered if anyone has any experience of them?

Title: Kiwi
Post by: Kiwi on November 25, 2008, 10:31

I live in an area of NZ that grows bazillions of kiwis - they tend to grow them a bit like grapes - in long rows with wires on either side,  the trees run down the middle and the branches are  heavily pruned so that they hang over the wires in an arch - does that make sense? There is certainly a lot of pruning goes on.


i found this

http://www.homeorchardsociety.org/article/22/

Title: Kiwi
Post by: Minty on November 25, 2008, 15:13

Thanks Kiwi......that link has everything I wanted to know.Cheers :D