#Hardy kiwi

[allthingssoulful-garden]

Well, my hardy kiwi has finally reached the roof (almost 7 m tall). It's also starting to take over the Christmas lights I didn't bother to take down. Has yet to flower or fruit and while I am disappointed, I also love it for the way it keeps climbing everything and anything it pleases.

[lblore]

[aflockofseacows]

Round two of Kiwi Berries. They were on sale for like three of your american earth bucks, so i got another. The one I planted last year didn't survive winter. No idea why. i did the best I could when I planted this. Gave it a nice patch of new garden soil to grow in in case there was something wrong with the soil that was there. Mixed in some fertilizer and stuff too. Guides say the plant shouldn't care too much about soil quality, but I wanted to give it the best chance.

[kihaku-gato]

Despite the hella late frosts and hella early hot days in May, the variegated hardy kiwi's sweetly scented flowers somehow dodged the icy kisses and are enjoying the early June weather~

[taimio]

Tips for Successfully Cultivating Hardy Kiwi in Your Garden

Growing hardy kiwi is an exciting venture for any home gardener looking to enjoy a delicious and unique fruit. Not only are they full of essential vitamins and minerals, kiwis are also attractive, self-pollinating plants that require minimal space or effort to maintain. While growing hardy kiwi may seem like an intimidating task for someone with no gardening experience, this blog post will outline the essential steps and techniques to ensure your kiwi vines bear sweet and healthy fruits in no time!

How To Grow Hardy Kiwi In Your Garden

When it comes to growing hardy kiwi in your garden, it's important to choose a sunny spot with well-draining soil. I've found that these plants thrive in slightly acidic soil, so consider adding some peat moss or pine needles to the mix.

Plant your hardy kiwi vines in a trellis system to support their growth and encourage fruit production. Regular pruning is key to keeping these vines under control and promoting healthy yields. I've had success using organic fertilizers to provide the necessary nutrients for my kiwi plants.

Remember, hardy kiwi plants are dioecious, meaning you will need both male and female plants for fruit production. Be sure to plant at least one male for every eight female plants to ensure pollination.

Water your hardy kiwi plants regularly, especially during dry spells, to keep them happy and healthy.

Harvest your kiwi fruits when they are firm but slightly yielding to the touch. A gentle squeeze will let you know when they are ripe and ready to enjoy!

Consider using bird netting to protect your ripe kiwi fruits from hungry critters who may also have a taste for these delicious treats.

For more in-depth tips and tricks on growing hardy kiwi in your garden, check out my related article on Medium.com. Happy gardening!

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[cmonangel]

i started watching the boys and it’s so good???

[toadstoolgardens]

🌿Inviting Birds Into Your Garden🐦

Birds are essential to a healthy ecosystem, but not everyone takes kindly to them in their gardens. Birds love to eat berries, peck holes in fruits, and scratch up seedlings, but in the permaculture garden we strive to partner with nature to meet the needs of wildlife AND ourselves. Growing food for ourselves at the expense of wildlife has resulted, in part, in the current global food system that doesn't value the humans involved or the ecosystem.

"By attracting birds, small animals, and insects to our yards, we not only increase biodiversity but make our gardens more balanced, disease free, and productive as well." -Toby Hemenway, Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Small-Scale Permaculture

Benefits of a Bird-Friendly Garden

Birds are beautiful! Watching them enjoy your gardens and learning bird language is rewarding and entertaining

Birds keep insect problems in check

Birds loosen the soil as they forage and scratch

Birds provide natural fertilizer

The Combination that Works

"Creating a garden that your winged friends want to call home is easy. You'll need to provide food, water, and shelter. Any of these elements will bring birds to your garden for a visit. But providing all three will make them more inclined to take up residence." -Kris Bordessa, Attainable Sustainable: The Lost Art of Self-Reliant Living

Keep in mind that birds have different needs! Not all birds eat the same things and their nesting habits vary. So the real key is diversity! Plant a variety of plant types, textures, heights, and seasons of value.

Food

Birds have a varied diet of fruit/berries, insects, and nuts/seeds. Some have more specific diets than others. Some forage for food on the ground and some hunt above ground.

Year-Round Bird Food Sources

Evergreen trees - Provide shelter, protection, and sap for food

Flowers, tall grasses, and herbs - Provide cover for ground feeders, seeds, nectar, and insects to forage

Fruits (late spring through summer) - Blueberries, brambles like blackberries or raspberries, cherries, elderberries, mulberries, serviceberries, and wild plum. Birds LOVE mulberries especially and having them available will help deter birds from your other crops

Fruits (fall) - Aronia berries, dogwood, sea buckthorn, buffaloberry. In fall birds need to build up fat reserves to survive winter, give them a fall buffet!

Fruits (winter) - These are fruits that cling to branches over winter. Crabapple, hardy kiwi, hawthorn, highbush cranberry, medlar, sumac

Nectar-producing plants for hummingbirds - Bee balm, lupine, sage, maple trees, black locust trees

Nuts - Butternut, chestnut, hazelnut, pickory, piñon, walnut. Offer protection, good nesting sites, and insects to forage

Choose plants native to your area!

2. Water

Birds love natural moving water like streams or ponds. Replicate this with a 2 inch deep bird bath with a fountain! Place your bird bath near a shrub so they have perches and an escape route nearby.

3. Shelter & Protection

Birds need shelter from the elements and protection from predators along with their food and water sources.

Tall grass, dense shrubs, tree canopy, and thorny plants act as a save haven. Birds also nest at different heights, so offer a variety of trees and shrubs for them to settle in.

More plant ideas that provide nesting sites, shelter, and protection:

Apple

Persimmon

Rose

Serviceberry

"Without animals, nature just limps along." -Toby Hemenway

Source

[haveyouatethisfruit]

Kiwi Berry

Also known as mini kiwi or hardy kiwi

[turtlesandfrogs]

Hey, guess what I realized today! Kiwis aren't supposed to make your mouth itch!

Real ironic given that I just bought two more kiwi vines. And my hardy kiwi is just starting to come into production.

[jacklynchh]

BASICS

Full Name: Jack Harper Lynch

Age & D.O.B: 39, Jan. 4th 1985

Gender & Pronouns: Cis man, he/him

Sexual Orientation: Bisexual

Relationship Status: Single

Occupation: Gardener

Hometown: Burlington, Vermont

Time in Blue Harbor: April 2024 - Present

Neighborhood: Forest Lake

Faceclaim: Tom Hardy

PERSONALITY & MISC.

+ traits: Empathetic, loyal, passionate

- traits: Disorganised short-tempered, self-critical

Likes: Quiet places, motorcycles, plants, cold beers, cherry pies, the smell of bonfire smoke, long baths, historical novels, old movies, 80s dad rock, vera lynn, the sound of rain on glass

Dislikes: Cilantro, being the centre of attention, running, change, sales people trying talking to him at the store, getting trapped in small talk, hospitals

Hobbies: Botany, whittling, reading, camping, hiking

Habits: Smoking, picking at the hems of his sleeves when he's nervous or stressed, frowning when he's thinking, chewing his lip

Allergies: Kiwi, shellfish

BIO TD;LR:

trigger warnings: cancer, spousal death, depression

Grew up in Burlington, Vermont.

Quiet kid who struggled with social interactions.

New neighbours moved in when he was 12. Their daughter, Grace, was in his grade and the two of them became fast friends.

When Grace moved to Massachusetts for college he moved with her, though he didn't yet know what he wanted to do with his life.

Realised he was in love with Grace. Didn't tell her because he was afraid of holding her back.

In the end she was the one who made the first move, taking him by complete surprise.

Went to community college, then transferred to a four year to study botany.

He and Grace got married at 30 after a long engagement.

Started his own gardening business.

At 34, Grace was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. She passed away in 2022 after a long battle.

Fell into a depression and pretty much gave up.

Finally started to snap out of it. Moved to Blue Harbor in 2024, hoping for a fresh start.

[allthingssoulful-garden]

My kiwi is currently 4.5 m tall and keeps on climbing. Most of the vines took over the grape trellis you can peek in the top right corner, but I love the way this one looks climbing the gas pipe.

[fox-bright]

Today I alternated between staring furious and sickened at the photos and posts from/on Rafah coming in on Twitter and Tumblr, and getting up too full of anger to sit still anymore to go start seeds.

I started around four hundred lavender seeds today, and a hundred for native bluebells, and probably 50 or 75 for yellow coneflower. I took cuttings from my baby dahlia plants, both to encourage the plants to be bushy and to provide me with cuttings to strike as new plants; I took cuttings from an odd little pink-currant bush we discovered at the edge of the yard last year, and put them in soil under light, so we'll see about striking those, too. Tomorrow, if the rain stops, I'll go out and hack down a pair of very badly overgrown hardy kiwi, and maybe I'll take a hundred cuttings from those.

And the posts don't stop coming in, and they won't, and I can't do anything except start seeds for too many plants to keep.

[thedogeveryonehates]

Are older british men fuckable?

Absolutely! Off the top of my head I can think of:

Alfred Molina

Nick Frost

Greg Davies

Idris Elba

Colin Firth

(Tom Hardy is 46 - would that count as older?)

also in my research I learned alot of hot older guys i thought were british turned out to be aussie/kiwi/irish/south african 🙈

[joanofarcisdead]

scraping your teeth against the hardy skin of a soft-fleshed fruit (such as a kiwi or perhaps a mango) to devour the last of its sweetness is perhaps the closest thing you can get to both holy communion and bestial depravity

[ask-tay-relic]

THE OASIS MELONS! they looked amazing! I want one! Did it take long to come up with them? What do the melons taste like?

Thank you!! I've technically had them on my blog for about... (I went and looked at the original asks) 4 years! - I have many things that have been pre-planned since I started the blog, and things like that are one of them! ((Astheny's fav fruit/baking is Oasis Melon Tarts, and he grows them on his farm as the seeds his mother brought over from when they left his homeland!)) - Tay's favourite is Cloudberries! (which would be a post all on its own LOL)

They grow in vines on the ground, similar to a pumpkin/watermelon - but the 'vines' are underground bushels of trees! Their 'fruit' is shaped closer to the jagged hard lines of rocks - in nature with a much larger surface area and darker more 'sandy' color (same as the brine is, cause the natural green shell gets eroded away by sandy wind!) so they look kinda like big boulders if you don't know what they are! - They take a full year from start to finish to grow! (Astheny has a few different patches going);; They're super hardy so the trees he has have adapted over the years to Equestria! :D

Of course, the ones that he harvests are MUCH smaller than those found in nature - in nature they're much duller both in color and in taste, but they collect moisture in the air to give to their 'roots' much better (Astheny has to water these smaller ones) \o/ Hence being named 'Oasis Melons' if you were to find one out in the wild and dying of thirst you'd probably be set for a while (even if you couldn't take it with you!)

These ones are much brighter, and while they don't have as much pure hydration in them (compared to normal), the sugars are much more evenly distributed and are very very tasty! The 'inner' [yellow] is a bit tamer and is really good at making a tummy go 'oh! wait! I'm hungry!' when you take the first bite! The bits after that are smoother and full of nutrients that originally would have been spread evenly across the larger melons. They're a REALLY good sick food! Astheny brings some of them to the hospitals on harvest for kids and patients free of charge!

Taste wise specifically I suppose you could say it tastes kind of like... an orange-like watermelon? Tartness of vitamins, but the smooth water+sugar that makes up a watermelon! For texture, I'd say the same bite as a kiwi? Reallllllly juicy with a good squish cause of the water content!

They don't have seeds in them as their 'tree' is underground and grows through the ground by spreading more roots! Their 'flowers' [that the fruit come from] are blue+green petals for light absorption with broad heads [think sunflowers!] that curl around the fruit once it's gotten enough moisture, sun, and wind factors!

Sorry!! I can go off about things like this for ages! I have many small details!! I hope that answered your question! :D

[taimio]

Ultimate Guide to Successfully Cultivating Hardy Kiwi in Your Outdoor Space

Growing hardy kiwi is an exciting venture for any home gardener looking to enjoy a delicious and unique fruit. Not only are they full of essential vitamins and minerals, kiwis are also attractive, self-pollinating plants that require minimal space or effort to maintain. While growing hardy kiwi may seem like an intimidating task for someone with no gardening experience, this blog post will outline the essential steps and techniques to ensure your kiwi vines bear sweet and healthy fruits in no time!

How To Grow Hardy Kiwi In Your Garden

Growing hardy kiwi in your garden can be a fun and rewarding experience. I first started growing them a few years ago, and I've learned a lot along the way. Here are some tips to help you succeed:

Hardy kiwi plants are hardy indeed, but they do require a bit of care. Make sure to plant them in well-drained soil and provide plenty of sun for optimal growth.

When planting your hardy kiwi, be sure to space them about 10 feet apart to allow for adequate air circulation. Water them regularly, especially during dry spells, and mulch around the base of the plants to help retain moisture.

Prune your hardy kiwi plants in late winter or early spring to encourage new growth and fruit production.

Consider installing a trellis for your hardy kiwi to climb on, as they are vigorous growers and can easily become unruly without support.

Harvest your hardy kiwi when they are firm but give slightly to the touch. They will continue to ripen off the vine.

Overall, growing hardy kiwi in your garden can be a fun and delicious addition to your fruit-bearing plants. With a little bit of care and attention, you can enjoy fresh, homegrown kiwi for years to come.

For more in-depth information on growing hardy kiwi, check out my related article The Ultimate Guide to Growing Hardy Kiwi in Your Garden.

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