The Slice
Growing a Kiwi Plant
6/29/2022 | 1m 18sVideo has Closed Captions
In this edition of The Slice, Horticulturist Mike Heim tells us...
In this edition of The Slice, Horticulturist Mike Heim tells us what it takes to grow a Kiwi Plant in his own backyard!
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The Slice
Growing a Kiwi Plant
6/29/2022 | 1m 18sVideo has Closed Captions
In this edition of The Slice, Horticulturist Mike Heim tells us what it takes to grow a Kiwi Plant in his own backyard!
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It's taken 42 below just fine if you want to grow kiwifruit up in the north here.
So you have to grow this species.
So that one over there is the male and the male has white on the leaves.
I don't know why they do that.
That's how they are in the wild and the females don't.
And the easiest way to grow hardy Kiwis is on the edge of the woods where they can climb up the edge of the woods, you know, into the trees.
They become tall vines.
They can grow over 100 feet tall in the wild, like in Korea and the Korean people, they just wait for them to fall to the ground and then pick them off the ground.
So here's the fruits on the female, and it's going to be a pretty good crop.
And you could see lots and lots of little fruits.
They'll get as big as about a white grape in size.
And they don't have the fuzz that the species that's the commercial Kiwi has on them.
So you don't have to peel them or anything.
You just pop them in your mouth like a white grape.
They taste like the best ripe kiwi you've ever had.
They're just really, really delicious.
I put them in my cereal in the morning, so I go out before breakfast and I just pick a bunch off the ground and I put them in my cereal.
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