both male and female plants are required for pollination. One male will pollinate up to five females. Consistent moisture is key to good fruit production. Once fruit has set, remove whippy growth ...

A short drive from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site, novice farmer Takuya Haraguchi tends to his kiwi saplings under the ...

New Zealanders had started calling the fruit kiwis due to their resemblance to the roundish and flightless brown birds, endemic to New Zealand, of the same name. Kiwi plants (Actinidia deliciosa ...

The female plant will produce fruit. Sounds like a familiar story of the birds and the bees. The first few years, we matchmakers weren’t sure they liked each other. The first year, the two kiwi ...

Sometimes (confusingly) referred to as "Juneberry" or "serviceberry," the Saskatoon plant produces a small, sweet fruit that rivals the blueberry in taste (though with a little nuttiness ...

Eating kiwis can also increase the amount of protective plant compounds you consume ... kiwis were given the name “kiwi” by New Zealand fruit exporters after the flightless kiwi birds ...

Hale has been studying the plant for 11 years and sees an opportunity where others see danger. The fruit of the kiwi, he believes, makes it “an amazing, high-value, highly nutritional crop, that is ...

who introduced the first kiwi fruit plants to Italy in 1971 when he was looking for alternative crops suitable for rejuvenating the rural economy of the country’s poorer south. “At first ...

Biosecurity Services Group deputy secretary Rona Mellor said the disease was carried on cuttings of the plant rather than the fruit. Imports of kiwi fruit plants were suspended pending a review ...