Many years ago I planted a kiwi fruit plant.
I wondered why it never fruited. But then I found out I should have bought a male plant and a female plant so they could make babies (you can get self fruiting ones now).
A few years ago I was fed up with it so tried to dig it up.
But it eluded me and crept along the undergrowth then shot up in various places between rose bushes and then up the fruit trees and then up the bamboo, and up the willow.
It grows at the speed of light. And I can walk up the path for a new tendril to catch me in the face...it is like a flipping triffid.
It has been in there about 15 or more years now and I have never had a kiwi fruit from it.
Until this year.
A wee little bee must have thought oh hey I know where I can find opposite sex pollen for this batty old lady’s kiwi plant, and came haring over with it this year.
Now there are enough developing fruits to open a fruit shop.
But now I am very seriously allergic to kiwi fruits.
Sigh...
But I do have raspberries, tiny strawberries, apples, pears, cherries, quince, elderberries and more berry stuff growing...
I think I need a cow to make all the double. cream I need to eat all these fruits. But it might be easier to get the cream from the dairy up the road. He is one of the few farmers in this country that sells unpasteurised milk and cream. It is heavenly...
This kiwi plant is going to go berserk in all this rain...
*for some reason I cannot attach the kiwi photo...trying again...
I think it worked this time!!!!
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