HARDY PLANTS

Kiwai harvest 2025

We already showed you the Kiwai last year.
This year’s harvest is spectacular enough to merit a few photos.

We pruned these Kiwai, Issai variety, for the first time this winter, after letting them grow freely for years.
A fairly severe pruning, shortening and untying all tangled branches.
We also consolidated the pergola, which was beginning to give way.
The result is a ceiling scalloped with clusters of fruit.
All the branches of the two female trees are filled, on both sides, sun or shade, and even at the top.
We pick kiwai while they’re still hard, then let them ripen gradually in the cold on a balcony, or ripen faster indoors.
The crates fill up quickly, especially at the beginning when the easiest ones are picked.
Reaching the top of the pergola is more complicated.
In an hour with two people, the wheelbarrow is filled with around 15 kilos of kiwai.
A few days later we filled a second one, this time in two hours.
What to do with such a harvest?
The best thing is to distribute it as widely as possible.
Here are our kiwai in the weekly baskets of the Seminterra Farmers’ Cooperative, distributed locally to 150 households from Bellinzona to Lugano.

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