{"id":19598,"date":"2025-10-21T21:01:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T19:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/?p=19598"},"modified":"2025-10-22T17:22:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T15:22:34","slug":"kiwai-harvest-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/kiwai-harvest-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiwai harvest 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We already showed you the Kiwai last year. This year’s harvest is spectacular enough to merit a few photos. <\/p>\n\n

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

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