Product Description
What's not to like about easy-to-grow Kiwi fruits, which can crop reliably outside here in the UK?
The variety 'Jenny' is tried and tested as one of the best performers in UK gardens and is 100% self-fertile. This gets round the problem most people have had, as you typically needed a male and female variety to get crops, and then some bees to pollinate too. That, however, is now in the past!
Grow against a sunny, south facing wall, 'Jenny' is quite vigorous, and can reach 3-4M in 5 years if not trained or pruned. The good news is it responds well to trimming and shaping, and should produce fruit in 2-3 years reliably, and heavy crops beyond that, surprisingly easily.
Juicy, fresh and rich in Vitamin C, the fruits can be picked in Autumn, and are delicious eaten fresh - quite different to supermarket fruits chilled and transported across the globe.
Supplied as an established Kiwi plant in 2L pot, approx. 30-40cm tall, plant out all year.
What Is Supplied
Item 340028 supplied as:
Supplied as an established Kiwi plant in 2L pot, approx. 30-40cm tall, plant out all year.
Plant Information
Top Tips
Kiwi fruit should be picked before the first frosts and left in a bowl with ripe bananas, to encourage ripening which may take several weeks.
Care Guide
Planting Advice:
- Plant in a sheltered sunny position, preferably against a south or west-facing wall, in organic rich, fertile, well-drained soil - this will promote the best fruit formation.
- Protect new shoots from frost with horticultural fleece to prevent frost damage.
Kiwis need a lot of room, so plant 3-4.5m (10-15ft) apart, while the soil is still warm.
- Before planting soak container-grown plants thoroughly and allow to drain.
Dig a planting hole 3 x wider than the roots of the shrub you're planting and mix some well-rotted compost or manure with the soil from the hole and use this to re-fill one the shrub is in place.
- Remove the plant from its pot and tease out a few of the roots
- Add Mycorrhizal fungi to the roots when planting to help plants establish quicker.
Place your kiwi in the hole at the same level at the pot
Refill the hole with the earth removed (backfilling) and firm in the soil with your heel, avoiding the root ball
Water well and mulch around the base of the plant with a collar, compost, gravel, bark etc
If you’re planting into pots, place some old rocks, stones or gravel in the bottom of the pot for drainage and ballast.
- Use the best compost you can buy and some sand or grit for drainage.
Aftercare Advice:
- After planting, mulch around the base of the plant with well-rotted manure in late winter, avoid contact with the stem as this may cause rotting.
- Apply a general-purpose fertiliser such as Fish Blood & Bone when growth starts in the spring.
Pruning Advice:
- For best results, tie the vine to a post and keep it growing straight upward. Don’t allow it to twirl around the post. Remove all side branches until the vine reaches the top of the post then cut out the top of the vine so that it's just below the top of the post. This will encourage side shoots which can be then be tied on to horizontal wires.
- Prune out any dead, damaged or misplaces branches in winter.
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Fully Grown Plant dimensions (approx)
300cm
300cm
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The plants were well packaged and arrived in good condition. They were also a great price. Unfortunately, the delivery company used to ship the plants were useless. The online tracking wasn't up to date and I waited in for 2 and a half days before the delivery finally arrived. The first day the driver couldn't find our property (despite it being a residential street which the postcode leads directly to) and no attempt was made to call for directions. The second day the van broke down but again there was no contact to let us know. The plants finally arrived on my third day of waiting in.
Not good enough Yodel.
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Happy with this purchase.
Review Submitted: 22/04/2022 - 13:08:31
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the 5 stars go to their customer service for informing me that the kiwi fruit tree was not upto their standard and would not be sent out and that i would be refunded
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can`t really rate the tree as it was not sent out as stated as not upto standard and thanks to customer service for letting me know
Review Submitted: 27/11/2019 - 13:06:54
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Delivery took 10 days
Review Submitted: 19/06/2018 - 14:44:02
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Excellent service.
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Good healthy plant. Can't wait for the fruit to grow.
Review Submitted: 18/06/2018 - 06:42:08
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Every thing has been of top quality to date
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Very small almost dead, don?t know if it will survive
Review Submitted: 09/03/2018 - 21:42:21
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rang over box split open and condition of plants staff very help full made note and if problems to give ring
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arrived in broken box, and some of the plants stems broken , have planted just need to see how they survive
Review Submitted: 21/07/2017 - 12:40:38
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Well pleased with products and keenly priced
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Well packaged with a good delivery time
Review Submitted: 22/05/2017 - 05:51:06
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Immediately agreed to replace item
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Terrible, came with 50% brown dried leaves and the rest yellowing, has not survived
Review Submitted: 17/05/2017 - 08:45:16
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Quick deliver. Almost return of post. Plants well packed.
Review Submitted: 20/02/2017 - 08:11:32
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Reasonably priced plants packed well & delivered quickly
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Healthy looking plant
Review Submitted: 26/08/2016 - 13:19:41