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Hello Masto #Gardeners - so I'd welcome comments, suggestions, advice.

I'm going to put a metal-frame pergola up length of the garden and plant fruit trees along it. Something like this: agriframes.co.uk/collections/p

Mayb 1.8 wide and I think it's about 10 m long. It's a big investment and project.

I'm now wondering what to plant along it. I'd like it to be fruit. which means something over 20 trees are reasonable.

So: are multi species graft trees any good? Any advice at all here?

www.agriframes.co.ukRound Pergola

@JimmyB
I was thinking about Kiwi or Kiwi berry (the latter ones are more suitable for colder environments afaik, I once saw someone growing a stunning amount of them in northern germany)
They could really like the microclimate of the pergola I think.
Edit to say: cool Project btw! I would love to follow it along under the #Gardening

Martijn Faassen

@Hippie

@JimmyB
You can grow proper kiwis in the Netherlands at least, I have grown buckets of them. It can take years for the plants to start fruiting though.

@faassen @JimmyB@mas.t
Interesting!
Yeah, at my mother's (Germany, berlin-ish) there is a Kiwi, must be 10 years old now.
We've not yet seen it flower, sadly.
In the last two years it really started growing more branches, though!
How is your soil? I read they like acidic soil.

@faassen

I’m pretty sure others grow kiwis in #Jersey so I’m hopeful mine will get there in due course

@Hippie