Kiwiberry
For those who come too early...new data on berry demand AFTER spring
Traditionally, soft fruit plants are delivered to sales outlets and sold off in early spring. Depending on the season, there may or may not be additional deliveries. Using Google data, we show that the demand for certain types of fruit (or the corresponding terms) is sometimes continuous throughout the year or that there is a second peak after spring when the fruit in question is ripe. But can this effect also be demonstrated in specific plant sales? Are we perhaps systematically selling many...
Read moreThe demand for kiwi plants - and the structure of the ideal assortment
How exactly should a kiwi assortment be composed? Or more importantly and more precisely: which kiwi plants are really in demand by hobby gardeners? In this article we try to answer this question more accurately based on actual consumer demand.
Read moreMini kiwis – a plant portrait
Who doesn't know the kiwi fruit from the supermarket? With its green or even yellow flesh and brown, slightly hairy skin, with its typical sour-sweet taste and exotic aroma?
But who knows the small-fruited relative of the kiwi fruit, the mini kiwi? Nurserymen and hobby gardeners, but also people interested in fruit will have heard of the mini kiwi, sometimes also called kiwi berry. But in the grocery store you will usually look in vain for them. If at all, the mini kiwi is only to be found in...
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