We have the start of leaves turning brown/red/gold/orange and with it rain, wind - the usual cooler temperatures. It's also the start of Feijoa and Kiwifruit season.
Kiwifruit is grown throughout the Waikato/Tauranga areas of NZ. It is a major export here and is the 3rd largest producing country other than Italy and China. I don't care for it much, we have 2 types, golden and green - I much prefer gold.
I liked the gold too but we don't get them here. The kiwi fruit we get are often greek, hard as rocks and take ages to ripen. K uses them to tenderise meat
ReplyDeleteI like the contrast in leaves in that first shot.
ReplyDeleteI eat almost anything (bar certain animal products) but I could never develop a taste for feijoas. That was a shame given that we had at least half a dozen feijoa trees in the orchard.
ReplyDeleteI love the gold ones, too!
ReplyDeleteoh its nice to know when kiwis are in season...
ReplyDeleteWonderful autumn photos and the information that its kiwi season means we may get some here too, in Delhi.
ReplyDeleteI've never seen a kiwi tree in person!
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I might have eaten one of them :) Nice to see how they grow :)
ReplyDeleteI can never make up my mind about Kiwifruit. It's good in a fruit salad. Is it a hybrid of some kind?
ReplyDeleteA Kiwi who doesn't like kiwi fruit? Surely a contradiction in terms. True, they are pretty much tasteless when unripe, and there's a fine line between ripe and overripe, but I love them anyway!
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I plan to see some of these ripe vines as I travel through the area in the coming week. I prefer the green and my kids prefer the gold. Many years ago,I went to a pick your own orchard. I came away with buckets of the fruit.
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