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Help - Unidentified plant in Veggie Garden

chrisandsiobhanmcchrisandsiobhanmc Posts: 4
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Can anyone identify this? It’s been seeded by a bird we think


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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    It looks very much like a kiwi fruit vine ... is it attempting to twine around anything! 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • chrisandsiobhanmcchrisandsiobhanmc Posts: 4
    Not yet it is simply growing upwards -hasn’t tried to climb the bird bath. Approx 3ft now - perhaps a stake may be needed
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    If it's a kiwi vine it's going to need more than a stake.   We have inherited one we're training on wires along a barn wall and it's got several stems now at least 30' long tho it could be kept shorter if we had less wall.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    Definitely kiwi vine.  I grew several from the tiny black seeds of one from a supermarket and they look identical to yours.  As said above, they grow fast and large.  None of mine ever flowered/fruited and I eventually had to dig most of them out.  Most came back from bits of root cut a foot below ground..
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Most kiwi vines are either male or female and you need one of each 😉 and you can’t tell which is which until they flower
     ... you can buy a self fertile variety ... or you can take cuttings from established vines where the gender is known ... but don’t forget to label them !!!

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • chrisandsiobhanmcchrisandsiobhanmc Posts: 4
    Thanks guys! Must have been a big bird to have enable this!!!!!
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Ever eaten a kiwi fruit?  The seeds are small.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • chrisandsiobhanmcchrisandsiobhanmc Posts: 4
    Well it had a good aim. 
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