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["Hungrytown Dave" <fruitopia@firstva.com>]

I like your single pole idea.  I've seen wisteria growing similarly, and it 
was very 
attractive, almost like a bush.

My method for kiwi is far less attractive, but it leads to lots of vine and 
lots of fruit.  I 
plant them on piles of pruned fruit tree branches, fallen large tree limbs, 
and 
remnants of trees I cut for firewood.  Deer hate to step on branch piles, so 
this 
method protects vines from deer when the vines are young.   Plant the vines 
first, just 
put a pile on top of them or around them.

Small trees grow up through the piles, such as sassafras and tulip poplar, 
and the 
vines grow up the trees.  I cut the trees as needed to prevent the vines from 
getting 
too high.  

This method is very unruly, but there is little pruning required.  One vine 
can cover 
over 1,500 square feet eventually.  You can't get to all the fruit, but I 
don't need to.  
Two female fuzzies together produce about 9 bushels of reachable fruit for me 
every 
year.  Fuzzless (hardy) varieties have much more variable production for me, 
and are 
harder to see in the thicket.
~David Consolvo
Hungrytown, Virginia 




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