A reader asks for advice on storing fuzzy kiwis when outdoor temperatures are too warm for refrigeration. Another reader shares their experience with warm temperatures affecting kiwi ripening and their solution of distributing kiwis to friends and neighbors. Finally, a reader questions the classification of begonias as tubers, as they are commonly understood to develop from corms.
Dear Helen: This is the first year for my fuzzy kiwis to produce a sizeable harvest and I have a question about their storage and ripening. I do recall from reading your columns that the kiwis need to be stored in refrigeration temperatures and I do have a protected outdoor storage structure, but temperatures have been warm this fall, at least a few degrees above fridge temperatures. I don’t have room in my fridge for them. What to do? N.N.
I’m in a similar situation, with an unheated storage room attached to the house at the end of the carport. Ideally, storage temperatures for unripened kiwis should be barely above freezing, which my unheated store room used to come closer to after the late autumn harvesting. Not anymore. Like last year, daytime high temperatures so far this year have been warm for the season, around 7 or 8 C. As a result I’m finding the kiwis that I bring in to the kitchen and place in a slightly ventilated plastic bag with an apple are ripening very fast — as quickly as in four days. I prefer to peel and eat them while the fruit is still very firm, but no longer completely hard. Having very limited storage space that remains adequately cold for long term storage is an issue. For this reason I’ve been giving shallow flats of the fruit away to families who will enjoy them while they are still fairly freshly harvested. Neighbours, friends, and people who have extended me various forms of help and kindness all are offered kiwis to enjoy. There will still be plenty left for my own use. Dear Helen: In a recent column you described different kinds of root structures, such as bulbs, corms, tubers and rhizomes. You list begonias among the tubers. I always understood that begonias, at least the large-flowered ones we grow in summer hanging baskets, develop from corms. K.R. I have noticed some online sources do refer to begonia “corms,” but that is not correc
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