The house my wife and I just recently bought has several large Persimmon trees growing behind it. Some of the fruit is ripe and it is very good. Do any of you have any experiences with Persimmons? My wife says they taste like Papaya from the Philippines.
Just an update to my previous post:
Amazingly the fruit is still good even though we have not gotten a hard freeze yet. It is getting easier to tell which ones are good and which ones are bad just by looking at them. I never knew that this fruit was that good and now I know why my grandfather really liked to have a persimmon tree around. Not only that but the wild life really likes them too, possum, raccoon, deer.
__________________ The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us (his) flesh to eat?"
Jesus said to them, "Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you....For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink..."
As a result of this, many (of) his disciples returned to their former way of life and no longer accompanied him...
John, Ch. 6
Just don't try to eat an unripe one. My mom is still telling stories of a dare she took or something to that nature. She won't touch them at all anymore ripe or unripe.
Just don't try to eat an unripe one. My mom is still telling stories of a dare she took or something to that nature. She won't touch them at all anymore ripe or unripe.
Yes I had a similar experience when I was young and it took a long time with lots of practice to get over it. Once you figure out what you are doing the fruit is well worth the practice and patience. It is absolutely delicious and nothing you can get in any store I have ever been in. So now summer is getting close to the end and the muscadines are beginning to turn that means it won't be long until Persimmon season is upon us again. I will indulge in that fruit that our native brethren loved so much, with good reason. I only wish I could share what I have learned with everyone. Oh well I can only share that here and hope that some may become inspired to find some native plants that produce food that sustained this continent for many generations before farming was introduced here.
We have some passion fruit that is growing in the back as well and I am looking forward to that too.
We had two persimmon trees when I was a child, and the most delicious ones had dark orange flesh like see-through jelly when ripe. The other had cloudy whiteish flesh.
I have sometimes been tempted to buy one, but have never experienced the taste of those tree-ripened fruit.
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We had two persimmon trees when I was a child, and the most delicious ones had dark orange flesh like see-through jelly when ripe. The other had cloudy whiteish flesh.
The ones we have are like your first description, orange like see through to some degree, looks a bit like a sweet potato. We figured out how to get the pulp out and my wife made persimmon cookies. They were just wonderful. Hopefully next year will be another good crop. I have developed a strong affection for these little gems.
Well it was a lot of work but we got all the brush from around the trees. There was one particular oak that had wrapped itself around the biggest tree and was slowly chocking it to death. But all of the stuff that was strangling all of those trees has been removed, they are clear now with a minimum of damage. I fertilized them a little but not much as they are wild and probably don't need much care other than room to grow. We are looking forward to this year to see how much they improve. Maybe this fall will be a crop that we will get enough from to be able to put some up for winder.
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