Sometime during the flight, the lady caught up with me to thank me again. She shared that she had grown up in Japan, where there was a persimmon tree in the yard of her childhood home. She now lived in Boston, where she hadn’t been able to find the fruit. The taste of this ...
One tree to take to space to plant on new worlds—and show aliens we’re worth saving? An old heirloom peach tree. The suncrest! It’s gonna take three to five years before you get a good one, so they’d have to keep me alive until they taste it. ...
Mangosteen is a fruit that grows on an evergreen tree. In Southeast Asia, the mangosteen is known as the “fruit of the gods”. The hard rind of the mangosteen is reddish-purple when ripe. Inside is a white flesh with a milk-like juice. The taste of the mangosteen to me is a sweet...
A. Stop using the dormant oil and insecticidal sprays unless there is a specific pest problem. Never spray anything when the plant is in flower. Water the tree no more than twice a week or the fertilizer will be leached through the soil before the tree can use it. Some fruit drop is n...
How to eat: Chop off the top and eat the rest. These remind me of crab apples and are in season in wintertime. When it is picked from the tree if must be eaten within one or two days. It doesnt last long. Good for: Rich in Pectin and Vitamin B & C, years ago it was a home...
The poise of a plant, the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind, the vital resources of every vegetable and animal, are also demonstrations of the self-sufficing, and therefore self-relying soul. All history from its highest to its trivial passages is the various record of this...
of the size, most of the time being smaller than a chicken egg. Even though they exist in the west, being called loquat, they have not enjoyed commercial success mainly because they bruise easily and can't be picked green. They need to turn color on the tree and be handled with care....
The fruit were hand-picked from the tree and stored in a conventional atmosphere until measured. The fruit were imaged within one week from picking from the tree. The fruit lacking visually discernible symptoms of damage were selected together with those bearing the symptoms of various damages, ...