[NAFEX] fuyu persimmons
Lee Reich
garden at leereich.com
Sat Dec 8 10:58:41 EST 2007
Here in Zone 5, I grow delectable American persimmons. They are like
dried apricots that have been soaked in water, dipped in honey, and
then given a dash of spice. The two varieties that I recommend for
hardiness, earliness, and great flavor are Szukis and Mohler. More on
persimmons, Asian and American, in my book Uncommon Fruits fro Every
Garden.
Lee Reich, PhD
http://leereich.com/
Books by Lee Reich:
The Pruning Book
Weedless Gardening
Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden
A Northeast Gardener's Year
On Dec 8, 2007, at 7:48 AM, Alan Haigh wrote:
> Yes, a couple thousand years of selective breeding can sure make a
> difference. I'm a huge fan of the fuyu non-astringent type
> persimmon. Biting into one, firm but not quite hard, bright orange
> and sweet as a mango, I almost regret leaving California. I cut
> down my native cultivars a few years ago (Early Golden, Meader,
> Garretson) because to me they weren't paying their rent- they were
> just OK.
>
> But my single astringent kaki- now that's another story. I've
> never gotten a single fruit off that tree but every year I pop it
> out of the soil- it's roots are somewhat contained in a Whitcomb
> fabric bag- and cart it over to the root-cellar for winter storage
> with my much more generous figs. I must have first received that
> tree over a decade ago and still not a single piece of fruit- never
> had much luck with establishing persimmons in CA come to think of
> it. But I was a mere novice then, depending on instructions from
> Sunset Magazine
>
> But now I have 2 decades more experience and resources like the
> Nafex List. So I'm shouting out, have any of you successfully
> harvested Kaki's, especially the non astringents, in a zone 6A or
> colder? I'm interested in hands-on results here not researched
> info- I have all of that that I need. I know that there are some
> very cold hardy varieties and where to order them. I'm also
> willing to continue my experiments with winter protected plants.
> Have any of you out there succeeded where anticipation has been my
> only harvest?
>
> I'm in zone 6A
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