From: "William C. Garthright" <billg@inebraska.com>
To: NAFEX List <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [NAFEX] Clove currants
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:43:02 -0500
My clove currants, planted a year and a half ago, produced their first
crop this year. And I've got to say that they're surprisingly... lousy!
Hey, I'm not at all a picky eater. Just the reverse, in fact. It didn't
even occur to me that there'd be a fruit I didn't like, and I kept
hearing about how tasty these were. Not only do I think they taste
terrible, so does everyone else I've talked into trying one.
So what's the deal? Does anyone here actually LIKE the taste of these
things? And if not, what do you do with them? They come ripe one at a
time, so you can't pick a bunch for cooking or anything (not that I can
imagine what you'd make with them).
I've got one seedling clove currant (because no one knew for sure if
they needed cross-pollination). That one ripened a bit before the
others, and the berries were very tiny. But though the 'Cradall' clove
currants were much bigger, they tasted just as bad. I didn't bother
netting them, so the birds got most of the berries (though that didn't
keep them from the rest of my fruit).
These are growing in a poor location for most things - on the west side
of my house, on top of a very dry slope. They are shaded until nearly
noon, then again in the early afternoon, but they get the intense heat
of the late afternoon sun. I can't complain about how they're growing,
and they seem to have no bug problems at all,... but they taste terrible.
Heck of a deal, huh?
:-)
Bill
Lincoln, NE (zone 5)
--
It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief. -
George Bernard Shaw
[NAFEX] Clove currants,
William C. Garthright, 08/08/2008