The ants eat these things down to nothing but a hollow shell moments before peak ripeness. I began picking them when black with a green ring around the top and then leaving them on the counter face down to protect from flies until fully ripened. They have greasy sticky flesh under a paper thin skin. …
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Discovering Native Persimmon Trees
Since i moved onto the homestead 5 years ago there’s been a number of mystery trees that were bush sized with oak like leaves but kept their leaves even when the oaks dropped theirs. I’ve always wondered what these trees were but they were too young to produce anything so there were no clues for …