The last few weeks has seen some of my more unusual fruit ripen on our little homestead.
The first was the musk melon, although to be fair to it I think the vine died off before it had chance to ripen fully. As such it was a little tasteless, completely edible though and probably alright in a fruit salad. I will try to grow these again though, as I planted them pretty late so they didn't really have a fair shot at producing fruit with such a short season.
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| Musk Melon |
The second was our little Cocktail Kiwi plant. This tastes amazing, just like normal kiwi fruits only with no fuzz so you just pop the grape sized fruit straight into your mouth. I recommend planting this to anyone reading this blog. The books say when it's mature it can produce a thousand fruits so great for preserving.
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| Cocktail kiwi |
Another new fruit (to me anyway) is the Chilean Guava. This is another great tasting berry. The only down side is the skin is a little tough, luckily the fruit is so nice tasting, like a spiced blueberry, that you don't notice the skin too much. I'm glad I've got six of these plants, they have put on no end of growth this year, so hopefully I'll have plenty of berries in the future.
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Has anyone else grown or eaten any interesting fruit this year?
Oh wow! I can't grow melons and I'm in the sub-tropics, well done! I love melons, kiwis and guavas! Yum!
ReplyDeleteThis was my first try - I'll try again next year. If you love kiwis I recommend this mini type, really tasty.
DeleteMelons in England, that's amazing! We did have a Passiflora that fruited some years but never ripe enough to be edible.
ReplyDeleteMy friends passion fruits ripened this year but by the time I tried them they were over!
DeleteWe grew cantelope melons this year,we didn't get our usual summer heat, so we ended up with one melon..tasted OK,but the other five were too small to call melons and the vine died before they could grow.
ReplyDeleteJane x
At least you had one good one though! Do you grow them in a greenhouse?
Deletewe didn't plant anything unusual but i will tell you - next year i am getting some of those cocktail kiwis - they look divine! good job on your unusual fruits...you can't win them all but i bet if you plant your musk melon earlier - you will get a great harvest! congrats!
ReplyDeleteyour friend,
kymber
Make sure you do, they're also called a tara vine as well I think. They taste great!
DeleteI like Muskmelons. They are pretty easy to grow here as long as you can keep the Squash bugs off of em. Hardest part I have is catching them at the exact ripeness. They seem to go from not yet to over ripe in just a few hours for some reason.
ReplyDeleteI'd never heard of them until this year but I think I'll grow them again. I'll keep in mind about the ripeness thing. Luckily we don;t have squash bugs over here yet!
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ReplyDeleteI love these where did you get the seeds from
I brought plants from Sutton seeds. They had a special offer on for six plants for £10, they were a good size as well. Next year I'll try and take some cuttings to propagate them.
DeleteNICE looking food - i am with kymber - we'll get some of those kiwis!
ReplyDeletecheers!
I might have a go at the tiny kiwi, they look fun.
ReplyDeleteBriony
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Cocktail Kiwis sound lovely, I'll definitely look out for them and give them a go.
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