![]() ![]() It is not my intention to take advantage of scarcity and price gouge people that have a sincere interest in purchasing this fruit. The seeds are beautiful and make gorgeous jewelry beads. Having pawpaws in your car is a great reason to keep your windows closed.Īs a reminder, eat only the pawpaw flesh. I enjoy transporting them in a vehicle that fills with the heavy fruity scent. Many adore the fragrance of ripening pawpaws. A great cocktail is a mix of rum, ginger ale, ice, and a tablespoon of mashed pawpaw fruit. Then I fill the glass with seltzer, stir, and then enjoy the taste and aroma of flavors like coconut, mango, and banana. In a tall glass I use a fork to puree the fruit. ![]() I need only a spoonful of deseeded and skinless pawpaw flesh. Her enthusiastic dancing intro in a pawpaw grove makes me smile every time.Ī favorite recipe is pawpaw soda. Blanche is a very effective teacher with her clear and helpful advice and keen observational skills. I recommend highly the wonderful pawpaw video by Blanche Cybele Derby for the gorgeous imagery and valuable information. Integration Acres is in the business of shipping pawpaw fruit and does a great job. Some past shipments of perishable fruit have take more than two weeks.The outcome can be rotten fruit making both you and me miserable. Shipping is a nuisance in terms of packaging items carefully and making a dreaded trip to the post office or the UPS shipping pick up location. Younger trees with massive roots will survive transplanting shock much easier. Only purchase pawpaw trees with large healthy root balls. Shenandoah is a great choice in terms of ripening a month earlier than Sunflower strains, having larger fruit, fewer and smaller seeds, and several years faster maturity to production. My advice is to seek out grafted Peterson cultivars. High quality pawpaw trees are scarce and there is heightened interest in edible landscaping. I realize that my sourcing information below is outdated. in In 2005 I planted a Neal Peterson grafted cultivar Rappahannock instead of Rapanoic.įAQ: I do not sell pawpaw trees. My corrections to Sarah's article: I moved to Hardwick in 1989 and planted my first pawpaw trees from Tripple Brook Farm 1995. For my zone 5 climate at 900 feet above sea level, my peak ripening period is mid-October to early November. I am glad that Harvard student Sarah Faber interviewed me for this informative and entertaining article about pawpaws. The freeze on May 17th, 2023 killed flowers, young pawpaw fruit, and growing tips. Ask for a pawpaw and it is yours as a gift. I am gifting a few ripe pawpaws to vendors at the Hardwick Farmers Market with the hope that you will support this wonderful venue on the Hardwick Common on Sundays from 11-2 until October 29, 2023. ![]()
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