Mama and Daddy were great believers in growing fruit trees, which, unfortunately, as a kid I didn’t like the taste of most fruit. They didn’t have much luck with the apple trees or the pear and peach trees bearing fruit. The cherry trees produced but Daddy eventually cut them down because the birds got to the fruit before us. Their persimmon and fig trees yielded tons of fruit that they gave away to friends and neighbors.
Today, I’m a big fruit eater. Still a picky one though. I prefer to buy organic fruit directly from the farmers. There’s definitely a difference in taste. These are my top 13 favorite fruits, not in any particular order.
- papaya
- mango
- pineapple
- avocado
- cherry
- strawberry
- blueberry
- tomato
- orange
- persimmon
- pear
- watermelon
- cantaloupe
You actually eat persimmons? They grow wild here - the tree in the field near the house is loaded - but those things turn your mouth inside out in a heartbeat. I've only been lucky enough to get them when they are ripe a few times. But maybe there are different kinds of persimmons?
ReplyDeleteFuyu persimmons are crisp like apples and very yummy to eat, unlike the ones you have there. I must’ve eaten those first because I was in my 30s before I gave Fuyus a try. We had such a bumper crop last year that three branches full of persimmons broke.
DeleteWe pick apples every year from abandoned orchards. Good for months of apple crisp. Blueberries and cherries are on the top of my list.
ReplyDeleteI love coming across an abandoned orchard. For a couple of years, we had a source for apricots.
DeleteI love this list! I'm a big fan of strawberries (and bananas) and I always forget tomatoes are a fruit.
ReplyDeleteStrawberries and bananas remind me of strawberry jello with embedded bananas from my childhood.
DeleteI love cantaloupe. We had a plum tree in our backyard when I was growing up. Yup, the birds got quite a bit of that fruit.
ReplyDeleteBirds and other creatures ate nearly all our apples this year. I noticed that they’ve almost cleared the persimmon branches and the fruit aren’t ripe. Poor guys, more of their ecosystems are being taken over by homes.
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