Tried to Like It

[digitS']

I have a little trouble recognizing some tropical fruits but .... maybe @Niele da Kine can help me out. Or, @Pulsegleaner , he's quite cosmopolitan in his experiences.

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[Pulsegleaner]

Yes, that is an avocado (though they may have tinted the picture to make the innards yellower than is normal for one.)

 

[ducks4you]

I think I may have seen something like that back in my days at Cornell, at the Ag experiment station in Geneva. At least, I remember a dead white (more or less, more of a very very pale green that overripened to sort of pale cream) apple with sweet, sort of soft flesh (sort of like a Golden Delicious, as I recall) I did try and grow some from the seeds I got and they did come up, but then the gardeners we had at the time pulled them out trying to weed our side pots. Remember they were some odd species like Malus chinesis x chinensis ( which is not a valid taxonomic name)

McIntosh has a white flesh, but Very tart, so color isn't an indicator. I AGREE that we should have as much genetic variety as possible.

 

[digitS']

Grilled with what? Maybe I've tried the wrong one then.

Gretel is an eggplant variety found in countries outside of the US. It might qualify as different from whatever Aubergine you have had before, Marie. (A little surprised that my spell-chequer knows the British name, Aubergine.)

DW has a rather odd relationship with eggplant. It's like she can't decide. Mostly, I like a casserole and think that the oblong fruit is easier to work with. Breaded and straight from frying in the skillet is fine and the long Asian types work for that. (Little Asian types are very bitter!)

I used to think that the standard green or white varieties are never bitter. Wrong. I think stress makes even a properly mature fruit bitter.

I typed "fruit bitter" and immediately thought of "fruit butter" . I don't think that would work with eggplant . However, this talk of apples ... I need to get back to making my apple and pear butters each year. Delicious, but - one needs an appropriate baking variety.

Steve

 

[Dahlia]

I would really like to see a picture of these and the tree they grow on

Here is a pic of what they look like:

Dave Wilson Nursery

Dave Wilson Nursery

www.davewilson.com

Next time I go pick them I'll take a pic of the actual tree. It looked like an ordinary apple tree!

 

[ducks4you]

NOT good for my climate. Here's an interesting article, not really related:

What are 'ghost apples'? Record low temperatures create freaky phenomenon

These clear apples aren’t an optical illusion — here’s the real deal behind the viral photos.

www.today.com

 

[Marie2020]

Here is a pic of what they look like:

Dave Wilson Nursery

Dave Wilson Nursery

www.davewilson.com

Next time I go pick them I'll take a pic of the actual tree. It looked like an ordinary apple tree!

Thank you . How do they taste?

 

[flowerbug]

I have a little trouble recognizing some tropical fruits but .... maybe @Niele da Kine can help me out. Or, @Pulsegleaner , he's quite cosmopolitan in his experiences.

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it may be mango avocado frozen custard or something? i dunno, but from the background of the lemon in the white i'd say that is my best guess.

i pretty much try to eat everything, even if i don't like it.

 

[Dahlia]

Thank you . How do they taste?

They tasted like a Golden Delicious apple, but the texture was more firm. Very good!

 

[digitS']

And just never developed a like for kale or collards

With collards, it’s about the ham hocks and onions.

Well, I'm having collards again with a cut-up hot dog. They're good!

Zeedman, I'm wondering if you can get a plant thru winter. This is the 2nd March that we have had over-wintered collards. What a different (better) ,,version of the veggie!

I didn't know that it was possible and don't know if they could survive a normal winter. My Portuguese kale can't make it through even this mild winter. Surprised to see my first try with Italian kale, it had about a 50% fatality level. (May try to keep the Siberian variety thru next winter. Shucks, if the name means anything ... No aphids to bother it in January! )

I might be willing to have collards each year in the garden only for March harvest.

Steve