Hello people, sorry for such the delay. I've been uber busy with school and all kinds of stuff like that. I'm messaging here today to give a somewhat update as to what has happened since my last post. Today I had one of the first carrots from the planter and although it wasn't the largest it was quite delicious. I'm hoping the other carrots were spaced far enough away so that they can gain some girth to the roots. I'll just have to learn in a few more weeks.
The tomato is finished for the year and I removed it from the large planter, which still has the carrots, basil, mint, oregano, and chives. The oregano has seemed to make a semi-groundcover around the planter which is quite cool to look at and the mint is actually somewhat staying in control. Starting this week in the Hardiness zone 7 it is going to be persimmon picking time and while I don't have a persimmon tree on my property, there are plenty of persimmon on the campus where I am going to school. Now for those of you who don't know what a persimmon tree is, it is a very cool native tree to the mid-Atlantic region, being a very large canopy forest tree. It has fleshy fruit that is quite a bizarre consistency but delicious nonetheless. The fruit looks like a strange combination between a peach and a tomato and the taste can only be described as sweet.
In addition to it being good time to pick the lovely native fruit tree persimmon, for people who have yews near them, the fruit, or aril as it is called, is ready to be eaten now. A WORD OF CAUTION. Do not eat the aril from the yew bush unless you know how to eat it. You want to eat the squishy red fleshy part AROUND the seed and be sure to SPIT THE SEED OUT if you do eat it. Please for safety purposes, do not eat the arils in front of young children or young college students (or as some of my professors say, are essentially the exact same thing), as they will think "oh I'm gonna get a free snack and end up dying of yew poison. The seeds are poison to humans and if someone injects too many, they will die. PLEASE, thus, be careful when eating them, and be mindful of who is watching.Lastly, I would like to mention that I have chosen to plant pumpkins along my deckline and the one plant that came up is doing quite well. I will get back to you on when it starts forming pumpkin.
