600 and 4000, sigh
Oh good, you can have my share
As for harvesting, on-the-tree fruit wasn’t ripe; fresh windfall was best. And I figure it can’t hurt, when finding overripe windfall fruit, to toss it it away from its parent. An easy way to mammoth
Wait… this isn’t about politics, is it? It’s about… college football? <realizes that’s still a thing> Um, carry on, then
Advice from the interns: - there are foraging websites that list good sites - riparian areas are generally good. Around here I’m told Carderock and Great Falls. - But I wonder how much of that is that paw-paws do well in those areas, versus that’s where humans brought seeds Other advice, hive mind?
I believe federal workers are allowed to post a sign at home and put a bumper sticker on their car. Overall I think the Hatch Act has the right idea — the career civil service should be non-partisan. However, I think it needs a range of consequences, and updating for the digital age
And don’t even get me started on how the flowers of a paw-paw change sex multiple times. Science is weird
Maybe in a decade, neighbors will be able to stumble upon these green potato ghost space fruit, and have their own “paw-paw ahah” moment. And also smoothies
So, this year, the kiddo and I gathered a few pounds of paw-paws from a camping trip. We’re freezing the pulp to make smoothies and ice cream, and now I’m tossing the seeds into the raggedy woods that edges the DC Beltway. I’m trying to start a neighborhood paw-paw grove.