Persimmons Pecans and Paw Paw's (179)

This farmers rotation and blog title is Corn and Beans and Naples and the potential for all three of those is "good" at this juncture of time. But I think before that, during that and maybe even after all of it there will be mixed in from time to time some really fun and delicious goodness headed our way...God has been good this year as most years to Indiana...and I guess for the most part to the heartland of the nation...Was a wet spring, stayed wet and cool most of the early summer and has now turned off rather dry but coolness has prevailed for the most part...My electric bill this August was one half of last year and last year being about normal...Now this weather pattern has most likely produced a good corn crop, I walked through mine today and yes it is good, the soy bean crop is also good but the late dryness the last month has taken the top off the yeilds on beans...I am pretty sure the crop will still be fair but we have likely lost 10 bushels per acre with this late dryness which could have been much worst had we gotten heat with it...Coolness was good.

But as seen in the three pictures to the right side of story 179 here there are other exciting things grown here in Hoosierland, USA....Nothing quite like Persimmon Pudding...Now I am not sure if they are called differently but, I have enjoyed it two ways, one as a real pudding, and one baked into kind of a brownie type deal that also is excellent....both served warm and your in for a treat that is hard to beat. Comes with a price though as all good things. After the first good frost these persimmons get softer and sweeter, and kind of "mushy", before that they will make you pucker like alum for sure...But the frost kind of takes the pucker right out of them and into the colander you throw them...You know that cone shaped apparatus with holes in it...then you take that little wooden bat and around and around you go for quite some time, maybe a good time to enjoy a glass of nice wine even as you squeese the squeesens out of these now soft and goey little fruits...But soon all you have left in the colander is many seeds and some hulls and the good stuff has found its way through the many holes and fallen into a pan below...There in lies the makins for the many reciepe's you will find for Persimmon pulp on google maybe...or call your grandma maybe she has one...

Second pic is somewhat an odd crop for this far north, but Pecans can be grown here and this years crop looks interesting...The pecans are not as large as in Georgia or in your grocery store at Christmas time but the price is right and if I haul out enough for one pecan pie I will probably be happy with that, it's the novelty of it all I guess on this one...

Now last but surely not least are the Paw Paw's....Wow I have written about these baby's last year and this year they are as last, "gorgeous". And here again the first good hard frost ripens these Indiana Banana's real quickly. Last year Sweet Pea and I located a nice patch of paw paw trees in a 'woods' that will remain unnamed for sure. But this year as we hunted mushrooms there we noticed the patch drops down over a hill and is a lot larger than we originally thought it to be...So now Paw Paws are going to be something we will have fun with as we visit this area a time or two with a couple 5 gallon buckets and we bring out a lot of good eating....They are fabulous kind of a custard type inside after you pinch them in half...You develope a taste for them year after year, they just keep getting better..Also we have learned to freeze them easily by wrapping each in newspaper and dropping them into the freezer for a winter time "thaw and chaw", enjoy....

Well there you have my three P's for today, all good, all some work and all some fun....Have a great day...The grain markets surged today on early frost scares for the upper mid west the last of this month...if that comes true then maybe our first good frost will not be far behind and after that well you know what I will be doing...Persimmons, Pecans, and Paw Paw's