Home grown happiness!

My best friend Julie who lives in Melbourne has harvested 4kgs of persimmons. She sent me a request for what to do with them. I love eating them, but I have no idea what to do with them… does anyone have any suggestions?

When we first lived in Melbourne, we had a lemon tree at the front of our garden. When mom makes baked salmon for dinner, I would leap outside and jump up to get a lemon from the tree!

On hot days, we like to make fresh lemonade, and when guests are coming for dinner, we’d make lemon scented water. A cold jug of water with slices of lemon floating around is already a relaxing sight…

In the back, from our neighbours behind, their apricot and walnut tree hung it’s fruit baring branches over to our side… it’s common knowledge that what ever is on your side of the garden, it’s yours. So… hahahhaha! Yummy.

I spent many lazy afternoons at Loretta’s Camberwell backyard. They have nothing but fig trees. They were always ripe, always sweet. I LOVE FIGS… (in Hong Kong, they sell for $75 HKD for 8!)

Rebecca & Margaret’s back yard has tons of yellow plums. When they ripen all at the same time, we ate nothing but plums all month!

Now, back in HK… fruit baring trees are rare to find in someone’s backyard. First of all not many has a backyard; but !!!! A friend’s parent’s backyard has a few Jack Fruit trees, pomegranate trees and even a Chinese peach tree… but with only one tiny yellow peach.

Terresa who lives up the road from I has a huge terrace. The terrace leans on a hill, where 4 very reliable papaya trees blossomed, and surprisingly a grape vine also grew on her pergola… she has no idea where the seeds came from, it just grew!

What do you have on your trees?