I went out to my friend’s winery and picked up persimmons! I collected 3 grocery bags: 1 bag was for way to damaged fruit- to be fed to chickens as soon as I get home; bag #2 was for soft fruits- use today and bag #3 was for ripe but more firm fruit. At least that was the plan.


Each bag was about a third full but it was still too much weight for the very soft fruits.

They were much more mushed when I got home. But I was still able to use over half of them. I put them through the food mill to get the seeds and skins off. I ended up with a generous cup of persimmon mush/purée. I used it to make a Persimmon Quick Bread. It just came out of the oven!! Smells great!
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I also want to try the Persimmon-Glazed Stuffed Chicken and the Persimmon Jam.
I still have a whole cookie sheet of the best looking persimmons. Plus there were more on the tree that weren’t quite ripe yet.
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I’m also working on making pumpkin pie from the small pumpkins I grew.
Do any of you know if it’s okay to use the pumpkin if it still has a little bit of green inside near the skin?
I watered the garden. I have a lot of self seeded carrots coming up!
Also had my son clean out the 2nd chicken coop ( dirt floor) and had him pile all the dirt and droppings ( 6 months to a year’s worth

) in the garden where nothing is currently growing.