Hey, Look! There’s a ‘Project Paw Paw’ that wants to make Paw Paws more accessible to everyone. :)
https://www.projectpawpaw.com/about
This info was in an older ‘Mother Earth News’ magazine I was reading the other day.
Thanks, I’ve seen that page before. I have been busy putting mesh hairnets on the tiny fruit clusters. Using tiny wooden clothes pins from the dollar store. Have done about 35 clusters so far. Many more to go. The reflective streamers are working too. Birds are staying out of the trees. Fingers crossed. The trees are way too big for netting.
They can grow wild here and the state nursery used to produce and sell them but quit doing it. They seem to require a niche little growing spot as they’re an understory tree and like it moist but not wet. Also picky about soil makeup. Same as any forest food, hard to bring to easy cultivation. I wish them luck though.
Oh, sorry about all my tatsoi/bok choy excitement. It’s just something new and different than the American standard veggies, greens, spinach and huge heads of whatever the standard cabbage is. Seems easier to grow too. Tatsoi has more vitamin C than oranges and loaded with vitamin A too. Even has a lot of protein for a veggie.