A tree with a view

My good friend Steve gave me a couple of Paw-Paw trees (Asimina triloba) during the summer. I have kept them in the pot until now, wanting to make sure they were kept watered and healthy during the hot season.

Paw-Paw tree (Asimina triloba) with a view of a little pond

Last week I took them out to my in-law's land where there is plenty of room to plant trees and searched for a good spot. I also had some young Persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) trees to plant. My mother-in-law pointed me an area which already had a cluster of Persimmon trees growing. I don't know if the trees were planted together here many years ago (when my wife's ancestors settled the land), or if they grew here naturally. My mother-in-law had shown these to me in the past but I had never seen any fruit on them. This time around I saw a few fruits up on the tall skinny trees and I saw one smaller, squat tree that was absolutely covered in fruit.

Nearby Persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) tree loaded with fruit

We decided that we would go ahead and plant the Paw-Paw trees here with the Persimmon trees. I like that these little trees have such a nice view. By the way, I took advantage of the loaded Persimmon tree.

Persimmon fruits

Persimmon seeds removed from fruit.
There's actually more seed volume than fruit volume and it was a lot of work to separate the two.

Persimmon cookies

I brought about 30 fruits home and laboriously separated the small amount of fruit from the large amount of skin and seeds and made one batch of Persimmon cookies using the recipe I've shared before. I only got 1/3 cup of persimmon out of the fruits I collected, so I had to modify the recipe. The end result was 14 delicious cookies and 110 seeds that I can now plant. Johnny Appleseed, there's a new seed sower in town.