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Farm Tasks | Food | Gardening
Persimmon Pulp
Now that the frost has sweetened the persimmons and seeds have been cut for winter forecasting, it is time to make pulp. Pulping is a problem. Wild persimmons are small and full of seeds. I have tried several methods none of which are satisfactory. The Juice Mate clogs, a colander smears the pulp around inside…
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Persimmon Seeds and Wooly Worms
Somewhere in history someone came up with the idea that the color of wooly worms in the fall indicates the type of winter that will follow. The darker the coat the colder the winter. A striped coat means a varied winter. Lighter colors mean snow. And who started this tradition of cutting persimmon seeds to…
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