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Our new crop of fruit trees are available!
For all our local customers
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Pawpaw
Another rare find. The Pawpaw is one of this country's most over-looked fruits. Native to most parts of the United States, the Pawpaw thrives with little or no care. A deciduous, small, pyramidal tree, with 4 to 5 inch long fruit that has custard smooth, white to apricot flesh. Delicious banana-like flavor is awesome. The fruit is eaten fresh or used in salads and for making custard pies and preserves. Two trees are needed for cross-pollination.
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Pawpaw Particulars
Picking Your PLACE Pawpaw trees are an understory tree in nature. When choosing a site to plant your tree, choose a slightly shady spot or plan to artificially shade your tree for the first 2 years. They prefer a moist, well-drained soil with good organic content. If you don't have this, amend the planting area well with peat or leaf mold and mulch heavily. They'll be quite content. Pawpaws prefer well-drained soils and part to full sun.
Pawpaw Pollination Now these are truly strange creatures. Their
favorite pollinator is the green bottle fly. Some growers
have gone to great lengths to attract this shy
creature. One noteworthy method is to place rotten
hamburger in buckets around the tree for a few weeks
before bloom to build up the fly colony. Whew! Must be
a better way! (And remember, you need two pawpaw trees to tango). |
Pawpaw Varieties (Asimina triloba)
MANGO NEW for 2010! Selected from the wild in Tifton, GA, by
Major C. Collins in 1970. Mango is the most vigorous growing of the pawpaw varieties and produces a good crop of
large yellow fleshed fruit. Grafted. Zones 5-9. $45.99 3 gal (3-5ft).
SEEDLING We gather the seed for this variety from
the North Florida area. It reliably fruits in Zones 8B and 9.
Fruit varies in size from 3" to 5", with a pale yellow flesh.
Excellent flavor. Ripens late August-September. Zones 7-9.
$39.99 3 gal (3-5ft).
Just the Facts
Not sure what to do with pawpaws or how to grow them right? DON'T PANIC! Push the panic button and we will give you "Just the Facts" you need to successfully grow them.
Are we out of what you are looking for? Email us at Justfruits@hotmail.com and we'll put you on the "Call When Available" list. We will call you!
Please come to see us if you can (Wednesday to Sunday, 9:05-5:08). We are located 19 miles south of Tallahassee, just off US Highway 98, 1 mile east of the intersection with US Highway 319 (South of Crawfordville center and actually in the village of Medart). If you need further directions, feel free to call us at 1-850-926-5644 or enter 30 St. Frances St. Crawfordville FL 32327 (or Just Fruits Nursery) into Google Maps ( CLICK HERE).