The Right Time to Harvest Medlar!
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- As the chill winter approaches and the nights grow long, the humble medlar tree is ready to get into the holiday spirit! The challenge in picking medlar is knowing when they're ready to harvest and how to ripen them. This week Laura shows you how to unlock the secrets of your medlar fruit!
I loved this video- what a fun host. Thank you!
I bought 3 trees several years ago (from Raintree!) and 2 survived and just last year i harvested the fruit for the first time and made a pie from the fruit. I found it delicious and very similar to an apple butter flavor. This is a fascinating fruit and i strongly recommend trying it if you want to add it to a home fruit garden. they are extremely easy to grow and hardy. I live in Michigan and they thrive here like crabapples or hawthorn. I've seen no pests. birds enjoy the branched nature of the tree. while deer will eat lower branch sprouts I've never seen them bother the fruit, nor did squirrels seem interested.
this is truly a great fruit for the holidays because it lends itself readily to all the common holiday spices like cinnamon, allspace, nutmeg, cloves. i think it might make a nice spiced ice cream flavor as well. The only downside is that collection of the fruit pump once it's ready is a laborious process because the amount of pulp you get from each one would only fill a ping pong ball or golf ball at most..... or less than that. however the trees make a good number of them. once you get the pulp out you must navigate and remove 5 good sized pips that are nearly the size of a finger nail. then i had to press the fruit pulp thru cheese cloth to extract fibrous material from the fruit to retain the mostly applesauce like fruit. at this point it tastes like a slightly spiced unsweetened applesauce. with cooking with sweeteners and spices and a little vanilla the flavor bursts out to a rich flavor similar to apple butter but perhaps not quite as tart. if you don't mind a little bit of labor with your harvest invest in these unique trees. They will provide you with a home grown fruit option through December and January that is unique.
I have a medlar tree and was oblivious about the fruit till i stumbled on this informative and detailed post
many thanks
Awesome video. Medlars are one of my favorite fruits. My grandad grows loads of trees for his bees. I might share his secret of how to ripen them in just 3-4 days on my channel at some point. Way better then bletting and more tastey. A tiny part of his secret is to wait until 3-4 days after the last leaf has dropped. Even better if there has been a frost. We call them the apple sauce trees hahaha
hey, love to hear his secret, am in the UK about to go medlar picking tommorrow x
Oh, please do tell! Just picking my medlars now the leaves are down.
@NATURALBEEKEEPERSCOLLECTIVE We'd love to hear how your grandad ripened his medlars in just 3-4 days. C'mon, it' sbeen 9 months, don't keep us waiting, lol
I now want to have medlars 😂
What variety are you showing there?
Will it grow in southern California ?
In partial shade, well mulched, it should grow fine.
Fascinating!! Do deer eat these?
Deer eat the leaves, but probably not the fruit. That said, deer change diet habits from experimental browsing and personal preference. So something that is "deer resistant" may one day be deer fodder.