Welcome back to the poor Persimmons Almanac.

Oh my God, we're finally covering Persimmons.

It's the tomatoes of the trees.

Are you so excited?

I'm beyond excited.

We're finally going to learn how to grow a tomato.

The end of the list, TM, has come.

No, I've got to keep that Italian how-to underwraps.

Oh.

Are we ever going to get to it?

You know the answer to that, and I'm not going to tell you because that would take the joy

out of everything.

Okay, fair enough.

So tell me about these like so-called tree tomatoes.

So the tree tomatoes, as we call them, they're these big old fruit, if you're not

familiar with persimmons, that kind of look like a tomato. And they're like one old fruit if you're not familiar with persimmons that kind of

look like a tomato and they're like one of the big native crops that people

kind of stumble across when they're first getting into like the weird crops that

we talk about right yeah I mean they've definitely come up a good few times on

this podcast in the last like, what, four years?

Yeah, so for people in the north of the continent, well, northeast and then the west coast,

well, west coast will get to that, I guess. But for the north of the continent, you might not be

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