The pineapple is a native of South America and is a member of the bromeliad family. Here are some other fun facts, according to the Wikipedia Pineapple article: Hummingbirds are its natural pollinators. The fruit develops from many smaller berries fusing together. Wild pineapples will contain one seed for each flower that produced the fruit. However, most commercially [...]
My journey through the world of apples continues today with two new (to me) cultivars: The Granny Smith was super tasty, very tart, with a unique liquid juiciness to it separate from the solid fleshy texture. The skin seems a bit tougher or thicker than the Red and Golden Delicious ones I’ve tried so far, but [...]
Today’s Grown Diaries selection is a bit of a ringer. The Golden Delicious apple is one ‘cultivar’ (cultivated variety) of this ubiquitous fruit, one which is grown in the U.S. and Europe. According to this wikipedia article, it was discovered in West Virginia in 1914 and was originally called Mullin’s Yellow Seedling. Interestingly, it is not [...]
The kiwifruit (also known as the Chinese Gooseberry or, in the U.S., as just kiwi) is a tropical fruit that originated in China, appropriately enough, and was brought to New Zealand in the 20th Century. Its familiar name comes from its supposed resemblance to the cute national bird of NZ. It has hairy greenish skin, [...]
This very first Grown Diaries experiment is a type of melon, defined at Wikipedia as: ‘…the fruit and plant of a typically vine-like (climber and trailer) herb that was first cultivated more than 4000 years ago (~ 2000 BC) in Persia and Africa…. Many different melon cultivars have been produced, perhaps the most popular or [...]
