We do not ship tree protection items and supplies on Saturday or Sunday. Tree Protection and Supplies: Items are shipped via UPS the first shipping day following the day the order is received. You may select a shipping date up to six weeks from purchase date at check out. In order to ensure our live plants and seedlings are delivered in the best shape we do not ship on Friday Saturday or Sunday. Live plants and seedlings: Orders without a specific ship date selected at check out are shipped via UPS the first shipping day following the day the order is received. Also believed to contain anti-carcinogens Produces fruit similar to banana with a good taste. Likes deep, moist, soils usually along streams or rivers. Don’t forget to consider prevailing winds when choosing a site.įruit eaten by deer, raccoon, fox, opossum, and most songbirds. A good spacing would be ten foot by at least ten foot. Cedars or other fruit trees make an excellent windbreak, just be sure and plant your paw paws at least twenty feet from your break to deter its roots from robbing the soil moisture. A good starting point would be about twenty feet away from a treeline in a bottom field. Paw paws prefer your best soil with good drainage and protection from wind, so try and be picky when choosing a site for planting. Many of our fruits are quite large (up to 4 or 5” in length) and contain fewer seeds, which is a good thing considering paw paws seem to inherit traits from their parents more often than not. We collect our fruit from wild and cultivated sources every year in late August, just before they ripen and fall to the ground when hungry deer, coons, possums, hogs, and you-name-it are waiting to steal our crop. It is also being studied intensively for its already proven anti-cancer and insecticidal qualities. Pawpaw is extremely high in Calcium, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium, amino acids, and several vitamins. Even if these fruits didn’t taste like a dream, the health benefits far outweigh the flavor experience. The fruit flavor comes as a surprise considering the leaves smell of bell pepper or diesel fuel when crushed, which keeps the foliage relatively pest free. Let’s start with the flavor of its fruit, which can be described as an intense banana pudding with a hint of mango flavor. Although not very well known today, except among a growing group of followers, the pawpaw deserves more respect than it gets. Our very own Native Americans knew about the various attributes of the tropical looking pawpaw, and most likely increased their distribution to what it is today. * we grow these in larger "treepots" to facilitate their need for a larger root system*
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