Recently we decided it was time to pick the remainder of the grapefruit from our tree, and yesterday I made several batches of juice, knowing we couldn't eat all of the fruit itself before it spoiled. Actually, that's fine with me, as I love grapefruit juice. Not the juice you can buy in the grocery store—although that's tolerable if you get the "not from concentrate" kind—but real, live, non-pasteurized, fresh grapefruit juice. It's unbeatable!
If I'd known how wonderful it would be to have our own tree, I'd have planted more than one when we moved here 20 years ago. This is truly one of Florida's great treasures. And yet if you drive around and look at homes with citrus trees on the property it seems that most people don't appreciate the gift, but let the fruit fall and rot.
If I'd known how wonderful it would be to have our own tree, I'd have planted more than one when we moved here 20 years ago. This is truly one of Florida's great treasures. And yet if you drive around and look at homes with citrus trees on the property it seems that most people don't appreciate the gift, but let the fruit fall and rot.
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What you could do is note who has rotting fruit this year and then next year ask them if you can pick their fruit when it is ripe. Here's a volunteer to eat some of the bounty!!
Posted by
joyful
on Monday, March 21, 2005 at 9:25 am
On the way to church last night I was reminded of another reason for living in Florida. As I drove through the countryside, I was overwhelmed by the wonderful scent of citrus blossoms. I don't know enough to distinguish orange from grapefruit, nor tangerine from kumquat, but it was heavenly!
Posted by
SursumCorda
on Friday, March 25, 2005 at 10:02 am
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