FEATURE ARTICLE | LIFE IN SOLERA | NOVEMBER 2021 | 11
Fall
Fruit
Crowe
Home
By Richard Crowe
Fall fruit at the home of Richard and Beverly Crowe include
pomegranates and persimmons. This fall promises a bumper crop
of both fruit. Most of the pomegranate production goes to jelly, fruit
liqueur, and sherbet. Most of the persimmons are dried and eaten
like potato chips. Grandkids love them.
In all, the Crowes have 25 fruit trees which were planted about
18 years ago and are trained mainly as fan-hedges. Critters are a
pest with some of the trees and keep Richard on his toes. Raccoons
especially eat the persimmons - green and ripe. This year a family
of five makes the trip from the golf course about every four of five
nights. If any one of the five raccoons can be live-trapped, the rest
of the family is so distracted that they ignore the persimmons, try to
help with release, and eventually just "go home." Richard eventually
lets the trapped animals go and they go home, too. The memory of
trapping seems to keep them away for a few nights. Quips Richard,
"It's either me or them."
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