Persimmons suffer from a bad reputation. Most people give me a questioning look when I mention persimmons, and some shudder and pucker in that small moue which indicates they’ve sampled an unripe ...

Q: How do I know when to harvest the persimmons on my tree? They've turned orange but seem very hard. A: They should be ready now, but in order to determine the best time to harvest you'll need to ...

Persimmons are a uniquely flavored fruit that many find difficult to describe. Personally I find they have a richly sweet flavor with a faint hint of cinnamon. The fruits are a yellowish-orange to red ...

Persimmon is often treated like a difficult fruit tree, mostly because it doesn’t behave like the plants people are used to ...

Persimmons come in an astonishing number of unique varieties, ranging from yellow to nearly maroon. There are acorn-shaped persimmons, round varieties, boxy ones and some that look like apples. In ...

Persimmons are sweet and flavourful fruits that belong to the genus Diospyros. There are various varieties of persimmons, with the two main types being astringent and non-astringent. Astringent ...

Persimmons are an underrated fruit, and they grow well in Louisiana. I first tried persimmons in a course I took at LSU. Some are sour enough to make your face pucker, and some are sweet and juicy ...

Persimmons are one of the best fruit trees that can be planted in North Central Florida. Not only do the trees grow well in this climate, they also produce uniquely delicious fruit. Persimmons grown ...

Persimmons are this week’s Fresh Pick of the Week at the valley’s Certified Farmers’ Markets. The fruit of a number of species of Ebony wood trees, persimmons are native to almost every continent, but ...

“Persimmons look and taste like the fall season,” says Rachel Sullivan, the farm assistant at Frog Hollow Farm, a Brentwood, California, farm currently in the middle of its annual persimmon harvest.

True confession. Until this week, I had tasted persimmons only once, in 1984, when a colleague gave me a persimmon grown in the orchard on the former Texas Tech horticulture farm (now the 18th hole of ...