And once again, I am not going to taste a pawpaw fruit from my pawpaw trees this year.
My two pawpaw trees, this one pictured and another one on the other side of the garden, didn’t flower all that well in the spring and as I recall, there was some frost upon those flowers.
If I am remembering correctly.
Anyway, I looked occasionally throughout the summer for any fruit forming and never saw any.
So that brings us to the philosophical question… is it better to have no pawpaws at all or to have your pawpaws stolen by raccoons just as you are about to harvest them?
Those are the kinds of questions that non-gardeners don’t even think to ask themselves! But amongst gardeners, in the fall, these are the questions we think about.
At least I do.
I will ponder on the pawpaws while I watch figs slowly ripen.
Which of course, brings up another philosphical question.
Is it worth growing figs if most of them will fizzle out after a frost?
I say yes, it is.
As for the pawpaws?
I’m still thinking about that one.
I’ve heard you get better fruit set if you have 2 pawpaw trees. Ask your neighbor to plant one.
Kathy, I have two pawpaws, one on each end of the vegetable garden.
I grow mine for the zebra swallowtail caterpillars. We are at the very NW edge of their range but I have seen some of the butterflies. My tree has only been here two summers and I haven’t notice any caterpillars yet, but I live in hope!
Diane, That’s another great reason to grow this tree!