General @ Saturday August 02, 2008 04:03 pm by WunderKraut
I DO NOT live in Florida…yet for some reason the man who previously owned my house (30 years) loved palm trees.
I have 4 large palm trees in my front yard. I didn’t mind them when we moved in…that’s because it was March.
The above picture is of one of my 4 trees.
Looks pretty enough. You may be asking, “Gee WunderKraut, what do you have against pretty trees? Get up on the wrong side of the bed today? Jerk.”
Well, hold on a second. I have my reasons.
See, these particular palm trees produce an orange fruit as seen below:
Again, you may be wondering what the big deal is. Let me tell you a thing or two about this fruit. They grow in bunches as shown, with each tree producing around 3 to 5 bunches ever summer.
Know what happens when the fruit gets ripe?
It falls to the ground.
Know what happens to ripe fruit sitting on the ground in South Georgia?
It rots.
Well, actually, I think it ferments and then it rots.
You end up with piles of rotten mash around the trees. As seen here:
Nice no?
The double plus to this story is that these steaming piles of rotten mash smell heavenly on a hot day, when I’m mowing the lawn. Running over the mash just spreads the smell and pulp all over my yard.
The smell. My God it’s terrible. Not to mention the millions of little gnats that hover over the piles. Adding to the millions of normal gnats, gnawing on my ears.
The yard looks good though.
One Response to “I Hate The Smell Of Rotting Fruit In The Summer…”
I was just talking about your palm trees yesterday to Amy Miller and how odd it was that in the middle of Albany you guys have so many short but BIG trees. Anyway, she said you can eat the fruit…thought you might like to know and try it, it could be really good and save on groceries seeing as the price of fruit is so high…you could start your own farmers market…we are currently collecting from the pear tree here…yum yum!