Passionfruit

[GaryD]

Hi,

Passionfruit are grown aquaponically. Ours is located near our rainwater tank and normally survives on the trickle of water that flows from the tank when we water pot plants. Just recently, it's also had huge amounts of rain to thrive on, too.

Passionfruit flowers are particularly striking in appearance......and the pulp goes well with vanilla icecream (for those who can still buy the real deal).

Gary

[beelove]

Mmmmm. I always called them lilikoi. I like the yellow ones the best but the jamaican reds taste good to.

[DaveOponic]

Damn squirrels (Tupai in Malay) are eating all my passionfruit and paw paw. I covered the paw paw with fly wire mesh and they chewed through it!!!

Recently read about anti cancer properties of papaya leaf tea. I remember in Java I used to love eating papaya leaf as a vegetable. My wife is Javanese but she doesn't know how to cook it so I tried myself, fried in wok with some garlic and olive oil.... looked delicious ... like dark green spinach. Tasted so bitter I couldn't finish a spoonful. Will have to find out how to prepare. Wife says have to use lime to take out the biterness.

[shirl]

Do they eat the green pawpaws, I pick mine quite green and leave them in a bowl on the bench , they are ripe in a week to two, and taste better this way than tree ripened ones, you get a better turn over instead of heaps of ripe ones at once you can stager them. Passionfruits I tie in plastic bags, to stop the possums, shopping bags.