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City Chick
True Blue Farmgirl
1402 Posts
Deb
Chattanooga
TN
USA
1402 Posts |
 Posted - Aug 29 2012 : 04:11:19 AM
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Has anyone ever done this? I had no idea that they were edible. I just read this:
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Plant female ginkgos and harvest their fruits! The ginkgo nut is edible: “both a prized delicacy and an invaluable food for long life…throughout Asia” according to the New England Ecology Garden. The nuts, roasted, “make a tasty snack,” according to Flordata.com and Lucy at the Nourish Me blog offers a ginkgo nut custards recipe. Note: some people are sensitive to the pulp; also, the extract can be toxic.
there is a whole line of trees down a busy street near me. I've seen women harvesting in the fall - off the ground. Not directly picking off the trees. I do know that the fruit stinks bad when it starts to rot. I'd like to learn more about the nuts. There's a house on the way to school that has a couple of trees in the parkway. I could always ask to harvest those. They just rot on the sidewalk. 
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Harvesting ginkgo fruit or nuts?
