Having a fruit tree in your garden helps add beauty in your landscape and provides additional food in the table. Late winter is a great time to plant fruit trees, and one of the best and most overlooked fruit tree you could grow are Persimmon trees.
There are native and oriental types of persimmon. Native persimmons are edible but not very pleasing to taste. Oriental types of persimmons on the other hand are a much larger variety. It comes in two basic forms, astringent and non-astringent form. In order to eat an astringent type of persimmon, you need to freeze it first; pick it from the tree, put it in the freezer over night and then its ready. Astringent types are delicious and are very soft, extremely sweet and flavorful. There is also the non-astringent type, this particular form does not need a freezer, and once they start to soften they are ready to eat.
Persimmon trees grow well in a fairly decent soil; they don’t like a shallow rocky soil. With a little help from the sun they will do quite well for you. One of the best things about persimmons is that they are ornamental, even after the leaves are gone; the fruit still remains on the tree. Unlike other fruit that ripens only in the spring and summer persimmons are giving us something from the orchard into the fall season. So persimmons in general are a great ornamental fruit tree that requires easy care.