{"id":85,"date":"2007-04-10T23:05:29","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T11:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/?p=85"},"modified":"2007-04-10T23:05:29","modified_gmt":"2007-04-10T11:05:29","slug":"pepino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"Pepino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have harvested our first <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikibooks.org\/wiki\/Cookbook:Pepino \"target=_blank\">pepinos<\/a>. There were only two of them this year, but we hope to have a better harvest next season when the plant is more mature. I started our pepino plant from seed in the spring, and have been watching the fruit ripen with great anticipation.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div style=\"border: 0px solid black; padding: 15px 15px 40px; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; width: 448px; height: 597px; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"448\" height=\"597\" style=\"border: 0px solid black\" src=\"\/images\/pepino.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<small>Pepino<\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>We think the pepino fruit look a bit like pretty yellow and purple Easter eggs, so this is surely the right season to be eating them! They are a member of the solanaceae family (a relative of tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants), with delicious flesh that tastes like something between a cucumber and a sweet melon. This refreshing taste has earned them the name &#8220;cucumber melon&#8221; or &#8220;tree melon.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Kevin and I never saw any pepinos when we were living in the US, although I&#8217;m sure they must be growing in some warmer parts of the country. This little harvest was Kevin&#8217;s first chance to taste one. It turns out that he enjoys them as much as I do, so we are planning to start more pepino seeds in the spring. Pepino plants are easy to start from seed, but are quite frost tender. I&#8217;ve planted ours in the shelter of the house, to give it the best possible chance of surviving the winter. Actually, we are working on transforming the sheltered bed next to the house into a space for frost-tender perennials: pepinos, a tamarillo, perennial chilis, and perhaps some other treats as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have harvested our first<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}