Fall is No Longer the Mirliton Harvest Season
It’s not your grandpa’s mirliton; you can’t plant a sprout in the spring and sit back and wait for a fall crop. Climate change has brought deadly heatwaves, heat domes, and more tropical storms and hurricanes over the last several summers, traumatizing vines and disrupting flowering and fruiting.
The only reliable harvest seasons are late fall and winter–when you will need to tent and heat your vines. Your vine will also have a well-developed canopy that will flower and set fruit in the cool, calm spring. We’ve already proven that a protected vine can flower and fruit throughout these cool months. It’s more work than what grandpa had to do, but he would have probably done it if he had to.
We need to stop treating mirlitons as an annual and treat them as a multi-season perennial. The summer and fall are simply preparation for a winter and spring crop. If you get lucky and we have a normal summer, then your fall crop is an unexpected bonus–lagniappe
But the winter and spring are the new main cropping windows.
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