AMGarden@aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 8/5/99 4:16:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > slfawx@ucdavis.edu writes: > > > Ours are soft, almost squishy, when they are at their sweetest. That's > > assuming the birds & squirrels haven't gotten to them first. > Same with ours. Not one was eaten by a human this year. One day they were > green, but not quite ready to pick. The next day they were all gone! > Anne in FL > zone 9b We harvested about 2 gallons but we also put a bird net over the tree as soon as the fruit showed up. George