How to Guzzle Your Garden by Jackie French

Author:Jackie French [Jackie French]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780730450610
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Delicious

MONSTERS

(Monstera deliciosa)

You can only grow these in warm climates, no colder than Sydney and sometimes Melbourne (they’ll grow okay just about anywhere but you may not get any fruit). Most places north of Sydney can grow them, unless you’re high up in the Tablelands and it gets too cold.

What do delicious monsters look like?

Well, you’ve probably seen them but didn’t realise they gave fruit – they’re glossy shrubs with very large leaves that have irregular-shaped, decorative holes in them. They are often grown inside in pots or against shaded walls outside.

The fruit resembles a fat spear or a cob of corn. It looks sort of scaly and then the scales start to open from the bottom after a year or so. Underneath, the fruit is creamy white and smells like a very strong fruit salad.

You can only eat the fruit from monstera deliciosa after the scales have lifted off. They don’t lift off all at once when they do start to lift off the bottom, so pick the whole fruit – with a long bit of stem – then stick it in a vase of water and cover it with Clingwrap.

When most of the scales have lifted up, scrape off the pulp with a spoon and eat it.

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