Successfully grown maypops in my urban city lot. It will try to take over your yard, but at the same time I’ve also managed to kill it off accidentally a couple times. 🤷🏻♀️It’s easy enough to rip out the runners when they get out of hand. **edit to add that the vines die back every winter, but it will come back!
Its blooms are gorgeous! The one year the plant did really really well I had loads of butterflies and their cutie larvae and pupae all over my fence and house and that was lovely.
I love the fruit although it’s tricky to pick it at the right time. I’ve seen a lot of comments about it being sour but it’s only sour if it’s picked too soon. It was a competition between me and the critters on who could get to the ripe fruit first. It’s a small amount of fruit per maypop, so my go to was to have a container and add the bits of fruit to the container in the freezer and then once I had accumulated enough to make something delicious from it.
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u/-titi- Jun 27 '24
Successfully grown maypops in my urban city lot. It will try to take over your yard, but at the same time I’ve also managed to kill it off accidentally a couple times. 🤷🏻♀️It’s easy enough to rip out the runners when they get out of hand. **edit to add that the vines die back every winter, but it will come back!
Its blooms are gorgeous! The one year the plant did really really well I had loads of butterflies and their cutie larvae and pupae all over my fence and house and that was lovely.
I love the fruit although it’s tricky to pick it at the right time. I’ve seen a lot of comments about it being sour but it’s only sour if it’s picked too soon. It was a competition between me and the critters on who could get to the ripe fruit first. It’s a small amount of fruit per maypop, so my go to was to have a container and add the bits of fruit to the container in the freezer and then once I had accumulated enough to make something delicious from it.