What a cool idea. Glad you're enjoying the experience.

I love jicama, but always forget about it when out shopping. Thanks for the reminder; I think I'll pick some up when I go shopping today. It's a nice crunchy addition to salads. Another that I enjoy is daikon radish. It also has a nice crunch, but not a strong radish flavor.

I make an Asian influenced salad that I first had at an airport in Japan. Carrots, seeded cucumber and daikon are cut into long thin strips and seasoned with a dressing of rice vinegar, sesame oil, salt, a tiny bit of sugar, red pepper flakes and toasted sesame seeds. Now I've reminded myself that it's been a while since I've made this refreshing summer treat!

Another favorite from Asia is dragon fruit. They are bright pink on the outside with white flesh and small black seeds. To me they have the taste and texture of a combination of watermelon and pear.

We've bought jicama in the past and really enjoyed it. A nice mellow flavour. I've made it in a salad julienned, with carrot and fresh pineapple.

Dawn, thanks for the explanation of dragon fruit. I've always wondered what it tasted like.

Was in a family owned Chinese restaurant, recently, and they were eating the dragon fruit. Wondered what it was.

Love Dragon fruit which tastes similar to kiwi to me.

Marilyn.... that is stunning....although I love dragon fruit to eat...you’ve given me another reason to love it! Can you give me any hints how to grow it from the seeds? Robin

It has been quite awhile ago, but I cut it open and either picked out the seeds, or picked out the surrounding pulp. I believe I started them in Miracle Grow potting mix. They germinated quickly, I do remember that, and they looked very unlike what you might think. Just two tiny leaves and a stem. The more typical looking plant part...like a little stem, for want of a better word, then grew out of the center.

I just sort of pressed them into the planting medium and watered them. They look like a typical epiphyllum, orchid cactus, but instead of having flat segments, they are more angular.

I grow dragon fruit, and for me, they bloom late September and ripen in October. Here is one cut open

I also grow cherimoya, and it also has to be hand pollinated, but I get more fruit from it. Right now I have white sapote fruit ripening, for the first time from a tree that I've had for eight years! Fortunately, I do not have to do any pollinating for this, but the fruit is good for only a couple of days. I might freeze some of them, as I expect to get quite a few this year.

Wow, Marilyn and Lars - your results from planting and growing the dragon fruit seeds are really impressive. I'm not much of a gardener (have a black thumb no matter how hard I try), but I might have to give this a go!

Marilyn..thank you. I have had luck with growing orchid cactus ... just not from seed. I can’t wait to try this. I have a night blooming cereus that my grandmother never got to bloom...I took it and reported it and it bloomed beautifully.. although that might have been the negative energy at my grandmother’s house! I’m out to buy a dragon fruit today!

Be aware that what is sold as dragon fruit can be from several different plants from the same family which explains why you see several different sizes. The plants of big one that is sold in stores can become really big. Using the seeds should give you a plant that will have the similar size fruit. You can also find plants on line or at nurseries but do some search on how to tell the segments apart as there are lots of plants that look similar but are not in the same family.