Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

🍈 We Cut Open a 37 lb Jackfruit - You Won't Believe What's Inside!

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  🍈 Cutting into a 37-pound Jackedak Jackfruit with Chiane and Ashley!
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  🍈 Join us at Top Tropicals as we explore one of the largest fruits on Earth - the mighty Jackfruit. From sweet, tropical fruit to edible seeds and even a meat substitute known as the "rag" - this fruit does it all!

• ✔️Learn how to cut and clean a jackfruit
• ✔️See which parts are edible (you might be surprised!)
• ✔️Discover why it's a favorite for vegan pulled pork
• ✔️Hear our taste-test reactions: bubblegum, custard, pineapple?

• 🍈 Whether you're into exotic fruits, cooking, or growing your own tropical trees, this is one tasty experience you don’t want to miss.
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  🍈 Want to grow your own Jackfruit? We’ve got you covered

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🔥 Operation of life

"Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life." - George Bernard Shaw

🐈📸 Mr B is chilling at Top Tropicals PeopleCats.Garden. 

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🌞 The morning glory that sleeps in? Alamo Vine - the noon-blooming mystery

• 💮 Ipomoea sinuata - Alamo Vine or Woodrose isn't your average morning glory.
• 💮It's a fast-growing, very fine vine with feathery, soft-textured leaves that look like they belong in a fairytale.
• 💮 And its white pretty blooms? They're a little rebellious! Opening around noon instead of morning, then closing again before sunset.
• 💮 Perfect for trellises, fences, or even a container if you want a vine with personality. Attracts butterflies and bees.
• 💮 It's fast, it's different, and it's ready to cover a small fence or trellis.

🛒 Add this noontime bloomer to your garden

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🐈 Big energy for small spaces

"May your home always be too small to hold all your friends." - Irish blessing

🐈📸 Scooby, Timo, James Coconuts and Matilda showing off at Top Tropicals Bfarm (PeopleCats.Garden)

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Why tipping mango trees makes them fruiting machines (DIY Garden Tip)

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🌳 Want more mangoes from your backyard tree?
In this step-by-step guide, Ed from Top Tropicals in Fort Myers, Florida, shows how to tip mango trees to boost branching, improve structure, and increase fruit production. Whether you're growing Valencia Pride, Orange Sherbet, or Glen mangoes - this method works!

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  ▫️When and how to tip branches
• ▫️ What tools to use (and how to clean them)
• ▫️Real before-and-after results from trees in our Florida garden
• ▫️Tips for shaping young trees for long-term success

🛒 Get your own mango trees

🌱 More garden tips and tropical fruit care

#Food_Forest #Mango #Mango_Rainbow

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🐾 Do pet repellers work? Here is your answer.

Product marketing line:

"Keep your pets off furniture painlessly with our pet repeller mat, deterring them with sound and texture, protecting your belongings."

Right.

🐈📸 Bob, James Coconuts, Scooby and Philemon testing new TopTropicals protective gear at PeopleCats.Garden. 

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🍓Strawberry Guava for best Margaritas - the easiest fruit tree you'll ever grow!

• 🍓 If you're looking for a cold-hardy tropical fruit tree that thrives on neglect, you’ve found it: Strawberry Guava, or Cattley Guava (Psidium littorale). It's our favorite Guava at Top Tropicals!
• 🍓 This fast-growing, evergreen small tree or dense bush doesn’t mind poor soil, limestone, or salt. It’s hardy to the low 20s F, drought-tolerant once established, and can even handle short-term flooding. Great as a hedge, windbreak, or container specimen, it also adds beauty year-round with glossy green leaves, peeling reddish bark, and soft red new growth.
• 🍓 You’ll get round, tangy-sweet fruit from spring through fall - perfect for snacking, jams, or jellies, juices, and adding to all kinds of drinks, especially Margaritas and Mojitos! 🍸
• 🍓 The red and yellow types are both tasty, with the yellow often a bit larger and sweeter. The sweetest and the most flavorful Cattley Guava variety is Hawaiian Gold - Psidium littorale var. Lucidum. This one is our favorite for eating out of hand!
• 🍓 Cattley Guava is productive, low-maintenance, and ornamental - one of the easiest tropical fruit trees to grow in poor or alkaline soils.

🛒 Add a sweet guava hedge to your yard

📚 Learn more:

• ▫️Favorite Guava fruit for eating fresh
• ▫️Top 10 fast-fruiting trees: #2. Cattley and Tropical guava
• ▫️How to always have lots of Guava Juice

#Food_Forest #Guava

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🐶 Squeaky little things

Sweet Memories: our Labrador puppies - Wigglebutts - 2.5 years ago!

🐈📸 Sunshine, Draco, Lila and their brothers and sisters in December 2022 at Top Tropicals Bfarm PeopleCats.Garden. 

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